Conservatives face liberal 'firewall' on Supreme Court.
The not so supreme court is even more powerful than obobo...easy fix...STOP PAYING THEM! like Jefferson did...they'll go away mad...but they'll go away.
“Congress needs to strip the courts of power to strike down immigration laws. What I don’t want is people to take this victory and say we should have the courts deciding immigration because it worked in our favor here. The political ramifications here are very narrow. It doesn’t force Obama to start deportations and it doesn’t strip affirmative benefits from others who have received amnesty.
“Congress needs to strip the courts of power to strike down immigration laws. What I don’t want is people to take this victory and say we should have the courts deciding immigration because it worked in our favor here. The political ramifications here are very narrow. It doesn’t force Obama to start deportations and it doesn’t strip affirmative benefits from others who have received amnesty.
The weak link, as usual, is the voting public is largely ignorant of this authority vested in Congress and hence don't elect candidates with this direction in mind. Plus the libs would see it as threatening one of their favorite modes of transforming this country.
What will I have to conclude in November of 2016?
If courts are striking down immigration laws, then write those laws to comply with the Constitution. Or amend the Constitution to allow them.
While we're at it, the Constitution should be amended to fix the size of the Supreme Court so nobody can "pack" it.
The dictator and war criminal destroyed states rights and murdered 600,000 Americans in his unneeded, traitorous war against individual liberty.
Prior to that time state governments ignored the politically appointed idiots on the supreme court as they should have. The court was never given power to decide constitutionality. They looted it.
The constitution says nothing about the power of the court to dictate constitutionality and the states once ignored the dictatorial "judgement" of those unelected lifetime bureaucrats.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/08/t...
That power was stolen from the people by the court in the 19th century just like the power of jury nullification has been stolen by federal judges.
We should, however, take away from the Court its power to make nonsensical rulings about the meaning of important words and phrases, as (for instance) "interstate commerce" was reinterpreted in Wickard v. Filburn to include all kinds of behavior that are neither interstate nor commerce. But I don't know how we might either overturn that decision or purge the Court of people who agree with it, given that both Congress and the general public (if given recall power in the future) are unlikely to go along with changing it back.
Unfortunately, giving any feds the authority to interpret law is too much power. Its the same as expecting a federal judge to fairly decide a disagreement between the feds and an individual. Letting them judge when they are being challenged is naive. They have too much self interest in the outcome to judge fairly.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/08/t...
I thought of responding, but changed my mind, that NO ONE has the right to enslave another...do we not have the right and perhaps the responsibility to stand up to that?