Posted on 06/28/2015 6:52:36 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT
Friday, June 26, 2015
To: Friends & Supporters
From: Gary L. Bauer
I read through a lot of angry messages about the Supreme Court in my email this morning. I'm not surprised. Unfortunately, we're stuck with Obamacare for now.
Simply put, elections have consequences. And right now we're suffering through the negative consequences of elections that took place almost ten years ago when Democrats took control of Congress.
But here's the good news: A Republican president and a Republican Congress CAN REPEAL OBAMACARE IN 2017!
And we can also CHANGE THE COURT!
The men and women we elect to the White House and the Senate nominate and confirm the judges who serve on our courts, including the Supreme Court.
Four justices of the Supreme Court are 76 years-old or older.
The odds are overwhelming that the next president we elect will fundamentally change the ideological balance of the Supreme Court.
This issue alone would be worth every effort you can possibly make and every dime you could possibly invest between now and next November to ensure that we take back the White House and hold the Senate!
The men and women we elect to the White House and the Senate nominate and confirm the judges who serve on our courts, including the Supreme Court.
Four justices of the Supreme Court are 76 years-old or older.
The odds are overwhelming that the next president we elect will fundamentally change the ideological balance of the Supreme Court.
This issue alone would be worth every effort you can possibly make and every dime you could possibly invest between now and next November to ensure that we take back the White House and hold the Senate!
That is SUCH comforting news
I hope a real conservative gets elected to the Nevada Senate seat currently held by Dingy Dirty Harry.
That would be a start, because their other Senator, Heller - R, isn’t conservative, either.
If elections have consequences, why are conservative issues getting voted down since the ‘pubs got that US Senate majority? We were doing better holding the line before that happened.
Bauer's point is ...
WE CAN CHANGE THE COURT ... and I'm going to sleep tonight with THAT on my mind.
at least somebody in Massachoosie opposed Elena Kagan on her confirmation vote. I guess it wasn’t you.
knarf, you are leading the revolution!!!
People are making this much too complicated, and are trying to pressure two of the least responsive branches of the government (Judicial and Executive), when the whole problem is completely and entirely under the control of Congress to begin with.
The Supreme Court can only hear cases on appeal from State courts, or from inferior Article III courts, to the extent that Congress permits.
Article III §2: "...the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make".
So true.
Buchanan on Our Judicial Dictatorship
“When Congress enacted the Defense of Marriage Act, Bill Quirk urged it to utilize Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution, and write in a provision stripping the Supreme Court of any right to review the act.
Congress declined, and the Court, predictably, dumped over DOMA.”
http://buchanan.org/blog/judicial-dictatorship-7010
The Marriage Protection Act
“No court created by Act of Congress shall have any jurisdiction, and the Supreme Court shall have no appellate jurisdiction, to hear or decide any question pertaining to the interpretation of, or the validity under the Constitution of, section 1738C or this section.”
The legislation passed the House by a vote of 233 to 194. The Senate referred the bill to the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 7, 2004, where it died in committee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_Protection_Act
It’s a nice thought, but it borders on a pipe dream.
Hillary is likely to be the next president. Beyond that, unending mass legal immigration (not to mention amnesty for illegals) is changing the demography ever more in favor of the left, and making a conservative victory in the electoral college less and less likely.
Also, the GOP is likely to lose the Senate in 2016. At a minimum they’ll lose 2 or 3 seats, leaving them unable to invoke the nuclear option and break a Dem filibuster if a Republican wins the Presidency and nominates a conservative judge. If the Dems retake the Senate in that scenario, they will vote in lockstep to defeat a conservative nomination. The left plays for keeps. They don’t have people like Lindsay Graham who votes for Sotomayir and Kagan, knowing full well that they’ll vote for irreversible decisions that are counter to things Graham claims to believe in.
This Sup Court is the best we are ever likely to have again, and that is a depressing thought.
go back to your dreams and your pipe.
I think it is good that you have decided to stay out of it.
I thought Thomas was the Bork replacement nominee...
Apparently I had misconstrued the timeline.
He succeeded judge Bork on the court of appeals.
However, the Bork incident didn’t change this ruling.
Judge Bork died in 2012.
Obama would have replaced him with another far left moonbat anyway. And the GOP Senate would have rolled over per usual.
And the symbolism of the first black president will be renewed in 2017 for the first female president. Nothing I see can stop it.
Would it have mattered though? If Congress had passed jurisdiction stripping legislation what would have stopped legal challenges to that law? And then ultimately what would have stopped 5 Sup Court justices from saying that Congress’ action overstepped its Article III Section 2 powers?
Orrin Grant Hatch is known for his cheerleading of liberal nominees, but people in UT don’t know that.
Bauer probably means well, but he is a rosy optimist like his old boss Reagan. There is no room for optimism.
What path do you see to right this? Congress declined to even try and exercise its Artcile III Section 2 power when Clinton would have been afraid to veto it had it been part of DOMA. The Senate shelved it when the GOP had all of Congress and a Bush in the White House in 2004. It’s almost as if the party leadership didn’t want to win this one and just played conservative Christians for fools...again.
As to future elections, what did I say that was wrong? It’s not going to get any easier with immigration importing hundreds of thousands of future democrats every year.
Congress can take marriage out of the purview of the federal courts
you don’t know that
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