Posted on 07/03/2015 8:47:57 AM PDT by B Knotts
Following last week’s controversial U.S. Supreme Court rulings on Obamacare and gay marriage, voters believe more strongly that individual states should have the right to turn their backs on the federal courts.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 33% of Likely U.S. Voters now believe that states should have the right to ignore federal court rulings if their elected officials agree with them. That’s up nine points from 24% when we first asked this question in February. Just over half (52%) disagree, down from 58% in the earlier survey. Fifteen percent (15%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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Fifty percent (50%) of GOP voters now believe states should have the right to ignore federal court rulings, compared to just 22% of Democrats and 30% of voters not affiliated with either major party. Interestingly, this represents a noticeable rise in support among all three groups.
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Isn’t this what the whole constitutional concept of federalism was about in the first place?
The states need to take back their “rights”.
They absolutely do!
C’mon states. Step up to the plate. Recognize usurped authority, and take appropriate action. Your citizens will support you. Do what is right, not what is convenient or safe. Have courage.
On this 4 of July Celebrate States Right’s and Independence, Federalism.
Yes! That is the only thing that might get me to respect my country again.
Yes.
Hence the need to remove all vestiges of the Confederacy.
Yes, the liberals running the courts are definitely out of control.
Does Obastard send in the national guard or regular Army to arrest the OK legislature? What happens?
Remove the quotation marks and you’ll have it.
What the recent CBF brew-ha was really all about.
Who would have ever guessed prior to 2008 that we would have come to this?
The next time I go in for jury duty I am going to tell the judge flat out that I have no respect for our judicial system, it is corrupt to the core, that the Supreme Court has no fidelity to the constitution or the laws of the states or the federal government, so I cannot in good conscience sit in judgment of my fellow citizens who are accused of breaking some law when it is clear that the words of the law will have no meaning whatsoever to the courts.
And if asked by the judge if I will follow his instructions I will say flatly that since the courts refuse to follow the instructions of the laws and the constitution, I will not abide by his words any more than the Supreme Court abides by the words of the constitution.
The principal result of judicial activism is that it has destroyed our system of checks and balances and has destroyed the very judicial system that they act under.
That should poison the whole jury pool.
Let these judges find an impartial jury when the court system is filled to overflowing with judges who show no impartiality at all to the laws they are sworn to uphold.
Fed govt should not be ruling on state matters. Flawed system
It is up to us to spread the word, that there can be no law while Federal employees are inclined to suddenly after hundreds of years of practice and understanding to ignore or rewrite law written & authorized by the people.
This is not how A republican Constitution works, much less how democracy is suppose to be. A judge is suppose to decide a case UNDER the law not pervert the law itself to say whatever he wants in defiance of hundreds of years of proven practice to the contrary. That is called lawmaking a power reserved to the people.
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