What is the role of the Supreme Court?

Girdweed

Well-Known Member
My limited understanding is that the SCOTUS is in place to interpret, enforce, or nullify laws based around the US Constitution.

What is your take?
 

NoDrama

Well-Known Member
That is one of their roles, but it was not enumerated by the Constitution, it actually came about because of the Judiciary Act of 1789 which set the precedent of Judicial Review.
 

Girdweed

Well-Known Member
The Judiciary Act of 1789 was mandated in the Constitution.

Article 3 Section 1

Congress was tasked with creating the Supreme Court and other inferior courts. Why was the Judiciary Act of 1789 passed in the first session? It was required to create the Supreme Court by order of the Constitution.

How can you argue this point?

The Constitution did not write down every law in the world. It laid the foundation from which to build. Our founding fathers didn't create the Supreme Court. They delegated that task to Congress, which is why it happened during the first Congressional session.

Does that make more sense?
 

UncleBuck

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[video=hulu;OrvtXrjEnoz7CGTLxKtRVw]http://www.hulu.com/watch/186493/decision-2010-o%E2%80%99donnell-questions-separation-of-church-state[/video]

where in the constitution is separation church and state?
 

NoDrama

Well-Known Member
The Judiciary Act of 1789 was mandated in the Constitution.

Article 3 Section 1

Congress was tasked with creating the Supreme Court and other inferior courts. Why was the Judiciary Act of 1789 passed in the first session? It was required to create the Supreme Court by order of the Constitution.

How can you argue this point?

The Constitution did not write down every law in the world. It laid the foundation from which to build. Our founding fathers didn't create the Supreme Court. They delegated that task to Congress, which is why it happened during the first Congressional session.

Does that make more sense?
It created a separate federal judiciary. Did you even spend more than 10 seconds looking this information up? or are you just going off the cusp and hoping no one notices you grasping in the dark?
 

NoDrama

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[video=hulu;OrvtXrjEnoz7CGTLxKtRVw]http://www.hulu.com/watch/186493/decision-2010-o%E2%80%99donnell-questions-separation-of-church-state[/video]

where in the constitution is separation church and state?
O'Donnel is an idiot. SOOOOOO many people really do not know what the Constitution says. Many think they do, but are proven wrong over and over. Mostly these people are politicians. Some people also think that the Founding fathers were "Salesmen" involved in drumming up support for their money making enterprise called the US Constitution by making up advertisements called " The Federalist Papers".
 

redivider

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ah, the constitution....

the paper which doesn't consider blacks, women, children (much less fetuses) people... and therefore doesn't give them ANY rights.....

the supreme court decides cases with constitutional implications and also other cases of great complexity and uniqueness. they do not write laws. they set PRECEDENTS.
 

NoDrama

Well-Known Member
ah, the constitution....

the paper which doesn't consider blacks, women, children (much less fetuses) people... and therefore doesn't give them ANY rights.....

the supreme court decides cases with constitutional implications and also other cases of great complexity and uniqueness. they do not write laws. they set PRECEDENTS.
See? At least someone here understands how Courts work.
 

redivider

Well-Known Member
the supreme court also makes legislative recommendations to governments when cases that not even they can understand reaches them.

i hope that one of the ultra conservatives or the 'originalist' on the court just gets a freaking heart attack or something, get replaced by some other lesbo, or a vegan or something...

we need it...
 

Girdweed

Well-Known Member
We're having a love in or however you spell it. I'm switching to Indica with amber trichs in about an hour. I'll quit quoting the Constitution and go back to making jokes. ;)
 

endogarden

New Member
Supreme Court is bullshit, the judges are appointed for life, and usually they are partisan bastards put in place by whatever crooked president is currently the face of the machine.

 

Charlie Ventura

Active Member
ah, the constitution....

the paper which doesn't consider blacks, women, children (much less fetuses) people... and therefore doesn't give them ANY rights.....

the supreme court decides cases with constitutional implications and also other cases of great complexity and uniqueness. they do not write laws. they set PRECEDENTS.
And the Constitution doesn't give Whites and Males rights either. Rights come from our Creator. The first "legislators" wrote the Constitution in an effort to chain the federal government and to prevent that government from violating our Creator given rights. This is an important distinction to get one's head around. Why? Because in the whole scheme of things, God is supreme. God created Man. Man wrote the Constitution creating our government. Government needs workers (bureaucrats) in order to function. What this means is ... the government and its bureaucrats are working for us, not us for them.
 

txhazard

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And the Constitution doesn't give Whites and Males rights either. Rights come from our Creator. The first "legislators" wrote the Constitution in an effort to chain the federal government and to prevent that government from violating our Creator given rights. This is an important distinction to get one's head around. Why? Because in the whole scheme of things, God is supreme. God created Man. Man wrote the Constitution creating our government. Government needs workers (bureaucrats) in order to function. What this means is ... the government and its bureaucrats are working for us, not us for them.
Agreed.

Does anyone else see the dark clouds begin to form around this thread?
 
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