steve-bARF ALERT!!!!
Posted on 02/01/2010 9:33:43 AM PST by steve-b
The nation owes a substantial debt to Justice Samuel Alito for his display of unhappiness over President Obama's criticisms of the Supreme Court's recent legislation -- excuse me, decision -- opening our electoral system to a new torrent of corporate money.
Alito's inability to restrain himself during the State of the Union address brought to wide attention a truth that too many have tried to ignore: The Supreme Court is now dominated by a highly politicized conservative majority intent on working its will, even if that means ignoring precedents and the wishes of the elected branches of government.
Obama called the court on this, and Alito shook his head and apparently mouthed "not true." His was the honest reaction of a judicial activist who believes he has the obligation to impose his version of right reason on the rest of us.
The controversy also exposed the impressive capacity of the conservative judicial revolutionaries to live by double standards without apology.
The movement's legal theorists and politicians have spent more than four decades attacking alleged judicial abuses by liberals, cheering on the presidents who joined them in their assaults. But now, they are terribly offended that Obama has straightforwardly challenged the handiwork of their judicial comrades.
There is ample precedent for Obama's firm but respectful rebuke of the court. I know of no one on the right who protested when President Ronald Reagan, in a 1983 article in the Human Life Review, took on the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision of 10 years earlier....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
steve-bARF ALERT!!!!
“These things lie in the lap of the gods.”
LOL!
A tribute!
To steve-b: A more useful idiot I have never met.
I am glad to see the positive response I have received from my fellow Freepers. This and Steve’s abscense is a good thing.
I also agree that Steve must have finally went over that imaginary line that he danced on for years.
Hey Steve-b. so you finally got the Zot! You knew you were a troll. We knew you were a troll. So therefore you got the Zot.
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