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SCOTUS Pocus

6.16.08 @ 12:01AM

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SCOTUS may have just given the Conservatives (yes, with a capital C) a reason to hold their noses and vote for McCain: the stink of Stevens, Ginsburg, Souter, Kennedy, and Breyer's odious decision is a clear demonstration that the Court must be saved from the Left wing nuts. McCain is no friend to conservatives, but can the Right abrogate its responsibility and allow a President Obama to pick two or more Supremes? The medicine is indeed harsh, but it is better than dieing from gangrene.
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York

Can there be any more doubt that the leftist/Marxists have cast aside any pretense that they see themselves as Americans? Can there be any doubt that they have made a deal with the devil? Emanations, penumbras, extraordinary circumstances....? God help us, and God help our children and grand children.

When I heard the news of this cowardly act of treason, that's right treason, being perpetrated on us, I had to pull off the road as my hands were shaking and I was blinded by a rage I haven't felt since 9/11/2001. Isn't it enough the filth in the world wants to bring us down and destroy our way of life? This is just further evidence that the left is either made up of the dumbest bastards on Earth or maybe something even more sinister. I've never been a conspiracy theorist but I must say it certainly appears to me that the dems/leftists/Marxists in this country (and beyond?) are working hand in glove to ensure that this nation born of freedom and liberty is socialized, marginalized, and brought to its knees.

Arm yourselves while you still can, educate and inform your children, friends, neighbors; everyone in your sphere of influence. Americans must find a way to turn back this treasonous bent.

God Bless America,
-- Stuart Reed
Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan

John Tabin's "Lord Kennedy" captures the arrogance of our supreme lawyers in defying the clear intent of Congress on how detainees in the War on Terror are to be treated. Allow me to point out two things: First, "Swing voter Kennedy" would not be in charge of the U.S. government if swing voters had not put the Democrats in charge of the Senate. As usual, the Democrats pretend that all they can do is obey when the Supreme Court just happens to enact their agenda, so boldly that the Democrats could not vote for it and hang on to their seats. Kennedy and his four liberal justices knew they would and decided to strike now before the people can change their minds. Second, if this stands the so-called "so-called War on Terror" is over. Terror is again merely a criminal problem to be handled by police, closely supervised by lawyers, just like it was for eight years of the Clinton administration. Liberals have convinced themselves that the 9/11 attacks did not prove the failure of this approach. What could, one wonders?
-- D.M. Duggan

Once again the Supreme Court has decided that the writers of a law could not have intended the law to mean what the law said. They decided. Couldn't they just have asked the guys who wrote it just what they intended?
-- Robert Nowall
Cape Coral, Florida

As the Supreme Court extends its control of American military/legal policy by decreeing that detainees at Gitmo have much of the same rights as American citizens, the cry goes up about the purely political nature of the decision. This problem was ostensibly solved by laws that were passed by the Congress to try to ensure that detainees could be tried without being in open court where military tactics or intelligence methods were open to public scrutiny. But the left wing of the Court has decided that what the Congress specifically set out to do with the legislation is not what they set out to do. Only in the bizarro-world that is American jurisprudence could this happen.

My question is, where is the Congress on this? Why are they not standing up and putting the Court in its place? We elect the members of Congress to enact laws, not the Supreme Court, so why are the representatives so willing to cede their constitutionally mandated powers to 5 unelected members of the SCOTUS? When are they going to crawl from under their desks and stand up for their right to have their legislation stand even if a slim majority of the Court doesn't like it? It is not the SCOTUS that are cowards, because they are willing to rewrite the Constitution from the bench in broad daylight. No, it is Congress who are the cowards for not invoking their constitutional powers to limit the scope and reach of the powers of the SCOTUS.
-- Eric Edwards
Walnut Cove, North Carolina

The Supreme Court has nullified the votes of the American electorate.

The Supreme Court has nullified and mandated the laws of Congress.

The Supreme Court has taken command of the military.

Incrementally, the Supreme Court has obviated the Executive and Legislative branches as well as the will of the American people as determined by popular elections at all levels.

Though America was designed to be a representative democracy, I doubt the Founding Fathers expected nine to represent 300 million.
-- David Govett
Davis, California

While Bumble was right, "The Law is an ass," we are forced to observe that "The Supreme Court is Five Asses."
-- Jim Bjaloncik
Stow, Ohio

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