Re: Change you can believe in, Yeah

by Cato Wed Apr 08, 2009 2:43 pm

ziggy wrote:
You use the word opinion as if the only people capable of understanding the US Constitution are people who have attended law school.

No. People who have graduated from law school have opinions, yes. But unless they are Judges- especially Judges of appeals Courts- their opinion is of little or no more practical importance than yours or mine.

Only until the public wakes up and demands their removal from office or removes them themselves.

by Cato Wed Apr 08, 2009 2:45 pm

ziggy wrote:
Thats all fine and good, but the second the courts add to or take from the US Constitution, they have legislated. For example, their rulings upholding McCain and Feingold's infringment of free speach was was a matter of legislation.

No. If that is what the Court did- uphold McCain-Finegold- it simply upheld already existing congressional legislation.

They upheld unconsitutional legislation. They used the bench to further an agenda, call it what you want, they legislated fromt he bench.