Law becomes jungle

[JimG]

“What made Justice Kennedy’s decision in Obergefell so damaging was not its seemingly endless, vapid paeans to individual autonomy and other pseudo-intellectual claptrap. The inferior quality of Kennedy´s musings is beside the point. The problem is that his musings have no basis in our Constitution or in the moral and intellectual traditions that shaped it and our culture. Kennedy´s legal reasoning, such as it is, flagrantly violates the rule of law in order to impose the “correct” policy on the nation.”

But this article is not about same sex marriage. It is about the flowering of legal cynicism. Cases are decided, not on the basis of law. Instead private ‘social justice’ opinions are arbitrarily imposed as law, even as constitutional law, with no basis except raw judicial power.

This ought to worry us.
crisismagazine.com/2016/the-flowering-of-legal-cynicism

 

[Catholic1954]

It should indeed worry us. The Supreme Court has been the weakest link in the balance of power, from the beginning.

 

[St_Francis]

This has been going on for decades.

 

[mikekle]

“What made Justice Kennedy’s decision in Obergefell so damaging was not its seemingly endless, vapid paeans to individual autonomy and other pseudo-intellectual claptrap. The inferior quality of Kennedy´s musings is beside the point. The problem is that his musings have no basis in our Constitution or in the moral and intellectual traditions that shaped it and our culture. Kennedy´s legal reasoning, such as it is, flagrantly violates the rule of law in order to impose the “correct” policy on the nation.”

But this article is not about same sex marriage. It is about the flowering of legal cynicism. Cases are decided, not on the basis of law. Instead private ‘social justice’ opinions are arbitrarily imposed as law, even as constitutional law, with no basis except raw judicial power.

This ought to worry us.
crisismagazine.com/2016/the-flowering-of-legal-cynicism

Well, I agree, but its the people that are guilty of continuing to allow this to go on…so many recognize its wrong, but just lie down and let it happen, mainly because they are scared of legal problem, in other words, scared of government.

Thomas Jefferson, " When a people fear the government, there is tyranny, when the government fear the people, there is liberty".

Our Constitution actually requires the people to take action if such things occur, but over time, thru history, our Govt has sneakily instilled fear in the people, again, mainly by threats of arrest, prosecution, which leads to loss of job, income, home, etc etc, so most people just let the ‘little things’ go, little things become big things after awhile, so on and so on.