This should make your jaw drop if you support the constituio

WaveCameCrashin
WaveCameCrashin Posts: 2,929
edited July 2010 in A Moving Train
I don't care if your a liberal Democrat, a Libertaian, a Republican,conservative or an Independent. If this doesn't concern you or get your attention nothing will. What do you think this woman will do when the EPA'S over reach on the delegation of authority and the Individual mandate under the Gov run Healthcare bill reaches the Supreme court ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSoWGlyugTo

So here we have a Supreme court Nominee when asked by a senator if that the gov has the power to dictate what we can and cannot eat if that is Un-Constituional,and she wont answer the question.

Here she was also in front of the supreme court supporting a law that empowers the gov to ban books. Under certain circumstances. Although she believes the current gov would do so. Yeah sure :roll: They already tried in the citizens united case.
http://www.breitbart.tv/kagans-own-word ... nforce-it/


IMO this is a sad day. :(
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  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Shaking my head...speechless.
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  • CJMST3K
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    It ended more abruptly than I had hoped, but she certainly didn't want to answer the question.
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  • mikepegg44
    mikepegg44 Posts: 3,353
    edited June 2010
    I think the basic question was rather silly in general, I would have liked to see her answer to his follow up, or clarification as it were, to how far she would think the commerce clause can be taken. It doesn't seem to me like she would support a law like that, but I think the important part of her answer was that judges should not strike down laws simply because they think they are dumb. It holds pretty close to what I would expect a judge to say. Not to ajudicate based on feelings, but rather based on the gov'ts express/implied power . Based on previous posts I would think you would support that type of bench behavior.
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  • blackredyellow
    blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    I didn't watch the first video, but as far as the book banning thing, that hearing was while she was Solicitor General... so she was basically arguing a case for a client. You can't really hold a lawyer's comments against them (or as part of their philosophy) when they are making the cooments as a lawyer arguing a case on someone's behalf.
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  • unsung
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    On a side note; anyone see Al Franken fall asleep? Real professional pal.
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,440
    unsung wrote:
    On a side note; anyone see Al Franken fall asleep? Real professional pal.
    for most people these hearings are only a formality. i'm sure that if sen franken did not already know how he was going to vote he would have been riveted to the exciting testimony. that said, come on man, drink some coffee or something. as a senator isn't this why you have assistants?
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  • yosi
    yosi NYC Posts: 3,167
    I didn't see him sleeping, but I did see him tear his Republican colleagues a new one in his final round. He took them apart on judicial activism, on Marshall's record, and pretty much every other topic he touched on. He was straight forward and eloquent, and at times blessedly funny (a blessing since these hearings are in general deadly boring).
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  • Stypo420
    Stypo420 Posts: 519
    You can thank Chief Justice Roberts for the evasions witnessed during every Supreme Court confirmation hearing since he set this precedent.
  • DriftingByTheStorm
    DriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    I really "like" this one too:

    Did you write the memo?

    Just skip to 1:55 to hear the question. The lead up is not all that necessary, imho.

    Did you write the memo?
    Well, uh ... it's certainly in my handwriting.

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