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To: BobL
My tolerance for SCOTUS ended with Roe vs. Wade and, given that I graduated law school, should have ended with Marbury vs. Madison in which John Marshall, the Chief Justice of the time (the dead hand of discredited Hamiltonian federalism) performed the power grab of all time in America by claiming for SCOTUS the "power" to declare acts of the legislature "unconstitutional" in order to substitute SCOTUS' judgment (and ultimately the judgments of inferior courts) for that of our elected legislators.

The answer, however, is NOT to elect Trump of all people (or anyone else) as a man on a white horse to run roughshod over all American constitutional provisions, traditions, rights and anything else not in accordance with his infernal id.

When the very same John Marshall in the twilight of his disastrous career as a judge on a white horse, running roughshod over etc., told Andrew Jackson that he could not send the Cherokee on the Trail of Tears from Georgia and the southeast to Oklahoma, Jackson observed that he took essentially the same oath as had Marshall and had the authority as POTUS to ignore Marshall on the subject. Jackson also invited Marshall to call out Marshall's army against Jackson if he disagreed.

In a similar vein, an authentically CONSERVATIVE POTUS such as a Cruz or several of the others could provide for basic due process evidentiary hearings limited to the question of citizenship or other rights to remain as defined by Congress, have Congress enact legislation depriving the federal judicial system of jurisdiction over immigration and a wide variety of other subjects (baby-killing, fudge-packing posing as "marriage," insert your pet issue here, etc., etc.) and thereby putting the judiciary in its place as originally intended.

This is generally referenced as "checks and balances" and was part of the original plan.

52 posted on 09/14/2015 10:27:00 AM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline: Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Society/Rack 'em Danno!)
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To: BlackElk

All your ideas are fine, as long as BOTH SIDES play by the rules. Beyond that, what makes you think that Congress will LIFT A FINGER for Cruz - even the Republicans there HATE HIM - and the Democrats will not do a damn thing for ANY REPUBLICAN - they’re tasting fascism and they like it, A LOT.

So, in today’s America, we’re now well beyond what you suggest, it can NEVER WORK. We should have fought back through the political process when we had the chance...now it’s simply too late.

So, I’ll guess we’ll disagree here - I want this country back, and if it means our side has to “bend the rules” for a while to get there, then SO BE IT.


53 posted on 09/14/2015 3:02:01 PM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'profile' page))
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