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The Patriot Post Chronicle 4-4-2012
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The Foundation
"The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges will be too firm in resisting public opinion, and in defence of private rights or public liberties; but, that they will be ready to yield themselves to the passions, and politics, and prejudices of the day." --Joseph Story
Editorial Exegesis
"Someone will have to remind President Obama the Supreme Court is a co-equal branch of government, part of a system of checks and balances designed to rein in precisely the kind of runaway government exhibited by his administration. Our community-organizer-in-chief has a different opinion. 'Ultimately, I am confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress,' Obama said at a news conference with the leaders of Canada and Mexico. ... This is precisely what the Supreme Court is designed to do -- determine the constitutionality of laws passed by democratically elected legislatures and Congress. Surely the constitutional law professor has heard of Marbury v. Madison, the 1802 case that formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution. It was also the first time in Western history a court invalidated a law by declaring it 'unconstitutional.' Such an action is not unprecedented. ... By one estimate, the Supreme Court has struck down 53 laws between 1981 and 2005 alone. The president speaks of a law passed by a 'democratically elected Congress' yet it was a bill no one had read and which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said we had to pass to find out what was in it. The fact is, most of the rules and regulations are written by unelected bureaucrats authorized by a bill that refers not to 'we the people' but to 'the secretary shall determine.' ... To say the bill passed 'a strong majority' of a democratically elected Congress is an overstatement. The bill passed the House with a vote of 219-212, a majority of seven, with 34 Democrats defecting. ... This isn't the first time President Obama has lectured the Supreme Court. In his State of the Union address on Jan. 27, 2010, he shamefully scolded the justices on national television for 'having reversed a century of law' in a ruling in which the court was protecting the freedom of political speech enshrined more than two centuries ago in the First Amendment. It will be poetic justice if in answering the administration's assertions on the constitutionality of ObamaCare, the court will echo Justice Samuel Alito's reply that night: 'Not true.'" --Investor's Business Daily1
Upright
"Can I tell you what I'm a tiny bit sick of hearing? Maybe you are too. Some version of this: 'Conservatives are hypocritical to root for the Supreme Court to overturn the health-care law. For years, conservatives have griped about interference by the courts. And now they're hoping that a handful of unelected, black-robed individuals will do their work for them?' Oh, come on: What we've objected to, all these years, is judicial activism -- judge-made law. The usurpation of the legislative role by judges. We have not, to my knowledge, objected to the striking down of unconstitutional laws. We are not hostile to a separation of powers." --columnist Jay Nordlinger
"The margin of passage has never been a factor in the Supreme Court's review of any law. That's simply not a part of American jurisprudence. In fact, if Mr. Obama believes what he says, he ought to be very satisfied with the validity of the Defense of Marriage Act, which passed in 1996 by a whopping 275 margin in the House and by 71 votes in the Senate." --The Washington Times
"One of the greatest sins of Obamacare is actually that the president decided to pursue legislation that would fundamentally change the country even though he didn't have a strong majority for it in Congress. And 'judicial activism' generally refers to rulings based on emotion and political views instead of the Constitution and precedent. The judges' questions about the health care law went right to whether it violated the Constitution. There was no 'activism' on the order of, say, finding previously undiscovered meanings in the Constitution to justify a decision. To say that ruling against an unpopular law barely passed by Congress violates 'judicial restraint' would seem a strange new interpretation of the term." --columnist Keith Koffler
"The U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics found that between the years 2001 and 2005, nine-out-of-ten black murder victims were killed by other blacks. ... The DOJ also determined that homicide is the leading cause of death for black males between the ages of 15 and 34. ... In 2005 alone 8000 black Americans were homicide victims. If one assumes that measurement has remained relatively constant on an annual basis, it means that 56,000 blacks have been killed over the last seven years. For perspective's sake, 5,000 American troops were killed during combat in Iraq over the same period of time. ... The media and racial demagogues are ably convincing black Americans to believe that their real problem is racist America; that the white-controlled 'System' is what really threatens their lives, when this is the furthest thing from the truth. This is the lesson from the Trayvon Martin tragedy." --columnist Arnold Ahlert
"The violence and mayhem that disproportionately afflicts the African-American community is part of a society-wide disorder. ... That disorder is family breakdown, and no discussion of violence or murder or victimization is informed without reference to that overwhelming fact. Why do African-Americans, with 12.6 percent of the nation's population, account for 50 percent of the murder victims? Because fatherlessness is most pervasive among blacks. ... In 2012, we reached a grim milestone: The majority of births to women under the age of 30 are now outside of marriage. Among blacks, 72 percent of births are to unmarried women. ... The result of this adult folly is chaos, misery and often violent death for kids." --columnist Mona Charen
Insight
"The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it." --American writer H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
"Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity." --American author Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
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The Demo-gogues
Shut up, he explained: "I am confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress. I just remind conservative commentators that for years what we have heard the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint. That an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law. Well, this is a good example and I am pretty confident that this Court will recognize that and not take that step. ... As I said, we are confident that this will be over -- that this will be upheld. I am confident that this will be upheld because it should be upheld. And again, that's not just my opinion, that's the opinion of a whole lot of constitutional law professors and academics and judges and lawyers who have examined this law, even if they're not particularly sympathetic to this particular piece of legislation or my presidency." --Barack Obama
Are you serious? "I think that it is the crown jewel. It is the greatest achievement." --Nancy Pelosi on ObamaCare |
