...On Monday, when asked about predictions that the Supreme Court might strike down the health care law, President Barack Obama used terms normally invoked by conservatives to attack decisions they don't like.
"For years, what we've heard is the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint - that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law. Well, this is a good example," said President Obama.
He said it would be unprecedented to overturn a law passed by a majority of Congress....
To get this right, one has to realize President Obama was FIRST answering a question he was asked. Then Jerry Smith decided he needed to silence the President and his Justice Department.
Jerry Smith has not right to attempt to silence the President while the Right Wing strict constructionists have done nothing BUT run at the mouth.
When the Right Wing complains about judges it is just a matter of political rhetoric, but, when a Democratic President has a legitimate reason to speak to an audience about his point of view, it is called on the carpet...
...by the REAL Activist Judges, isn't that right Jerry!?!?!?
"For years, what we've heard is the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint - that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law. Well, this is a good example," said President Obama.
He said it would be unprecedented to overturn a law passed by a majority of Congress....
To get this right, one has to realize President Obama was FIRST answering a question he was asked. Then Jerry Smith decided he needed to silence the President and his Justice Department.
Jerry Smith has not right to attempt to silence the President while the Right Wing strict constructionists have done nothing BUT run at the mouth.
Bush makes mischief on "activist judges" (click here)
June 12, 2006When President Bush rails against "activist judges" these days in support of a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, the word mischief-maker comes to mind.
The president is fully aware that the issue has no chance of clearing Congress, let alone winning approval of three fourths of the states. Even zealous Republicans in the Senate agree.
His motives are transparent. First, he wants to demonstrate to social conservatives in the GOP that he is with them and not a lame duck. And with November elections loooming, he wants to fortify the Republican base and dare Democrats to vote against an issue easy to demagogue.
The dominant theme of the president's recent speech was that judges were guilty of "legislating" from the bench on this issue. It is a favorite line of his in naming judges who are strict constructionists of the Constitution–as he sees it.
One wonders what Bush, if he were president at the time, would have said about judges in 1954 when the high court, headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, voted 9 to 0 to end segregation in public schools. Bush was only 8 at the time....
...by the REAL Activist Judges, isn't that right Jerry!?!?!?
McCain Criticizes ‘Activist Judges’ (click here)
May 6, 2008 1:48pm
ABC News’ Bret Hovell reports: During a speech designed to reach out to conservative voters on the issue of judicial responsibility, presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain took Democratic candidate Barack Obama to task for not voting for the confirmation of John Roberts to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
During a speech at Wake Forest University, McCain said Sen. Obama, D-Ill., "likes to talk up his background…as someone who can work across the aisle to get things done. But when Judge Roberts was nominated, it seemed to bring out more the lecturer in Senator Obama than it did the guy who can get things done. He went right along with the partisan crowd, and was among the 22 senators to vote against this highly qualified nominee," McCain said.
"Apparently, nobody quite fits the bill for an elite group of activist judges, lawyers, and law professors who think they know wisdom when they see it — and they see it only in each other," McCain said of Obama and the Democrats who voted against Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito....
CITIZENS' UNITED, JERRY!
CITIZENS UNITED, BUBBA!!!
