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Does SCOTUS Make Laws?
That is I guess a matter of opinion.
How so?
Does SCOTUS Make Laws?
That is I guess a matter of opinion.
Well I thought it was your opinion that SCOTUS made a law.How so?
In retrospect, it is evident that constitutional interpretation and application were made necessary by the very nature of the Constitution.
The Founding Fathers had wisely worded that document in rather general terms leaving it open to future elaboration to meet changing conditions.
As Chief Justice Marshall noted in McCulloch v. Maryland, a constitution that attempted to detail every aspect of its own application "would partake of the prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. . . . Its nature, therefore, requires that only its great outlines should be marked, its important objects designated, and the minor ingredients which compose those objects be deduced from the nature of the objects themselves."
Well I thought it was your opinion that SCOTUS made a law.
It is my opinion they interpreted the Constitution.
The Court and Constitutional Interpretation - Supreme Court of the United States
Do Tea Partiers get mad when they see elected representatives spending their time and tax-payer funded salaries and administration costs to pass a law that will never hold up in court?
Or when the U.S. House votes to repeal the ACA (Obamacare) more that 30 times. Think of all that waste, the hours wasted, the support staff time wasted, when they could have been doing something productive and not just for future political ads. Does this get the Tea Party conservatives upset when they think of all tax-payer $$ gone to waste?
Do Tea Partiers get mad when they see elected representatives spending their time and tax-payer funded salaries and administration costs to pass a law that will never hold up in court?
Or when the U.S. House votes to repeal the ACA (Obamacare) more that 30 times. Think of all that waste, the hours wasted, the support staff time wasted, when they could have been doing something productive and not just for future political ads. Does this get the Tea Party conservatives upset when they think of all tax-payer $$ gone to waste?
That sure came out of left field.
So you are omniscient, and know how every vote and judgment will turnout before it happens? If you believe something is right, shouldn't you stand for it, regardless of the odds of winning?
Does SCOTUS Make Laws?
That is I guess a matter of opinion.
All I hear from the Tea Party is how much the Dems waste tax dollars on programs and spend, spend, spend. It costs money to run a state house or federal legislature. No one on the right has complained about the cost for 30 votes to repeal the ACA. A law upheld by SCOTUS. A law the republican speaker calls "the law of the land".
This source calculates the cost of the house of representatives at 1.9 million a day in salaries and 1.7 million in allocations per day per member.
A hollywood film crew can be calculated out to thousands per minute, millions per day, but at least they deliver (most times) an entertainment product for distribution and profit. What did we get for all the money spent on the 33 votes to repeal the ACA?
According to your own source the salaries come to $207,044 a day... Just a tad less than 1.9 million
You are correct, that's 1.9 Millon per vote.
Thank you for pointing that out.
So, multiply 1.9Million x 33 votes to repeal the ACA and you get.... 62,700,000 Million wasted on votes to repeal the ACA. Showboating and political theater paid for by the American tax payer.
Where's the outrage? Where's the Tea Party rally to toss the wasteful bums out??!!
It depends on whether a person agrees with their decision as to whether the Supreme Court is making law or enforcing the Constitution or Bill of Rights. If a person agrees, they are enforcing the Constitution and Bill of Rights. If not, they are treasonous renegades who hate the Constitution and are ego-manaics.
Arkansas to ban abortion at 12 weeks, earliest in nation - chicagotribune.com
I don't know the exact wording, but wasn't Roe v. Wade vague in the age of the fetus? I think this is borderline in compliance with the SCOTUS ruling and will probably end up going to the SCOTUS.
As someone who is pro-life/anti-abortion I will take every inch my side can get.