Legislating from the bench
I am so sick and tired of the Right claiming judges legislate from the bench, when in actuality the GOP want judges that do truly legislate from the bench.
Ok, case in point medicinal marijuana...... it was your GOP president that pushed it into the SC. It was your GOP attorney General that refused to listen to the will of the people in the states that voted to make it legal. Your GOP president and AG fought to legislate to make what a majority in some states said was ok, illegal. Approved legislation by the GOP president and AG (while publicly they cry how the bench has no right to.)
Another case, overturning Roe Vs. Wade...... the GOP want judges to overturn this, but it interferes with a freedom, and the state and localities' rights to choose if they want it. That is legislating from the bench..... making illegal an act of freedom on "moral" principles.
You can spin it all you want, but you are still making laws on a moral judgement to make something you find morally wrong illegal. Even though there will still be abortions, just illegal, back alley hackjobs now.
The eminent domain case, which was ruled to favor local laws and instead of the GOP saying thank you, and working to change the laws, they cry about how the bench legislated giving more power to government. You don't see any GOP congressmen or Governors saying they will work on a law that protects the citizens of their constuency from this....... do we?
So stop crying false tears about the SC. to me you just want the power and nothing more. You're ok with them legislating so long as it is what you agree with or are told by GOP talking heads to agree with.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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