Posted by
Boomer911 on Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:40:34 AM
While the U.S. Supreme Court has handed down some senseless and shaky decisions, long on ideology and short on precedent and constitutional deliberation, there has been occasion to celebrate. There is no doubt President Bush's additions of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito have done wonders in helping to balance a court that was on the verge of a tyrannical power-trip and helped to re-introduce "original intent" back to the court. One could only imagine what the Supreme Court would look like if Al Gore had been the one to win two terms and had his judicial nominees put on the court. But can't we say the same thing about an Obama presidency as well? There is speculation the next president will get to fill 2 to 3 seats on the Supreme Court. The question is, could our democracy withstand this shift from justices who believe in precedent and the Framer's original intent to those who do not use the U.S. Constitution as their guide, justices who have substituted our founding document for "public sentiment", political and philosophical ideologies, and "world views"? How can we claim to still have a democracy when the will of the people is superceded by judicial activism? We can already see this playing out in court rooms across America today and one wonders if the American people will stand for our founding principles or lay down to a new master and a new Obama court?
Barack Obama has already discussed his judicial philosophy in numerous lectures including one at the University of Chicago Law School where stated that ultra-liberal (socialist) Justice Ruth-Bader Ginsberg was a "very sensible judge". I think it is a safe bet Obama will nominate, if he is elected, justices who share his political ideology and use the courts not as they were constitutionally designed, but as a weapon to subjugate and push his liberal philosophy onto the American people. This has been the weapon of the liberals for decades as they know the American people would never pass their measures and endorse outright socialism at the ballot box, so they use the courts to bypass the will of the people leaving us only to wonder what happend to our country and her freedoms?
One cannot state enough how critical this falls election will be if for this reason alone. John McCain has already stated he will nominate based on their ability to interpret the Constitution and those who use that very document to arrive at their decisions and not political and philosophical winds. Our entire system of self government will be on the ballot this fall and I pray that America has the sense to take back what has been taken from them, the right to self govern.