"To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. Their maxim is boni judicis est ampliare jurisdictionem [good justice is broad jurisdiction], and their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves." Thomas Jefferson Madison vs Marbury established judicial review. This is a power to determine what is or is not Constitutional, granted to the Supreme Court by themselves. No where in the Constitution does the Supreme Court have this power. Thomas Jefferson's warning has come true, rulings come down on political sides, not by legal means.
+Brutha Not Yoo. He just wrote an article supporting birthright citizenship on NRO that was just embarrassing. It was like he was writing a legal brief where he felt obliged to throw every argument possible at a judge in the hope that something would stick, with no attention paid to internal consistency or, apparently, whether he himself believed anything he said or not. And the last thing we need now is a Presidential-power worshipper.
One day I would love to wake up and see a Republican nominate Richard Epstein for the Supreme Court. I also hope Joe Biden and Warren are in the Senate confirmation hearing. I would use vacation time to sit at home and watch him talk to them. One day. . . .
Thanks for upload, been loving Uncommon Knowledge for 5 years now, love the old vids too.
And yet we observe the Supreme Court's absurd social engineering response to the challenge....
This govt is broken.
Outstanding installment, even by the high standards of this program.
"To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. Their maxim is boni judicis est ampliare jurisdictionem [good justice is broad jurisdiction], and their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves." Thomas Jefferson
Madison vs Marbury established judicial review. This is a power to determine what is or is not Constitutional, granted to the Supreme Court by themselves. No where in the Constitution does the Supreme Court have this power. Thomas Jefferson's warning has come true, rulings come down on political sides, not by legal means.
I'd love to see Yoo and/or Ted Cruz on the SCOTUS.
+Brutha Not Yoo. He just wrote an article supporting birthright citizenship on NRO that was just embarrassing. It was like he was writing a legal brief where he felt obliged to throw every argument possible at a judge in the hope that something would stick, with no attention paid to internal consistency or, apparently, whether he himself believed anything he said or not. And the last thing we need now is a Presidential-power worshipper.
In 4 years!?
I'd like to hear more from them next week.
Welp, these guys were incredibly wrong about how this was going to turn out.
One day I would love to wake up and see a Republican nominate Richard Epstein for the Supreme Court. I also hope Joe Biden and Warren are in the Senate confirmation hearing. I would use vacation time to sit at home and watch him talk to them. One day. . . .
Swing and a miss w/ ACA.
let's subject him to some of those techniques ,just joking