Posted on 06/28/2007 7:25:43 AM PDT by Publius Valerius
The Supreme Court split 5-4 in striking down voluntary integration programs in Louisville and Seattle today. The opinions were authored by the Chief Justice.
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That is because the 'conservatives' are not really moral conservatives, that is, seeing things as either right or wrong.
They are legal positivists who deal with the law as simply given, and base their decisions on how a particular law is formulated, not its moral rightness.
The Left, on the other hand, does see all issues as either right or wrong and will ignore clear Constitutional writing to impose their own view of morality on us.
We need to put men on the Supreme Court who understand that our nation was founded on the moral absolute of God given individualism found in the Declaration of Independence and all law needs to reflect that underling truth.
Partisanship gets the best of them, even when they’re charged with the responsibility to “judge with an unbiased eye”.
The Republican party needs to unite and back conservatives.
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