Supreme Court

Fire of Liberty

"If the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court . . . the people will have ceased to be their own rulers."

Abe Lincoln

Mark Steyn has written yet another good piece in The Chicago Sun-Times on how the elites of this nation tend to cause bigger problems via their inteference. This time, Steyn has directed his eagle-eye on the nutty decisions of various swing-vote justices in the US Supreme Court. Whether its expanding "the takings" clause beyond the Constitution's intent to condemn an eldery lady who's lived in her beautiful home in Conn. since 1917 for a Phzier office complex because it will bring in more tax revenue or declaring that you can have the Ten Commandments outside of a courthouse but not inside, the "Supremes" have demonstrated how wishy-washy, hold-your-finger-in-the-air justices can wreak havoc on our nation and the Constitution. The only way to avoid such wacky rulings from the Supreme Court is for President Bush to appoint justices with a proven devotion to strict constructionism or Constitutional orginalism of Scalia or Thomas. Yeah, Bush might like Alberto Gonzalez and the job he's done in Texas and as AG but he's not going to risk his base and the future of the country in the hands of someone lacking the mettle and paper trail of Scalia, Thomas or even the Chief Justice. Another generation of squishy justices like Kennedy, Souter and O'Connor re-writing the Constitution for the "times" is something that this nation can ill afford.

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