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andysocialWhile chatting in the "off topic" room at work today, one of the morons participants mentioned how laws are made, not by the President, but by Congress and activist judges. I objected to the adjective before "judges" since they are judges, whether appointed or elected, and the term has become one of derision used by the neocon nutjobs.
When pressed, he averred that judges were making law, in contradiction to the wishes of the electorate and the legislature.
Landmark Supreme Court Cases is a good reference.
I mentioned that Brown v. Board of Education was just such an event, and does this mean that we should have kept segregation in schools because the electorate and the legislature wanted it?
Response: If I say yes I'm a racist biggot (sic), if no then I'm inconsistant (sic).
Yep. Don't want to be a flipflopper, do you? Or a good speller. :-)
When pressed, he averred that judges were making law, in contradiction to the wishes of the electorate and the legislature.
Landmark Supreme Court Cases is a good reference.
I mentioned that Brown v. Board of Education was just such an event, and does this mean that we should have kept segregation in schools because the electorate and the legislature wanted it?
Response: If I say yes I'm a racist biggot (sic), if no then I'm inconsistant (sic).
Yep. Don't want to be a flipflopper, do you? Or a good speller. :-)