Obama, through his DOJ has stated emphatically that he did not mean
what he said!!!!
On Apr 6, 8:20 am, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Supreme Court on trial
> By Brent Budowsky - 04/04/12 02:41 PM ET
>
> President Obama is absolutely right about this: If the Supreme Court
> rules the healthcare bill unconstitutional, it would be an overreach
> that would be an extreme example of judicial activism that violates
> the most core principles of what is called conservatism and, I would
> argue, would lead to a destructive historical break point in the
> history of the United States Supreme Court that would tarnish forever
> the reputation of the chief justice and the conservative majority of
> justices for centuries to come.
>
> Last week I wrote that never before in the history of the nation had a
> Supreme Court reversed the popular vote for president; never before in
> the history of the nation had a Supreme Court ordered a state, against
> its will, to stop counting popular votes, with the result determining
> the electoral vote count in a way that negates the popular decision of
> the people; and never before in the history of the nation had a
> Supreme Court so deformed democracy that it virtually legalizes the
> buying of elections by interests with huge amount of money that can
> dominate and destroy the will of the vast majority of the people of
> the nation.
>
> These actions by the court make a mockery of the time-honored notions
> of judicial precedent that the chief justice himself promised to
> uphold during his confirmation hearings. They make a mockery of the
> notion that courts should be impartial adjudicators of the law, not an
> aggressive intervener in partisan politics. They make a mockery of the
> core notion of the American idea that is under attack even without the
> intervention of the court, and under even greater attack because of
> it, that we are a nation of laws in which the people rule and not the
> factions that the Founders warned us against but which find such favor
> with the current court majority.
>
> J'accuse: The Supreme Court is on the brink of putting itself on trial
> in the eyes of the nation, and certainly with much of the nation that
> vehemently disagrees with the court's view that America is a nation in
> which the money rules over the people and that free speech is a
> property that can be bought by those who have the most money and
> thereby destroyed by those who do not.
>
> Chief Justice John Roberts is a brilliant and charming man, but he is
> a man with a hard ideological agenda who is taking the court in
> dangerous and in some important ways unprecedented directions. The
> chief justice might be a moderate and temperate man in a personal
> sense, but he is a conservative movement man who is taking the court
> in directions that help one political party over another in ways that
> violate core principles of judicial precedent, and core principles of
> conservative judicial philosophy that warn against judicial activism
> that the current court majority has taken to radical and extreme
> levels in decisions such as Citizens United.
>
> I find it ironic, outrageous and profoundly troubling that a Supreme
> Court majority of five men would join and at times lead an ideological
> attack on laws and programs that benefit women. This is unbecoming and
> unwise for a partisan party in the legislative and executive branches.
> It is radical, unprecedented and outside of American judicial
> tradition when a Supreme Court majority of five men wage an
> ideological crusade that places laws and programs benefiting women, by
> result if not design, under attack by the judicial branch while under
> attack by Republican partisans in Congress.
>
> It appears the court majority is determined to usurp and destroy
> traditional rights, prerogatives and responsibilities of the
> legislative and executive branches. It appears that this court
> majority knows no such thing as the traditional judicial notion of
> avoiding political decisions; indeed, the court majority is
> increasingly dominating national elections and the justices act as
> though they are expert campaign managers while their decisions wreak
> havoc on the electoral process.
>
> What is next? Will the court majority overturn the Voting Rights Act?
> Will the majority endorse voter suppression using the same
> states'-rights argument it mocked in Bush v. Gore? Will the court next
> attack Medicare, Medicaid and insurance coverage for pre-existing
> conditions and overturn Roe v. Wade? Will every election in the coming
> decades be preceded by election-eve Supreme Court decisions in which
> factions using their fortunes to buy elections wins, and voting rights
> loses?
>
> My warning to the Supreme Court majority is this: Be careful. Stand
> down from extremism. Uphold the law but respect the prerogatives of
> the legislative branch, the executive branch and the people of the
> nation.
>
> Be warned: One more overreach and the Supreme Court will be on trial,
> in the eyes of the people the court serves and in the eyes of
> historians and future generations who will agree that the court should
> uphold the law but has become a partisan and ideological warrior
> fomenting another civil war.
>
> Budowsky was an aide to former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen and Bill Alexander,
> then chief deputy majority whip of the House. He holds an LL.M. degree
> in international financial law from the London School of Economics. He
> can be read on The Hill's Pundits Blog and reached at
> brent...@webtv.netThis e-mail address is being protected from
> spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
>
> More:http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/brent-budowsky/219995-supreme-c...
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
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