The Rogues In Robes

[marmar]

from OurFuture.org:



The Rogues In Robes
By Isaiah J. Poole

June 27th, 2008 - 10:49am ET


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You may differ on the merits with the supporters of the District of Columbia's gun ban, who were handed a major defeat by the Supreme Court on Thursday. But progressives can't deny this: The conservative bloc on the court is a rogue band of ideological thugs who care less about strict constructionism and all of the other conservative legal buzzwords they use, but are all about furthering a conservative political agenda.

Only when Justice Anthony Kennedy swings in the opposite direction, as he did when the court rebuked the Bush administration's stance on habeas corpus rights for terrorist suspects, is there a remote chance that the march of right-wing and corporatist ideology gets thrown off-stride. The graphic at right, from People for the American Way's SaveTheCourt.org, brings that point home.

Note what E.J. Dionne pointed out in his latest column about the nature of the gun ban ruling:

Conservative justices claim that they defer to local authority. Not in this case. They insist that political questions should be decided by elected officials. Not in this case. They argue that they pay careful attention to the precise words of the Constitution. Not in this case.

His column concludes with that hope that "this decision opens people's eyes to the fact that judicial activism is now a habit of the right, not the left, and that "originalism" is too often a sophisticated cover for ideological decision-making by conservative judges." .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/rogues-robes

[pt22]

1. Tough shit, grabbers.

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[jody]

2. Thanks SCOTUS for the D.C. v. Heller opinion supporting the Democratic Party.

[midnight]

3. This data needs to be repeated to the extent that whenever

one hears that term "judicial activism". Repeat this....... Conservative justices claim that they defer to local authority. Not in this case. They insist that political questions should be decided by elected officials. Not in this case. They argue that they pay careful attention to the precise words of the Constitution. Not in this case.This data needs to be repeated to the extent that whenever