RETIREDFAN1

"Now, with all of that said, I have to get back to reading my constitutional law textbook because, ironically enough, I have my constitutional law class in the morning." Again, obama was a constitutional law scholar and professor, too......

" So, in effect, the Constitution mandates that Congress set up some system of lower courts to hear these cases, " The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish

"Furthermore, if you could shut down all the lower courts and the Supreme Court could somehow find a way to handle all those cases, all of American justice would be in the hands of nine people as opposed to the 874 federal judicial appointees we have today. Not only does that reduce the thoroughness with which justice would be doled out, it severely curtails the ability of the courts to assess the ramifications of how the law is applied and make adjustments as necessary, and concentrates an immense amount of power - quite literally all of the power to determine what the law means - in the hands of just nine people. If, on top of that, Congress were to reduce the number of SCOTUS justices to one as you desire through attrition or some means that's actually constitutional, that power to interpret all of the American body of law would be even more focally concentrated in the hands of just one man, who would be entitled to serve until retirement, conviction for a crime or death. That, in my opinion, would be as close as you could possibly get to a having a monarch under the United States Constitution." That's one of those CHECKS and BALANCES that you should be aware of IF you really do teach Constitutional Law OR are a student of such....Congress COULD reign in a judicial system which has usurped it's Constitutionally enumerated powers by simply shutting them down.........However, I'm reminded that obama was also a "Constitutional Law" professor, and we all see clearly how he doesn't understand the first thing about that document......

"Now that we've established that Congress does not have the power to reduce the number of SCOTUS justices at will, let's discuss your plan to get rid of all of the lower federal courts." To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; I said that congress COULD get rid of them all should they decide to exercise their power, not that they WOULD.....My statement is in complete agreement with The Constitution......

No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time. It would be awful hard for those Justices to remain on the court who Congress, BY A SIMPLE MAJORITY VOTE, decided to no longer pay........

He's full of hot air......he never touched on the actual QUOTES I posted from the Constitution which show much of his long winded rant to be incorrect.......I imagine you know as much about The Constitution as he does, you just choose not to be a blowhard about it.......anyone can come on and CLAIM to be attending "constitutional law classes"......I'll break his bloated arrogance down later this morning with actual QUOTES from the Constitution, not just reference to the article and section.......:)

Article 3. Section 1 The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services a Compensation which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office. In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.

I already have on several occasions on different threads.......Congress organizes all federal courts lower than the Supreme court....with a simple majority, they could disband any federal they wanted to.....or all of them for that matter.....and they set the number of Supreme Court justices and where they can meet......they could, with a simple majority vote, disband all federal courts except the Supreme Court....and with a simple majority vote set membership on SCOTUS at 1...and with a simple majority vote, make that 1 SCOTUS justice meet in a broom closet.....all with a simple majority vote....they don't have the balls to exercise the power that The Constitution enumerates for them.....

IF that republican house and that republican senate would EXERCISE THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS, the courts and the president would not be an issue.........

and from their guy rubio.....

"media" making a mountain out of a molehill for ratings.......all this is, nothing more......

When one attempts to compare Apple's to oranges, one can come up with all kinds of absurdities.........

112 kids is a lot.....there is no similarity at all between the two.......

last realignment: Colmesneil 133 kids....Whitewright 245 kids....no similarity whatsoever in enrollment.......

Exactly the same thing......do you even read what you post???

...and by the way, in the Book of Daniel, God says that Babylon was the greatest nation to ever exist....all others are a pale comparison.......

Our Forefathers FOUGHT to get OUT of The British Empire.......you are wrong in your assessment of THEIR views.......a simple reading of The Declaration of Independence shows your error.......

Not in the least....TEXAS is my home.......and TEXAS has gone at it alone before.......

IF he leaves....

When will they wake up........

Lol.......:)

Perhaps you don't understand the term "hypothetical"......:P

Republican voters (Charlie Brown) and their elected representatives (Lucy)

so in this hypothetical, we are just going to sit back and ALLOW them to take assets which are already here??? Without a fight??? Remember how many in the military are from Texas......

You privatize them and let the free market reign, which is one of the principles this nation was founded on in the first place.......