Supreme Court Disasters | RealClearPolitics
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When any branch of government can exercise powers not authorized by either statutes or the Constitution, "we the people" are no longer free citizens but subjects, and our "public servants" are really our public masters.
And America is no longer America.
The freedom for which whole generations of Americans have fought and died is gradually but increasingly being taken away from us with smooth and slippery words.
This decision makes next year's choice of the next President of the United States more crucial than ever, because with that office goes the power to nominate justices of the Supreme Court.
Democrats have consistently nominated people who shared their social vision and imposed their policy preferences, too often in disregard of the Constitution.
Republicans have complained about it but, when the power of judicial appointment was in the hands of
Republican presidents, they have too often appointed justices who participated in the dismantling of the Constitution -- and usually for the kinds of social policies preferred by Democrats.
Chief Justices appointed by Republican presidents have made landmark decisions for which there was neither Constitutional authority nor either evidence or logic.
The first was Earl Warren.
When Chief Justice Warren said that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal," he was within walking distance of an all-black public high school that sent a higher percentage of its graduates on to college than any white public high school in Washington.
As far back as 1899, that school's students scored higher on tests than two of the city's three white academic public high schools.
Nevertheless, Chief Justice Warren's unsubstantiated assumption led to years of school busing across the country that was as racially divisive as it was educationally futile.
Chief Justice Warren Burger, also appointed by a Republican president,...
...And now Chief Justice John Roberts, appointed by George W. Bush, gives the federal government the power to order us to buy whatever insurance they want us to buy.
...Can the Republicans -- or the country -- afford to put another mushy moderate in the White House, who can appoint more mushy moderates to the Supreme Court?
“On Friday, the peoples’ house was illuminated in rainbow colors,” O’Reilly said. “What about all the Americans who believe that a redefinition of marriage is not the job of the Supreme Court?”
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Schuyler Bailar was given the option of swimming on either the women’s team — for which he was originally recruited — or the men’s squad, after he came out as transgender and had had “transition” surgery.
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"Now we're being told that by taking down the Confederate Battle Flag that all will be right with the world. While Flip Wilson's Geraldine's character claimed "the devil made me do it," we're to believe that a flag made Dylann Roof murder five black people during a prayer meeting in a church.
Why the ambiguity?
"President Barack Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke on the phone on the night of the 2012 Benghazi attacks — but the U.S. State Department isn’t prepared to reveal the content of their discussion."
"We have often been told by gun control advocates that “nobody is coming to take your guns” and all they wanted were “common-sense” gun laws.
