Topic: Poli-ticks
OMG!
Had to write about this.
All the Judge stuff that is going on. These people are voting on and off about these judges because of thier views and how thier views will affect thier judgement.
If you don't use your views, religious background, morals, as well as common sense when judging something, then what do the judges we have in the Supreme court now use? Do they simply just follow the constitution? This may be good and all, but the constitution was written by man about a couple hundred years ago.
First off we interpret the constitution differently today than people did when it was written, and if you really want to get political about it; the constitution was actually written to sound good. So people would want to hold up against the English King.
This constitution that everybody holds so dear can be manipulated in many different ways because certain passages or sections could be interpretted in different ways. Just like the Bible...hmmm...
But the Bible is God's word and I doubt God had the Bible written as a political move.
The constitution of the United States of America is constantly be updated, not by amendments, but by new technologies as well as what people think it means today, vs yesterday.
Bottom line: how do we know that the constitution is constitutional (not literaly speaking)?
Just because it's law (abortion) doesn't mean it's right or moral or just.
While I agree that the Supreme court should not create law, I also beleive that the Supreme court should not just rely on the constitution to decide many judgments. If people don't like the law, then they should work on changing it, but that doesn't mean that the supreme court should blindly follow some hundred year old document just because that's the law.
Do not take this to mean I don't care about braking the law and I think government is stupid. I simply think nobody (including myself) is perfect, and that includes Supreme Court Judges, the President and even the Pope.
"Only fools are positive"
Posted by Big the Fat Tiger
at 11:45 PM CST