Tema: Opinions on Rick Santorum

Iniciado por Rodrigo

That's not true, abortion is murder and the US constitution says it protects life, so it should be illegal at the federal level. The problem is that your Constitution (as all the other liberal Constitutions) is interpreted freely by politicians and judges.

This is not so in all cases; progressivist politicians and judges see the Constitution as a "living" document that can be interpreted at-will and as they see fit. Others are like Ron Paul and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and are strict interpreters of the Constitution as a set of largely inflexible laws that can't be changed. The usual way to change or amend the Constitution in the U.S. is to do it in Congress. It requires both Houses of Congress (Senate and House of Representatives) to have a successful supermajority vote, successful ratification by the majority of the state governments of the 50 states, etc. to amend the Constitution.

Why do you think appointing activist judges who can subvert the the Constitution (or state constitutions, etc.) via the judiciary is a very common progressive trick here? It's simply more expedient to have some verminous judge simply re-interpret the law at the local, state, or federal level then to have to worry about the nasty business of amending constitutions (which is a pain-in-the-butt process even at the local level). The judiciary in the U.S. has no powers of making law but this is done in a de-facto manner when, say, a progressive judge chooses to interpret a specific law in a clever or subversive manner- no new law has been passed by the legislature, no constitutional amendments have been made by the legislature, but the end result is if a new law had been passed or a constitutional amendment had been decided. How? Via the process of judicial precedent. Say, a corrupt judge interprets a law, etc. in a specific manner in a given case- until this judge's interpretation is overturned or that judge being removed from the bench for corruption (which has happened and in which cases all of the rulings, etc. are null and void), usually by an appellate court, it has the force of law. You can see why Ron Paul and Justice Scalia are strict in how they interpret law and the Constitution then, no?

Anyways, you might like Scalia, he's an archconservative traditional Catholic:

Antonin Scalia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Maybe we ought to open another thread for this non-Santorum commentaria?