Bill Whittle: “How to steal power” or “Turning the Constitution upside-down”
**Posted by Phineas
**Posted by Phineas
**Posted by Phineas
While we rightly agree to abide by the decisions of the Supreme Court as the final arbiter of what is and isn’t constitutional (barring changes via amendment), that doesn’t mean all its decisions are correct, or that its errors are without consequence. Among the more famous errors of the Court, consider Dred Scott v Sandford, which upheld fugitive slave laws; Plessy v Ferguson, which upheld segregation in state law; Buck v Bell, which upheld state laws mandating forced sterilizations; Korematsu v United States, which permitted the forced internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII; and the recent Kelo v City of New London, which made a mockery of the 5th Amendment’s takings clause.
You’ve now got your two liberal activist justices on the SCOTUS. I pray they are the only two you’ll get, and that the next SCOTUS retirement happens during a Republican administration.
Yes, according to the NY Daily News (via Memeorandum):
Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s SCOTUS confirmation hearings are underway. I won’t be able to liveblog any of it, but as usual, SCOTUSblog has that base covered. And, of course, C-SPAN has a live video feed of the hearings.