(March 16, 2016 at 7:42 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(March 16, 2016 at 7:34 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Fucker doesn't have a law degree.There's no Constitutional requirements for being on the SCOTUS. The big wigs made up some phony qualifications to exclude everyone who isn't in their club.
OH BULLSHIT, our society is just as responsible for letting it get this far.
AGAIN, you are NOT taking long term voting habits into consideration. Nothing magically happens overnight, things build to these points.
Now you don't seem to understand that the founders handed a very brilliant concept to society. The idea of equal protection, which is what the First Amendment is. Checks and Balances and oversight as well and separation of powers. But especially with religion, even back then most people just put up with the idea because they just won a war. But outside the Barbary Treaty article 11 which backs up the idea of secular common law, ever since religious people have made several countless attempts to blur and erase that wall.
The biggest events that lead us to an increase of pushing more religion into government were the cold war, which lead to paranoid Christians getting God in the pledge and put on all currency. And you talk about Catholics JFK had to bend over backwards to convince Baptists and Evangelical voters he would not use his faith to legislate. Just like today's xenophobes even after 7 years still think Obama is a tyrant.
And Nixon was anti Semetic. Didn't trust Jews one lick.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/pol...nixon6.htm
GOP has been bitter since that loss, and many are still in Congress who started out as aids Cheney was one of those young GOP supporters back then.
Add to that Jerry Falwell starting his "moral majority", while that failed, he did successfully court the GOP up until his death. And unfortunately Liberty University has been a mandated GOP stop not by the government, but by politicians seeking to get votes.
The net result of 50 years of assaulting Jefferson's wall is why Obama can't do what he wants.
Yes, it IS lopsided as far as religion but Scalia was for the rich and the religious right. He'd fit in with any Evangelical and more often than not sided with the rich and the right wing religious. Ginsburg is a liberal, I most certainly trust her if she were the congress and the to confirm anyone of any label.
It isn't about labels for that court, it is about right wing religious people and voters over decades limiting our choices.
