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The Worst Ruling Since Dred Scott

Robert2086 Wrote: Jul 08, 2012 9:33 PM

The Supreme Court has been the strongest branch of government since 1803, Marbury v. Madison, except for one time, when Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation and had it ratified by Congress. What is called judicial review is the cause of all of these present difficulties. England did not have the same difficulty abolishing slavery because when James II was driven from the English throne, William and Mary stopped all interference with Parliament by English courts, which had been encouraged in interfering by the Stuart kings because it weakened Parliament. So when Parliament voted to abolish slavery in 1834, and the king signed it into law, the only way English courts were involved was in enforcing the new law.

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The Worst Ruling Since Dred Scott

Last week Chief Justice John Roberts blatantly ignored the Constitution and the law and purposefully rewrote Obamacare in order to rule it legal. He called Obamacare a "tax" instead of an individual mandate; he then proceeded to blithely expand the government's power to tax to encompass a tax on breathing, which is what Obamacare is.

Now I had warned conservatives years ago that Roberts was a rotten pick for the Supreme Court. "Roberts is not an originalist," I wrote in 2005. "There is nothing in his very short jurisprudential record to indicate that his judicial philosophy involves strict fidelity...

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