Rand Paul...Dumb as a Bag of Cunt Hair

[Darth]

SO you see the supreme court always makes the right decision in the end

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio

That's further than I could go. The supreme court is charged with determining the correct interpretation of the constitution so that laws may not be passed which are not in accord with it. So, by definition, their rulings do have the effect of defining what is constitutional. We can argue that their motivations were political or racist or something other than the well reasoned interpretation based on the constitution .. and we would sometimes be correct. But being the "supreme" court, their rulings are the final say on what is or is not constitutional .. even when they are mistaken until such time as they themselves make that correction.

So no they don't always make the "right" decision and they can go wrong for a number of reasons. But their decisions always officially decide what is or is not permissible constitutionally.

Yeah brian I've been using the terms interchangeably when I shouldn't have (though I would argue there is a very high correlation (under my definition))

Well so long as whateverist is correct I'm wrong then. It's 'constitutional', until they change their minds and say it wasn't, at which point it no longer is =P.

My definition was: In line with the constitution
and not: Is in line with what the supreme court says is constitutional

Would you say that the law is in line with the constitution though? (and I'm going to assume that that's what Rand meant, or that he is working under a similar misunderstanding).