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Re: The Constitution -- love it or change it
Posted by -- on 2/28/08

    On 2/28/08, Guns 2 wrote:
    > Supreme Court Justices are appointed to the Court by the President of the United States. The President can appoint a judge to the
    > Supreme Court every time a vacancy occurs. Because Supreme Court Justices are appointed for life, a vacancy can only occur through
    > the death, resignation, retirement, or impeachment of a sitting justice. If the president is a gun hater then he can appoint all
    > gun-hating judges.

    The US Constitution sets the procedure for appointing judges (see Article 2, Section 2) -- are you saying the Constitution is
    wrong? If so, the Constitution allows you to seek to amend it and establishes the procedure for that also (see Article 5). The US
    Constitution says that if a dispute arises over judicial interpretation of the Constitution the US Supreme Court shall have
    authority to interpret the Constitution and make a ruling that binds all courts in the country (see Article 3, Section1).

    Mr. Guns -- you can't "cherry pick" the words you like in the Constitution and ignore the parts you don't like. It is a WHOLE
    document that must be read as a whole for it to make sense. You should read Article 1 of the Constitution to understand how it
    commands that the judicial system is to operate. Again -- if you disagree then seek an amendment to change the Constitution but
    your "my way or no way" approach to Constitutional interpretation is very un-American.

     
     

 
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