What Makes this Supreme Court Different from Other Supreme Courts?
Bill Schneider – Reuters
Here’s what last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decisions signify: Old America has conceded to the New America.
The New America is the coalition that came to power with President Barack Obama in 2008 and gave him the winning majority. It’s a coalition of groups marginalized for most of U.S. history: racial and religious minorities, immigrants, young people, gays, single mothers, working women and unchurched Americans who claim no religious affiliation….
The Old America capitulated. But not without protest. Justice Antonin Scalia offered this scathing dissent: “If I ever joined an opinion for the court that began: ‘The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons . . . to define and express their identity,’ I would hide my head in a bag.” …
The backlash brings to mind an old Arab proverb: “Dogs bark, and the caravan moves on.” The dogs are barking. But this caravan is moving on.
Sketch shows former Michigan Solicitor General John Bursch defending state laws during a Supreme Court hearing on same-sex marriage on April 28, 2015. Justices from left are, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer, Antonin Scalia,, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito Jr. and Elena Kagan. (AP)
Supreme Court Disasters
Thomas Sowell – Townhall.com
The Constitution of the United States says that the federal government has only those powers specifically granted to it by the Constitution — and that all other powers belong either to the states or to the people themselves.
That is the foundation of our freedom, and that is what is being dismantled by both this year’s Obamacare decision and last year’s ObamaCare decision, as well as by the Supreme Court’s decision imposing a redefinition of marriage….
When any branch of government can exercise powers not authorized by either statutes or the Constitution, “we the people” are no longer free citizens but subjects, and our “public servants” are really our public masters….
This decision makes next year’s choice of the next President of the United States more crucial than ever…. Can the Republicans — or the country — afford to put another mushy moderate in the White House, who can appoint more mushy moderates to the Supreme Court?
Supreme Court Sides with the People, Not the Politicians
The Editors – The Baltimore Sun
Today the Supreme Court reinforced the principle that the voters should choose their representatives, not the other way around, in upholding an Arizona law that puts the task of drawing congressional district boundaries in the hands of an independent commission rather than the legislature….
Much of the majority opinion, written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and of the main dissent, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, center on the question of whether the term “legislature” could encompass a ballot initiative in a state whose constitution allows that form of lawmaking….
More pertinent, though, are the portions of Justice Ginsberg’s opinion affirming the propriety and indeed the wisdom of taking the power to draw district lines out of the hands of self-interested politicians…. Quoting the Federalist Papers, Justice Ginsberg noted the founders’ desire to make sure that members of Congress would have “an habitual recollection of their dependence on the people.”
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 26, 2015 that the U.S. Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry in a historic triumph for the American gay rights movement.
The Court Follows Its Heart and Completes the Secularization of America
Dennis Prager – National Review
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on the redefinition of marriage seals the end of America as the Founders envisioned it….
Beginning with the Supreme Court’s ban on non-denominational school prayer in 1962, the same-sex-marriage decision has essentially completed the state’s secularization of American society. This is one thing about which both Right and Left, religious and secular, can agree. One side may rejoice over the fact and the other may weep, but it is a fact….
And what has replaced Judaism, Christianity, Judeo-Christian values, and the Bible? The answer is: feelings. More and more Americans rely on feelings to make moral decisions. The heart has taken the place of the Bible….
Any religious conservative who does not acknowledge homosexuals’ historic persecution or does not understand gays who desire to marry lacks compassion.
But let’s be honest. This lack of compassion is more than matched by the meanness expressed by the advocates of same-sex marriage. They have rendered those who believe that marriage should remain a man-woman institution one of the most vilified major groups in America today.