It "bends the constitution when SCOTUS reads rights into the Constitution?" WTF???!!!

[elehhhhna]

Oh hell yeah, we sho don't want nobody reading some crazy, extra rights INTO the Constitution! The intent of the framers is very clear! Only old, landed, European-descended men are granted rights!


omfg

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

1. I can has context? n/t

[elehhhhna]

2. reep congressman to Sotomayor just now. sorry!

[elehhhhna]

3. also, isn't your brother named "Exxon Sachs Palin?"

[SleeplessInAlabama]

5. He's generally rambling

about how the SCOTUS is final arbiter and how their decisions can change the meaning of the Constitution.

[elehhhhna]

8. No, they cannot "change the meaning"...they interpret the meaning.

If the meaning were fixed and interpreted, we would not need a USSC at all.

[SleeplessInAlabama]

9. That was half my point n/t

[elehhhhna]

11. which half?

lol & WELCOME TO DU!

[SleeplessInAlabama]

12. Thanks

Half my point was that he was rambling, the other half was that he was stating that the SCOTUS can change the Constitution.

Didn't he learn the whole "legislative makes the law, executive enforces the law, judicial interprets the law" thing in grade school?

[elehhhhna]

13. duh, sorry.

got it.

[gratuitous]

4. That would be a travesty!

Such as, just as a f'rinstance, the right of paper ballots to the exact same treatment regardless of the differences in those ballots of registering voter intent over the right of actual human voters to have their votes counted.

Oh wait, we're talking Republican, so it's perfectly all right (even required) to talk crazy.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

6. And, don't get me started on

those fucking AMENDMENTS!

HOW DARE THEY!?!??!?!?!

I mean, WOMEN VOTING?

I call bullshit, and stand with the asshole who just said that about the Constitution.

Amen...............

[guitar man]

7. what a maroon

The Constitution doesn't grant rights...it places limits on government :eyes:

[provis99]

10. everything Alexander Hamilton predicted about rights is coming true

Alexander Hamilton was against the Bill of Rights, because he thought right-wingers would argue the small number of rights in the Bill of Rights are the only rights Americans have. Now it appears Hamilton was correct in his fears; apparently the only rights we have are those outlined in the Constitution, according to the mad dog right-wing.