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The Spectacle Blog
She won’t deliver her actual opening statement until later this afternoon, but the White House has already released excerpts of Elana Kagan’s remarks. From what they’ve released, it comes off as careful boiler plate, such as:
“The idea is engraved on the very face of the Supreme Court building: Equal Justice Under Law. It means that everyone who comes before the Court - regardless of wealth or power or station - receives the same process and the same protections. What this commands of judges is even-handedness and impartiality. What it promises is nothing less than a fair shake for every American.
Read more excerpts here.
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Nick| 6.28.10 @ 2:10PM
The four stinking liberals on the U.S. Supreme Court voted against the U.S. Constitution today, in the ruling against the Chicago gun ban.
Liberals don't care what the Constitution says, or any law for that matter. They only care about getting their way, no matter what it takes. They will lie, cheat, and steal to get what they want.
The KAGAN will be no different. Remember the RINOs who vote for her, when they come up for re-election, and vote for their primary challengers.
Nate| 6.28.10 @ 6:09PM
Nick --
The four liberals didn't vote "against the U.S. Constitution."
The voted with a tradition of interpretation of the Constitution that has been around for a long time.
The second amendment may very well BE intended as an individual right, but the Founders sure had a funny way of putting it. They COULD have written this: "Congress shall pass no law prohibiting the right of the people to keep and bear arms."
But that's NOT what they wrote. Instead, they linked the right to bear arms to need for state militias.
Another problem is that this is one of the amendments that has not been "incorporated" because of a FEDERALIST impulse in the courts to allow the states -- particularly municipalities -- to set their own gun laws.
I'm not very sure what to think about the 2nd amendment. Erring on the side of individual liberty is probably the right thing to do, but I don't think that necessitates any single reading of the 2nd amendment, unless you're a rank and shallow ideologue. The idea that liberals "don't care what the Constitution says" is vapid and simply inaccurate. The fact is, people like you don't care about the complexity of the these issues or the debates surrounding them. You want some tidy, easily digested slogan, and unfortunately for you, the Constitution doesn't work that way. The founders assumed a posterity in which men could still think and read.
naterade| 6.28.10 @ 7:09PM
as long as you think its vapid i know i can trust in it. 127 days till your ass whupping.
lakewoodbob| 6.29.10 @ 2:08AM
Nate, you are a simple minded liberal. The Bill Of Rights did not establish our rights, but just to affirm them to preclude future misunderstandings.
"On every question of construction let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying to determine what meaning can be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed." - Thomas Jefferson.
The Constitution enumerates the powers of the Federal Government not the Rights of the People!
The four reprobates on the supreme court voted most demonstatively against the Costitution!
AMENBRO| 6.29.10 @ 5:36AM
NATE YOU IGNORANT DLUT
Please are you able to concieve an O-RIG-In-AL thought??
Or do you have a password to the mailserver for those who don't & download your TRITE OPENING STATEMENTS such as the SLAB HAM JAWED oyster schucker from near Worecster?
Nick| 6.29.10 @ 1:38PM
Nate,
Instead of regurgitating liberal talking-points about the U.S. Constitution and the Second Article of Amendment, why don't you try reading the actual words of the Constitution and comprehending them.
The Second Article of Amendment clearly states "[...] the right of the [PEOPLE] to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." The preamble portion about a "well regulated militia" lists no right or power granted, or retained, to the several States.
This is ignorant, liberal soothsaying trying to wrench a meaning that is not there. Like finding "penumbras" and "emanations." Do you know the difference between the regular militia and the select militia, Nate?
"Congress shall pass no law prohibiting the right of the people to keep and bear arms." - Nate
All this would do is stop the FEDERAL government from legislating on keeping and bearing arms. The several States would still be able to infringe on the right. That is why the Framers used the words "the right of the [PEOPLE]." This meant no governing entity (federal, state, county, municipal) could stop the PEOPLE from owning and carrying firearms.
This stupid "well regulated militia" argument, that the states can regulate gun ownership, is a rather new one, in the past 40 years of gun control sophistry.
If you liberals would actually bother to read the U.S. Constitution, or even a book or two on the subject, you would find that Article I, Section 8, gives Congress the power "[t]o provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia [...]."
The only power the several States had, regarding the militia, was to appoint officers and train the militia according to the standards set by Congress.
Yet, you constitutionally illiterate liberals claim the words "[a] well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State," really mean that the States can regulate the militia, and therefore gun ownership. Even though, after the Second Article of Amendment was adopted, the Congress kept on "regulating" the militia.
Do I need a secret decoder ring from a box of Cracker Jacks to find this State power, Nate?
KsPlains| 6.28.10 @ 2:41PM
Re: Read more here...
Why? I try to keep informed, but I don't like wasting my time either. Like she's gonna sabotage herself in the opening statement? That's why I come here -- you read that stuff so I don't have to. ;-)
DIZZgusTED| 6.29.10 @ 5:31AM
Oyster schucking SOTO-MAY-WHORE minus the affirmative action Blank stare this obvious same sexer is..
This broad is a serious threat to any and all freedoms we hold dear.
HAAAAARVARD I'm smarter and more deserving of MY place at the table cause she feels so about herself attitude on ANABOLIC STEROIDS.
This EGO even surpasses OBAMMIES & HILLARY. She scares the absolute Ca Ca outta me. Not for my kids but for my kids' kids. Potential 40 years reigns of such as this seriously deluded indoctrinated-aire supreme along side of with her undoubted soon to be sycophant follower & possible future lover SM with thetailpipe cushion two axe handles wide can sit upon the bench for YEARS wrecking havoc on us SMALL PEOPLE.