Posted on 06/27/2015 1:38:11 PM PDT by Bluewater2015
In the wake of Friday’s historic Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality, Republicans did not hold back their rage – but few politicians went as far as 2016 candidate Gov. Bobby Jindal.
The Louisiana Republican, who launched a longshot bid for the presidency last week, suggested that the 5-4 ruling, which made same-sex marriage legal throughout the nation, was cause for disbanding the entire Supreme Court.
“The Supreme Court is completely out of control, making laws on their own, and has become a public opinion poll instead of a judicial body,” Jindal said in a statement on Friday. “If we want to save some money, let’s just get rid of the court."
“Marriage between a man and a woman was established by God, and no earthly court can alter that,” he added.
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Congress has the right to impeach any court member for acting badly. I know going against the constitution is acting badly. When will the congress do its job??
“We wouldn’t have liked it if Obama came in and dismissed the court. We simply can’t do that.”
FDR did it. He promised to stack the deck if they didn’t do as he demanded.
Wonder what you’ll find in your mouth after Hillary gets elected?
I’d settle for 1/100th of that...
Course 1/50th would resolve lingering issues. LOL
Kagan for sure. She was Obama’s solicitor general, she’s on his legal team.
Exactly. Why worry about the Dems using strategies against us that they have already used?
Somebody on the court is talking to the white house or they wouldn’t have been so clearly prepared for the ruling.
Exactyly. The White House just ‘happened’ to have rainbow lights all ready to go on Friday night?
Idiotic suggestion.
Ever notice the eGOP claims devastating consequences for ANY action suggested, so they do nothing?
First of all, FDR couldn’t have done it by himself.
I have no idea if he could have gotten Congress to do it with him.
I don’t remember the particulars, but I do remember that he threatened to increase the size of the court. Once again, how much success would have had in that? I don’t know.
His actions / intentions are part of the basis for why I urge such caution in tweaking the court. Any tweaking gives the other side an excuse to do it.
Right here now you go all the way back to FDR. In 2100, someone would go all the way back to now if we did it.
Yep. Pre-emptive surrender seems to be the GOP’s go-to strategy. Was the leadership infiltrated by the French secret service or something?
And the people gave us the presidents who put the dweebs into office. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
He's making a mint right now.
I'm trying to avoid that. But if your goal is just to produce manure then by all means go with your Trump/Jindal ticket. If your goal is to beat Clinton and achieve results then go with Ted Cruz and whoever he picks to run with him.
I made some grammatical errors in that so here we go again.
I also wanted to state, I wasn’t meaning to take you to task. My wording may have sounded like it. I realized what you said was true and there wasn’t any reason to take you to task.
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First of all, FDR couldn’t have done it by himself.
I have no idea if he could have gotten Congress to do it with him.
I don’t remember the particulars, but I do remember that he threatened to increase the size of the court. Once again, how much success would HE have had in that? I don’t know.
His actions / intentions are part of the basis for why I urge such caution in tweaking the court. Any tweaking gives the other side an excuse to do it.
Right here now you go all the way back to FDR to mention the other side wanted to do it. In 2100, someone would go all the way back to now if we took measure to change the court.
My advocacy would center on Roberts and his clearly overlooking the flawed legislation to pave way for give Obamacare a pass illegally.
The man should be removed on that basis. An impeachment would be the way to go.
Maybe a campaign saying that we no longer need the House & Senate since the USSC does whatever they want might get the attention of some career politicians.
Judges Thomas & Scalia are the only ones I’d keep, at this point.
I like Bobby Jindal a lot. I hope he makes it into the debates.
Isn't that what the whole mess comes down to in the first place? Cowardice in congress? They're afraid, yet too invested in power and money and narcissism to risk doing anything to set them apart from the herd, so all they can do is bunch together and rely on perfecting their camouflage so the predators can't single them out.
Yes, but he wasn’t suggesting that we get rid of the Supreme Court...just that pointing out that if the Court is simply a rubber stamp for the zeitgeist, aka, the Democratic Party, we could save some money and get rid of it because it’s not doing what it was intended to do.
It would require a constitutional amendment, and the American people won’t stand for those.
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