Thread: Supreme Court will not review Kim Davis case involving same-sex marriage licenses

From below:

"Seems quite clear that a majority on our Supreme Court has usurped legislative functions, set itself up as an unelected, omnipotent and unreviewable, policy making branch of government, and is now pretending our Constitution means whatever it chooses it to mean."

This does not sound good at all.

What recourse do we have in a situation like this?

Originally Posted by GaiaGoddess

From below:

"Seems quite clear that a majority on our Supreme Court has usurped legislative functions, set itself up as an unelected, omnipotent and unreviewable, policy making branch of government, and is now pretending our Constitution means whatever it chooses it to mean."

This does not sound good at all.

What recourse do we have in a situation like this?

First Amendment

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The ball is in the people's court. The question is, will they rise to the occasion and exercise their right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances? I suspect they will roll over once again while their constitution is subjugated inch by inch, clause by clause, by those who took an oath to support and defend it.

The sad thing is, we were aptly warned with respect to this very concern.

”Submit to despotism for an hour and you concede the principle. John Adams said, in 1775, “Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud.” It is the only thing a people determined to be free can do. Republics have often failed, and have been succeeded by the most revolting despotisms; and always it was the voice of timidity, cowardice, or false leaders counseling submission, that led to the final downfall of freedom. It was the cowardice and treachery of the Senate of Rome that allowed the usurper to gain power, inch by inch, to overthrow the Republic. The history of the downfall of Republics is the same in all ages. The first inch that is yielded to despotism - the first blow, dealt at the Constitution, that is not resisted - is the beginning of the end of the nation’s ruin.” ___ THE OLD GUARD, A MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE PRINCIPLES OF 1776 AND 1787.

JWK

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,”