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echo: holysmoke
to: Jeff Binkley
from: Ed Hulett
date: 2009-05-10 14:01:18
subject: Card, `Joe the Plumber an

Jeff Binkley -> Ed Hulett wrote:


 EH>>>>>> You embrace legislation by judicial fiat? Wow!

 RS>>>>> Because politicians will pass laws that are bigoted.

 EH>>>> Huh? Only Congress has the power to make law.

 RS>>> Yes, even if those laws are absolutely stupid.

 EH>> Your point?

 RS>>>>> Judges using the Constitution rule those laws invalid.

 EH>>>> That isn't what legislation by judicial fiat is all about.

 EH>>>> The Judicial branch has no authority to write law, yet they
 EH>>>> have been doing it for decades and you moonbats applaud their
 EH>>>> efforts.

 RS>>> Glad to hear you oppose Brown Vs The Board Of Education, and
 RS>>> Loving Vs. Virginia.

 EH>> Where on earth do you get that idea? In neither case did the court
 EH>> write law. They correctly interpreted the unconstitutionality of
 EH>> discriminatory laws.

 EH>> Do you even understand what I am referring to with the term judicial
 EH>> fiat? Do you have any idea how government works?

 JB> Rhetorical.

Sadly, you are correct. Neither Sauer or Ceppa care about preserving the
Constitution. They think that the ends justify the means.

Ed

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"Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with
restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every
break of the fundamental laws, though dictated by necessity, impairs
that sacred reverence which ought to be maintained in the breast of
rulers towards the constitution of a country."

--Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 25, 21 December 1787

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