SCOTUS Appointment

[*michaelsean*]

(02-15-2016, 05:10 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: The problem I always have with people complaining about 'legislating from the bench' is that it is really bullshit. Call it what it is, you don't agree with their interpretation. Every decision, and dissent, I have ever read makes a very good argument for their position on the issue. They are making their decision based upon their interpretation of the Constitution as it stands. It is not making law, and it certainly does not take the power from the people. If the people truly like a law that has been shot down due to constitutionality then work on an amendment. That is how the process is intended to work. To say the SCOTUS is not answerable to anyone or that they have the final say is ignorant and more indicative of a lack of faith in the processes and our elected officials.

“If someone with a job roughly like my own, facing a legal problem roughly like the one confronting me, interpreting a document that resembles the one I look to, has written a legal opinion about a similar matter, why not read what that judge has said?”-Justice Breyer on judicial rulings from other countries.  That is not any interpretation of our Constitution.