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To: ColdOne

He’s right. The Constitution is no fire-wall if 5 on SCOTUS making a ruling on whatever.


18 posted on 12/17/2016 9:02:25 AM PST by AU72
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To: AU72

USSC can interpret but I don’t believe they can arbitrarily change, add or remove anything from the Constitution.

That would take convening a Constitutional Convention.


147 posted on 12/17/2016 10:30:03 AM PST by billyboy15
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To: AU72; billyboy15
He’s right. The Constitution is no fire-wall if 5 on SCOTUS making a ruling on whatever.
Fear of the people is a firewall against SCOTUS - or any lower court - even accepting such a case.

Hillary wouldn’t even make a good test case for it, since she although she got more votes than anyone else, she didn’t win a majority of the popular vote.

In any case, SCOTUS is no more constitutional than the Electoral College is; you are talking constitutional crisis time. Not “constitutional crisis” in the sense that journalism spoke of during the latter days of the Nixon Administration, but constitutional crisis as in, well-intended patriots with guns trying to figure out who it is their duty to shoot.


172 posted on 12/17/2016 11:55:56 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which ‘Liberalism’ coheres is that NOTHING ACTUALLY MATTERS except PR.)
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To: AU72

“The Constitution has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it”. Lysander Spooner, No Treason (1870)


181 posted on 12/17/2016 12:33:43 PM PST by Wolfie
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