10-02-2020, 02:39 AM
The Bill of Rights contains some pretty basic values. Rights should not be added or subtracted from the bench. The Founding Father had a mechanism for change, and it has been ignored. Presidents have deliberately chosen Supreme Court justices who will follow political agendas rather than interpret the text or the intent of the authors. The result is a very broken legal system.
Scalia and Ginsburg were apparently friends, even if pursuing different legal agendas. Scalia would look at the original intent and meaning of the text. Ginsburg would pursue every excuse to believe the Founding Fathers were not prejudiced against women having political power. At least both trends were legal rather than political. We have had too many decisions where the Court will vote according to the political agenda of the president that appointed the justice. The president and senate are motivated to encourage selecting Supreme Court justices who will legislate from the bench. Depending on the president, this may mean rights are invented which would have been considered foul at the time the Constitution was invented, which includes both the liberal rights for the people and the conservative rights for the corporation.
I will renounce both. People who cheer their faction's contempt for the Constitution are reprehensible.
This does not mean we should't have a pretty busy 'never again' period coming up.
Scalia and Ginsburg were apparently friends, even if pursuing different legal agendas. Scalia would look at the original intent and meaning of the text. Ginsburg would pursue every excuse to believe the Founding Fathers were not prejudiced against women having political power. At least both trends were legal rather than political. We have had too many decisions where the Court will vote according to the political agenda of the president that appointed the justice. The president and senate are motivated to encourage selecting Supreme Court justices who will legislate from the bench. Depending on the president, this may mean rights are invented which would have been considered foul at the time the Constitution was invented, which includes both the liberal rights for the people and the conservative rights for the corporation.
I will renounce both. People who cheer their faction's contempt for the Constitution are reprehensible.
This does not mean we should't have a pretty busy 'never again' period coming up.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.