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Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (Score:2, Insightful)
Only when the force is disturbed so much that it makes me think twice about their true allegiance...
(repost for prior botched title...)
Re:US is not the center of the world (Score:1, Insightful)
Don't be proud of your ignorance.
Re:Missing option (Score:5, Insightful)
If you live in the US they all involve you, whether that involvement is obvious or not.
Re:Only for the big cases. (Score:5, Insightful)
What are you smoking? It is typically the liberal wing of the court that favors big government, though in recent years neither side has been particularly friendly to certain aspects of the Constitution. Take a look at cases involving State's Rights; you'll find the more conservative Justices are far more friendly to them, as well as to the Bill of Rights as a whole. I think you drank a bit too much Kool Aid if you really believe what you wrote.
Waiting for SCOTUS to notice the 10th Amendment (Score:5, Insightful)
That is to say, I would like them to rediscover the fact that we live in a constitutional republic in which the federal government's size and power is limited to only that necessary to carry specifically enumerated powers [battleswarmblog.com].
Sadly, that does not appear to be in the cards anytime soon. It makes it too hard to hand out subsidies to cronies and buy off various interest groups with taxpayer money.
Re:Why follow the Supreme Court? (Score:2, Insightful)
The law as it stands now is transitory and fickle.
First, the SCOTUS doesn't write law, they interpret what it means. And their interpretation has certainly changed at times, but it typically takes decades. If it is transitory, it's not so transitory that you can expect to see many reversals within your lifetime.
What has been and will be decided by these 9 lawyers will appear to be the absolute rule that we must all live by, and by which we must bend our will. After all it is called the *supreme* court. However this is not so.
No one's saying that at all; your ridiculous straw man describes an oligarchy of 9 god-like beings. "Supreme" just means it's the final authority on what the law, as understood within the limits of the Constitution, means. In a world where the vast majority of citizens see cops only occasionally driving to work, virtually all law enforcement and regulation is actually handled by the individual's sense of right and wrong.
Sometimes it is because the law is being bent to political pressures rather than keeping to the standards of 'justice is blind'.
"Political pressures" is a weasel phrase that could mean anything, but I suspect it just means decisions that you don't like. And I'm sure you sincerely believe your ideas are all based on pure reason and you have no ideology.
Sometimes (unfortunately) the court bends to financial pressures and the decision favors the side that buys the better lawyers rather than poor justice.
Given that in a national case, you typically have an array of lobby groups on both sides, it's deep pockets vs deep pockets. Can you give an example of when this wasn't true?
Re:Missing option (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Waiting for SCOTUS to notice the 10th Amendment (Score:2, Insightful)
The constitution is a living document in the sense that you can amend it. Allowing judges to interpret it however they feel like is simply dangerous, anyone who feels that to be a good thing is naive.
Don't like something in the constitution? Move to amend the constitution; that is your only legitimate option.
Re:Waiting for SCOTUS to notice the 10th Amendment (Score:5, Insightful)
Which is why they included Article Five.
You remember that one, right? The one describing the amendment process?
The thing about the Tenth Amendment is that it was never actually amended away. Which gives it just as much legal power as, hypothetically, the First Amendment, or the Fourth, or the Fifth.
Re:Only for the big cases. (Score:4, Insightful)
Just so. Which is why I hope DOMA is struck down. Congress had no business passing that particular abortion....