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The New THOMA$ REPORT on Tuesday, June 02, 2009 4:23:57 PM
That’s what he has said he wants in his new Supreme Court Justice. Unfortunately, “empathy” is not a requirement for a Supreme Court Justice. Knowledge of, and “reverence” for, the Constitution IS. There is only ONE requirement for a law to be passed on by the supreme Court: it must conform to the provisions IN the Constitution. It must be CONSTITUTIONAL. “Empathy” has nothing to do with it. If this new justice rules on ANY other basis, she will be violating her oath to “defend the Constitution” and should, as should all other justices who rule otherwise, be impeached and removed from office. Unfortunately, that cannot happen. Except for major malfeasance in office, Supreme Court Justices are appointed for LIFE. There is no REAL limits upon them. They can rule any way they want and we can’t do anything about it, except to petition our “weak-kneed congress” to overrule them. Does anybody remember this ever happening? So what Obama is doing is appointing a “dictator in black robes.” Some justices have ruled things that are patently unconstitutional to BE constitutional! Such as the McCain-Feingold Act. All rulings should REQUIRE the Justices to sate just which paragraph in the Constitution they used in ALL rulings, with nothing else allowed. No foreign law; no "empathy, no nothing. (Just common sense)