So much for "no Legislating from the Bench" and "Judicial Restraint"
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- Created: Saturday, 23 June 2012 04:12
- Written by JoSeppi
Remember the term "Stare Decisis", uttered so many times at the Roberts Senate confirmation hearings? The concept being that "established law" would be respected was affirmed by Roberts as part of his philosophy and portrayed as how he would guide the Court.
Yet, in it's recent ruling on a Union issue, the US Supreme court demolished those cherished principles, and its own rules and traditions, to reach beyond the issues before it and "made law from the Bench". Roberts himself put lie to his own testimony at his confirmation hearing.
Any question about the hypocrisy of those on the Right, at least those in actual positions of power, should be laid to rest now.
Where are the cries on the Right for impeachment that were so loud when Earl Warren was Chief Justice, for precisely those accusations?
Are Roberts, Scalia and Alito immune from that measure?