10-09-2018, 07:05 AM
(10-09-2018, 04:32 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(10-08-2018, 04:52 PM)Eric the Obtuse Wrote: The whole second amendment issue might come up, but it might not; we are probably not ready for that one in this 4T. The first question is whether we can add a couple of justices, and impose term limits. If so, then perhaps the Heller interpretation could be overturned, and we go back to seeing gun rights as belonging only to members of well-trained militias, which in our time means the national guard and the cops, and end the interpretation that provides individual gun rights. That would be fine with me. It depends on how people will feel 10 years from now about the epidemic of mass shootings and gun violence unleashed by today's permissive laws. There's nothing constitutional that can be done about justices legislating from the bench that I can see. The constitution already defines their job, and they must mediate and adjudicate what the law means and apply the constitution and precedent to it and to today's needs in specific cases, rather than imposing strict literalism.
But not soon. Enough people have held on to the old values to skewer the result of the constitutional convention. I think you would go further honoring the old values rather than to try to coerce a change.
That sums up progressive. In their own way they are every bit the dictatorial assholes the Jerry Falwell crowd ever were.
Pat Buchanan has a pretty good idea about why the Dims are so freaked out about the Supreme Court. It was their ultimate weapon in getting their agenda through and they don't what to do without the Court dictating to the rest of us. Buchanan is no libertarian but he still makes good points that are worth considering.
The left has always been a nasty bunch of authoritarians.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises