dc_dux, thank you for your last post. Believe it or not....I do have mixed emotions about posting such strong objections against the candidate who I believe I have no choice but to vote for....as the best hope for maintaining the supreme court as a branch that is not, as was shown in the habeas ruling, last week, hell bent on ruling itself into irrelevancy, with a non (anti?)-judicial philosophy that defers predictably to the judgment of the executive and legislative. I think Roberts made the argument, last week, that there is no longer a justification to keep his court open and funded.
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http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/dail...amo-prisoners/
"Today the Court strikes down as inadequate the most generous set of procedural protections ever afforded aliens detained by this country as enemy combatants," Chief Justice Roberts wrote. "The political branches crafted these procedures amidst an ongoing military conflict, after much careful investigation and thorough debate."
Chief Justice Roberts also questioned whether the majority's decision should be counted as a win for the detainees.
"The majority merely replaces a review system designed by the people's representatives with a set of shapeless procedures to be defined by federal courts at some future date,"...
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Is there any set of circumstances where John Roberts would think it was appropriate to declare an action by the executive or "people's representatives", unconstitutional, if transferring habeas from the courts to the executive, is not such a circumstance? He calls the future determinations of the lower, federal courts, "a set of shapeless procedures". By his criteria, why pay his salary, why have a supreme court, at all?
It follows that I want the candidate who I vote for, to win, but not at any cost, although my effort in this thread makes me feel like I'm sawing through the tree branch I am standing on.....
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Originally Posted by Willravel
....I call that "Dharma Dew" or perspiration from enlightenment.
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Isn't it ironic that I am the one so strongly viewed as "too partisan"? I'm doing the same thing in reaction to this outrageous, bi-partisan "Op", as I try to do in any affront to my sensibilities.
Ironically, the Obama defenders here, and defenders of the democratic leadership and of the bill they drafted and rushed through the house....are generally regarded as much more "reasonable" than I am.
I think they think they are, too!