Supreme Court Justice Appointment

[Mr VJP]

I saw this and thought it sums up the SCOTUS judicial appointment perfectly.  I couldn't agree more.

 

Jonah Goldberg: "All the Constitution says is that there has to be a Supreme Court. (Even the existence of lower federal courts is entirely optional). There's nothing holy, never mind constitutionally sacrosanct about the number nine. Congress could decide tomorrow to make the Supreme Court a body of 72 people picked randomly from the phonebook (so long as the president was the one doing the random picking and the Congress approved them). When the president, a former teacher of constitutional law, says, 'the Constitution is pretty clear' about the need for hearings on his pick, he's not telling the truth. He's playing politics. The same goes for all the Republican senators who say the Constitution is clear that they don't have to hold hearings if they don't want to. The issue isn't whether the Constitution is clear. The simple fact is that the Constitution is silent. And where the Constitution is silent, politics is supreme. ... We've invested in the Supreme Court powers never imagined by the framers. And when I say 'we' I mostly mean progressives. The growth of the administrative state and the encroachment of federal law into every nook and cranny of local life has been a century-long project of the left. It should be no surprise that when we bequeath monarchical powers to nine — or eight — lawyers, the battle for succession to one of the nine thrones will be ugly. Indeed, it's surprising it's not uglier."

 

[Grouse]

Exactly!

[hunter49]

  Obama,s man Merrick Garland, Not good for our 2nd amendment !  Look this A- hole up & check out his record!

[philoshop]

Garland is considered a "moderate". What that means in DC today is that he's not likely to fall completely off the left side of his chair with every decision.

An acquaintance of mine nailed the strategy for this guy: Hold the hearings for the next 8 months to keep the Liberals from squawking about 'obstructionism', then either reject or appoint based on who wins the presidential election.

[Grouse]

Garland has been nominated for a single purpose.  He is ideologically opposed to the Heller decision which stated the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right to own firearms.  That decision prevents the government from going completely to the extreme in it's drive to eliminate and ban all types of civilians arms ownership.  Semi-auto firearms, both handgun and long gun, are the objective here.  That, however, is just the beginning.  

 

All types of registration requirements would follow, as well as other restrictions like storage requirements, ownership limits, possession limits for ammo, permits and permit fees.  Legal carry, in any form, would be eliminated.  If he is sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice, the 2nd Amendment will no longer be a right of the people, it will be a privilege from the government, granted only to those the government feels can be trusted to follow orders.  This is something everyone who owns firearms now, be they hunter, target shooter or collector, should be writing their Senators about today.

 

 

[Rattler]

Saw this today.  It sums up the current complaints about the appointment process perfectly.

 

"If judges confined themselves to acting like judges, instead of legislating from the bench, creating new 'rights' out of thin air that are nowhere to be found in the Constitution, maybe Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominees would not be such bitter and ugly ideological battles. Chief Justice Roberts himself practically repealed the 10th Amendment's limitation on federal power when he wrote the decision that the government could order us all to buy ObamaCare insurance policies. When judges act like whores, they can hardly expect to be treated like nuns. Politicians, journalists and judges should all spare us pious hypocrisy."

Thomas Sowell

[philoshop]

Hillary railed yesterday that without an(other) Obama appointment to the SC that Progressivism in the US would be set back. She said it like that would be a bad thing. WTF.