Recent Supreme Court decisions show that the Supreme Court is ONE VOTE away from being totally out of control. We are ONE VOTE away from abolishing the death penalty (99% probability, if a Democrat President gets to replace any of the four "conservatives" now on the Court, or Justice Kennedy)--despite the sanctimonious hypocrisy of Obama's meaningless statement that he "did not agree" with the decision prohibiting the death penalty for child rapists (see my blog entries yesterday and today).
We are ONE VOTE away from eliminating the Second Amendment from the Constitution.
In fact, we are ONE VOTE away from what amounts to a DICTATORSHIP of the judiciary, imposing the policy preferences of far left justices on the rest of us.
Obama, if elected, will provide that vote by appointing justices just like those 4 now willing to abolish the death penalty and the Second Amendemnt (replacing the elderly leftists who retire with the same type, and replacing any conservatives with the same type of leftisst). Yesterday's Supreme Court decision in favor of child rapists (Kennedy joined the leftists) shows where we are headed.
P.S. You might wonder whether replacing a presently leftist justice with a conservative will lead to the imposition of conservative policy preferences on the country--making it solely a matter of POWER, with no principle involved either way. If you wonder that, you do not understand what is going on here. Say Roe v. Wade were reversed, and states allowed to pass laws against abortion on demand in all stages of pregnancy. Does this IMPOSE the policy preferences of conservatives? Of course not. It merely reinstates the issue to the DEMOCRATIC PROCESS, where it should have been all along. As I have repeatedly said, leftist Democrats do NOT believe in democracy. Leftist Democrats similarly want to SUBVERT DEMOCRACY, and impose a dictatorship of the judiciary, on any number of issues--includnig abolishing the death penalty, imposing gay marriage (as they have done in California and Massachusetts), making it impossible to deport illegal imigrants or to deny them government benefits, forcing us to give "rights" even to FOREIGN terrorists (earlier Supreme Court decision this month), and a host of other things.
Did not the Second Amendment decision"imose" conservative policy preferences to overturn a democratically passed law? Nope. THIS particular "policy preference" was SPECIFICALLY set forth in the Constitution. We, as a country, adpoted it when the Constitutioin was enacted, and the Second Amendment ratified. That is NOT true of the leftist attempts to impose their policy preferences on the country--policy preferences often contrary to the policies in effect when the Constitution (or Amendments) were adopted, and which no one at the time imagined would have the effect the wannbe DICTATORS of the left now want to twist them into meaning. Even on the Second Amendment, it is still the LEFT tlrying to impose their views--this time on the CONSTITUTION--different from the plain meaning of the Second Amendment itself. Even if you wanted to abandon the concept of the Supreme Court determining the meaning of the palin language of the Constitution (as distinct from using vague language to impose a dictatorship of the judiciary, this would leave conservatives solidly on the side of democracy. All you have to do is consider things like school prayer, and posting the Ten Commandments in public places, to realize just how far leftists have taken decisions away from the people. Nope. The ONLYL danger here is of a LEFTIST dictatorship of the judiciary. There is NO danger (now, as distinguished from 1900-1935) of a conservative dictatorship of the judiciary. Even NINE conservative justices would do nothing but return/leave issue like abortion and homosexual marriage to the PEOPLE--whre such issues belong.
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