From The Great Surber's Blog... to Gd's Ear?

( Did Obama pass the Bar? )

 

President Obama’s little temper tantrum over the Supreme Court voting down his unconstitutional takeover of the health insurance industry may have awakened a sleeping giant — the Judiciary."

 

 

 

Now then, back to Surber:

.... The president’s animosity toward the Constitution is well-known among conservatives, who said this in a 2001 radio interview:

If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it I’d be OK

But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted, and the Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf.

And that hasn’t shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that.

 

What sort of 40-year-old American who is not a socialist blathers on about “negative liberties”? He wants unlimited government. That’s socialism. Judge Jerry Edwin Smith called him on that perverted view of constitutional government. Expect more of these confrontations, not less as Barack Obama has chosen anger, hate and spite as his re-election theme.

 

That bit in the title about Gd's Ear does not apply to that last line, okay?  Okay.

 

Comments

[Tom Glennon]

Today I again heard a reporter refer to Obama as a former law professor. He was an adjunct (guest) lecturer, mostly discussing the Alinsky principles, not constitutional law. If the media cannot (or will not)get this simple fact correct, is it any wonder that they don't accurately cover anything he does or says?

[Mannie Sherberg]

Agreed, Obama wants "unlimited government," but he wants something more than that: omnipotent government. And he's close to having both. He's already treating the Congress as if it doesn't exist -- and now he's claiming the appellate courts have no Constitutional role. That leaves us with a one-branch government with unlimited power. What I can't figure out is what he intends to do after they raze the Supreme Court building. It looks to me like the perfect site for a big-box store -- but I suspect they'll erect a big monument to the One instead.

[attack on Iran]

SCOTUS has stepped in and said "this far, but no further".

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[scp]

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