Hate crime bill passes House

obama has already indicated that he is not looking for someone who will judge the constitutionality of laws of appeals on the basis of the Constitution but will consider the race, ethnicity, economic status, sexual perversion/orientation, etc., etc., of the appellants.

 

To repeat another...amendment ratification is started by Congress, but ultimately is a states matter.

Furthermore...it is not the job of the Congress to take away constitutionally guaranteed rights. Hate crime legislation has that potential.

 

Nope. You continue to embarrass yourself. Congress does not amend the constitution; the states do. Congress proposes the change, but that's it.

 

If a court and jury abdicates its responsibility to convict a murderer (where no reasonable doubt exists), that does not mean we need another law. We already have laws against murder. That is a failure in the system, not the law itself.

 

Because some judges are better than others. Judges are not perfect. And some are downright bad.

Not completely, because we live in a fallen world. It can be minimized, however, by having better judges.

It is not judicial activism to overturn a previously bad decision. Roe v. Wade was a bad decision by the Court and needs to be overturned.

The makeup up the court right now makes the overturning of Roe v. Wade close to becoming a reality. Obama as President will not advance that one bit, and it may regress (depending on who else leaves the court). If there had been no Reagen, Bush I or Bush II, we wouldn't have the four solid justices in Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and Alito. If Democrats had their way, we would have 9 liberals and 0 conservatives on the Court. As it stands, we at least have some semblance of justice on the Court. Yes, the Republicans have not been perfect in their appointments, but they have been far, far better than the Democrats. Voting GOP may not mean you did anything to stop abortion, but voting Democrat means you really did something to keep abortion going.