(March 16, 2016 at 8:11 pm)Brian37 Wrote:You have so much BS in your comments you may want to read up on what you're posting before you embarass yourself further.(March 16, 2016 at 7:42 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: 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.
The First Amendment doesn't have squat to do with Equal Protection. That's in the 14th Amendment.
JFK was a Senator so if he was going to do any legislating he would have done it when he was a Senator. Presidents don't legislate a damn thing. So it was silly for him to have kissed anyone's ass over that issue.
Obama has been a wuss overall and is .000001 on the tyrant scale.
Ginsburg might be a liberal but she's a greedy old bat. When Trump becomes Prez he will probably have to fill her vacancy in the first week after he takes office when she croaks. She looks like a walking corpse already. She needs to step aside and let someone do something. If we ever get off of our asses are rewrite the Constitution we should put in some term limits. The creeps are like Third Worlders who think that once they are in office they can stay till death.
