So, you believe every SCOTUS decision has been constitutionally correct? When they've reversed themselves, were they right both times?PSLOwner wrote:Then if means, surprise of surprises, that talk radio performers (e.g. Rush Limbaugh, etc) are not the constitutional scholars that they think they are.marksiwel wrote: So say the Supreme Court says its all good, what then?
Do you agree with Taney's ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford that those of African ancestry are "beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect"? Or that allowing those of African descent to be citizens of the U.S., "...would give to persons of the negro race, ...the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, ...the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went"?
As a parenthetical aside, it's interesting that Dred Scott, although a horrible ruling, makes two points that concern gun control. First, the court said that American citizens have the right to "...keep and carry arms wherever they went." Second, they ruled that a property owner cannot be deprived of his property merely by being in a state where ownership of that property is illegal.
