Not that John's analysis isn't great, but some of this is so obvious, I'm stunned that Justice Kennedy can get this wrong. He must have the IQ of a squash.
Please, no insulting of the venerable squash on this thread. Some of us love squash. Thank you for your time.
I wasn't a mistake, it was intentional. These people are conscious, deliberate Gramsciam moles. Their intent is to deconstruct our Constitutional Republic.
I'm going to break ranks here and open myself up to many readers ire, but this is the result of a critical error in judgement by the Administration.
Congress (astoundingly, actually following the Constitution for a change) passed a law in 2005 removing this category of issues from the jurisdiction of the federal courts. No matter how much the media, Dems and the Left howled and shrieked, there was no legal reason for the President to "ask" the court to "clarify" the matter. The Supreme Court has now used this unnecessary and misguided attempt to "unite, not divide" to state unequivocally that they are accountable to no one.
It was a tremendous blunder, and if allowed to stand will have tragic consequences far exceeding any short-term political or electoral gain in the next election. It is even worse than President Bush's blunder in failing to veto the Constitutional obscenity that is the McCain/Feingold Campaign Finance Reform because he believed the courts would fix it.
The ruling should have been a citation of the section of Article III granting the authority for Jurisdiction to Congress; the law removing Jurisdiction on the particular matter from the courts; a citation that the matter in question fell within the description in the law; and a ruling that the court has no Jurisdiction, case dismissed.
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