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from a jewish and catholic only perspective
hardly representative of Americans
On Mar 28, 3:08 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> **
> New post on *Doctor Bulldog & Ronin*
> <http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/author/doctorbulldog/> We Are No
> Longer A Nation of Laws; We Are a Nation of Lefturd Lawyers and
> Judges<http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/we-are-no-longer-a-nati...>by
> doctorbulldog <http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/author/doctorbulldog/>
>
> *Erick Erickson does a good job this morning of putting things in
> perspective concerning the Supreme Court and the Left's madness; So, I
> thought I'd share a snippet of it with you all and then link on over to his
> website so you can read the whole thing:*
>
> *Sinners In the Hands of Anthony Kennedy*
> *The left cries foul as the right uses the federal courts to do as the left
> has done for years.*
> *Posted by Erick Erickson -
> RedState.com<http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/03/28/sinners-in-the-hands-of-anth...>
> *
>
> Yesterday the left descended into madness. The madness came early in the
> day. It happened shortly after 10 o'clock in the morning. Justice Anthony
> Kennedy opened his mouth and uttered his first question on the issue of the
> individual mandate. He asked, "Can you create commerce in order to regulate
> it?" The question, the second asked yesterday morning, bothered the left.
>
> As the clock approached 11, Kennedy spoke
> again<http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/03/27/kennedy_individual_...>,
> sending shockwaves through the legal community. He stated matter of factly,
>
> the reason this is concerning, is because it requires the individual to do
> an affirmative act. In the law of torts our tradition, our law, has been
> that you don't have the duty to rescue someone if that person is in danger.
> The blind man is walking in front of a car and you do not have a duty to
> stop him absent some relation between you. And there is some severe moral
> criticisms of that rule, but that's generally the rule.
>
> And here the government is saying that the Federal Government has a duty to
> tell the individual citizen that it must act, and that is different from
> what we have in previous cases and that changes the relationship of the
> Federal Government to the individual in the very fundamental way.
>
> It was the quote heard round the world. It is what the tea party movement,
> libertarians, conservatives, and so many private citizens have been saying.
> It was an expression of what every legal scholar on television has
> pooh-poohed as the troglodyte rhetoric of plebeians not educated enough to
> understand their own founding compact.
>
> That Justice Kennedy expressed something so obvious to so many Americans
> that so many well educated legal analysts have mocked for two years as an
> outmoded view of the constitution put forward only by hicks, rubes, and the
> racist middle class tea partiers not cool enough to defecate on police cars
> like the Occupy Wall Street hipsters should deeply, deeply trouble every
> radio station, newspaper, and television news network along with the
> American people.
>
> Just how out of touch are the people the news media relies on as legal
> experts used to help form both their and their audiences' opinions? More
> so, is it not abundantly obvious that legal experts let their own
> partisanship shape their opinions?
>
> All of this, however, overshadows a more important issue — how the hell did
> a constitutional, democratic republic come to depend on the whims of one
> man in a black robe who nobody ever elected to anything?
>
> Two years ago, Jan Crawford of CBS News noted the
> President<http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504564_162-20000226-504564.html>,
> in his State of the Union, deviating from modern precedent in those
> speeches to lash out at the United States Supreme Court.
>
> Mr. Obama, for the first time in modern history, took a direct shot at the
> Supreme Court in his State of the Union address, when he slammed the
> justices for their recent campaign finance reform decision. Six of them
> looked on — including the author of the opinion, key swing vote Anthony
> Kennedy — while Democrats jumped up to whoop and holler.
>
> Shortly thereafter the Democrats, without a single Republican vote, passed
> Obamacare.
>
> That Justice Kennedy yesterday raised a point that has been raised by so
> many non-lawyers is irrelevant to how the Supreme Court rules. All that is
> relevant is the President's insult two years ago. Why?
>
> [...]
>
> *CLICK HERE to continue reading this over at
> RedState.com*<http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/03/28/sinners-in-the-hands-of-anth...>
>
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