tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post5917053804795272724..comments2024-03-27T19:00:02.499-04:00Comments on UNDERNEWS: How Obama could get Garland on the court. . .without the SenateUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-30355916910846306652016-04-13T03:20:36.540-04:002016-04-13T03:20:36.540-04:00Washington could have warned about Garland's v...Washington could have warned about Garland's vote in Speechnow.org v. FEC. Based on the alteration that money is speech.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-45419422063699098262016-04-12T14:16:06.468-04:002016-04-12T14:16:06.468-04:00We have long since passed a disturbing threshold, ...We have long since passed a disturbing threshold, long abandoning anything resembling the nation's founding precepts. <br />As if Republican obstructionism weren't enough?<br />Certainly a validation for those contending fascism is a duopolistic objective.<br />So, hypothetically, Barry elects to proceed with installing a justice upon the Supreme Court through evocation of Senate waiver, to whom or what authority might those citizens suspicious and less than comfortable with such constitutional innovation appeal? ===the Supreme Court?<br />One is reminded of a certain admonition from George Washington:<br /> "Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the Constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown."<br />---George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com