The American Spectator

J.C.Eaton| 6.25.12 @ 12:28PM

I think you overestimate the power of running against the Supreme Court, either as a permanent institution or as presently constituted. To do so gives the American voter more credit for perspicacity than that to which he is entitled. To most, the court is arcane, obscure, almost mystical. The voter rarely knows the names of half the Justices. He never hears them speak, sees them work, feels only the sting or benificence of their edicts. He wants instant gratification so badly he wouldn't bother to locate a decision and read it.. No, it takes a truly nuanced voter to appreciate both the power of the court and the wickedly important power in appointing its' membership. Libs will automatically vote as they're told. Best,

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Quartermaster| 6.25.12 @ 12:55PM

SCOTUS isn't partisan, it's lawless. It makes its decisions with only a nod at the highest law of the land and hasn't cared a whit about how they are viewed in terms of rule of law. They are simply one usurpation after another. rarely do they get anything right, and then it's normally for the wrong reason.

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Occam's Tool| 6.25.12 @ 2:17PM

Gotta support QuarterMaster 110% on this one. "Lawyers," as a set, overlap 95% with the set "Scumbags from the 9th Circle of Hell." There are many more scumbags than attorneys, but the set "Lawyers" is almost a complete subset of "scumbags."

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Thom| 6.25.12 @ 5:45PM

“An enduring weakness of Democracies is their lack of accountability…….”

What’s not to like about this ruling from the Federal Government’s point of view? The Court upholds their eminent domain in the matter but lets the “several states” waste time and resources checking the immigration status of over 10 million illegal aliens within the nation that the Federal Government simply ignores. By the same token the “several states” can tell its local governments and citizens that it is the “states” domain to protect its citizens and void any acts of self-defense by all those not on the payroll of the State. Kind of like DC where you can own a gun but you can’t defend yourself with it outside your home….

The Republic is all but dead…..

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Thom| 6.25.12 @ 6:11PM

My chief problem with the “Court” since I came of age has been that “it” does not pay respect to the integrity of the Constitution, ie; its overarching purpose to check government power. Ruling after ruling for the bulk of my adult life has been carried out like the Constitution is a cafeteria plan and can be sliced and diced at the detail level without doing fatal damage to the central purpose of having a Constitution in the first place.

A mass of ethnically identifiable people three times the size of the number of Germans that invaded Russian on June 22, 1941 are in this nation illegally and there is not a day that goes by that those said people don’t commit minor and serious felonies just to sustain themselves here.

You can’t sustain yourself here without committing some sort of document fraud and tax evasion. You can’t cash a “payroll check” without a legal form of ID and you can’t hold a job without committing fraud and tax evasion. People have to eat and it takes money spent every day on room and board just to stay here. A lot of money. What does the Court do? It pretends the “several states” don’t exist and can’t protect their citizens from rampant identity theft, fraud, tax evasion, etc.

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