[update below]
Now that the dust has settled on last week’s SCOTUS ruling on the ACA and it has become clear that it was less than a slam dunk for Obama and the Dems, here are a few items on how truly insidious the Roberts court is. First, the NYT had a very good editorial on Sunday on “the radical Supreme Court.” Then there was this op-ed in the NYT by Stanford law professor Pamela S. Karlan, on how the health care ruling provides “no respite for liberals.”
But above all, there is this very important article by Jedediah Purdy of the Duke University School of Law, “The Roberts Court v. America,” that appeared in the Winter 2012 issue of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. He discusses at length “how the Roberts Supreme Court is using the First Amendment to craft a radical, free-market jurisprudence.” There are many good quotes but I’ll pass on that. Just read the article, particularly if you’re concerned for the future of America. And do vote for Obama on November 6th, ’cause if Romney wins and appoints just one more justice, it will lock in the Court’s reactionary jurisprudence for at least a generation, if not more.
UPDATE: Jeffrey Toobin of The New Yorker has an analysis of Roberts and the ACA ruling here. He’s not impressed with Roberts’ legal reasoning
That the constitutionality of the A.C.A. was even called into question is testimony to how far the center of gravity in the American judiciary has shifted to the right. What’s more, five Justices, including the Chief Justice, found that Congress had exceeded its powers under the Commerce Clause when it passed the Affordable Care Act. Supreme Court opinions are usually thick with citations of prior cases, but the key section of Roberts’s opinion, which was seemingly inspired more by Ayn Rand than by John Marshall, has almost none…
Well, well, it seems that one of my faithful readers is not happy with my blog posts 😦
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2902444/posts
To: Cincinna; afraidfortherepublic; mojo114; seenenuf; LucyT; Think free or die; DollyCali; …
Guess they don’t need a warrant – no 4th Amendment protection in France.
Scroll down for the take on America by leftists.
This crap from Arun Kapil who is American born, living in France, teaches at a Catholic University. and who VOTES IN FOREIGN ELECTIONS!
He is constantly trashing America for “stop and frisk” and proclaiming that the US Constition is a “flawed document written by white slave owners” rambling against guns and RKBA, and begging people to vote for Barry, trying to scare us with the VRWC boogyman.
He uses his blog to trash everything American, from the work ethic to football.
He fancies himself an
expert on the US Constitution and is hell-bent on reelecting Barry.
French blogs like this
And this, an attack on the Roberts Court.
THE ROBERTS COURT v AMERICA
This is sadly typical, not only of the Socialist and communist view in France but the view of a growing number of Americans living in France trashing their own country.
France just isn’t what it was. In a recent poll, 92% of French want to see Barry reelected.
All my family and friends, and those of other FReepers, and our fellow FReepers in France must be the other sane 8%.
6 posted on Tue Jul 03 2012 22:00:36 GMT+0200 (Romance Daylight Time) by Cincinna ( *** NOBAMA 2012 ***)
Hey Cincinna, thanks for the free publicity 😉
Well, now, it seems that Arun is a FReeper: a member of the conservative web community, FRee Republic. He writes in a post on Free Republic “I found it interesting and in tune with my views and opinion”
FReepers treated Arun and his anti-American views with tolerance and respect. Wish he would show the same.
Arun’s post at Free Republic on University of Jihad in Pakistan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1394335/posts?page=27#27
Arun’s post on Free Republic in full:
To: xxxxxxx
“This guy signed up today, posted a thread with a comment criticizing America”
Yes, i did sign up today. I was browsing through the net and found this site. I found it interesting and in tune with my views and opinion, so i signed up. The comment was not ment to criticeze the US, just an opinion.
27 posted on April 30, 2005 5:54:44 PM EDT by arun
There are a lot of Aruns out there, particularly in south and southeast Asia. This one ain’t me, that’s for sure.