Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy
We are holding our breath waiting for Obama to name his choice
for a successor for Justice Souter, but we should know better.
It does not really matter.
Sure, Obama will probably name a liberal,
perhaps even someone who is very pro-abortion.
It does not really matter.
Not when you consider that liberal justices sometimes
write conservative opinions and conservative
justices sometimes write liberal opinions.
Souter, after all, was supposed to be a conservative and
was appointed by
PresidentGeorge Herbert Walker Bush.
He turned out to be extremely liberal.
The same thing with Bush's choice
of Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy.
Both of them, while not liberal most of the time,
were a big disappointment from time to time.
They had a knack for speaking in tongues.
A friend of mine recently started blogging. His Blog is entitled:
LEX CHRISTIANORUM
“Dedicated to the Law of the Christian People and the Natural Law”
it can be viewed at
http://lexchristianorum.blogspot.com/
As you might guess, he is a lawyer. Not just any kind of lawyer; he is a Catholic and is well grounded in philosophy and theology. I have known him for 24 years.
I was very pleased when, on May 15-16 he posted an analysis of the
U.S. Supreme Court 2003 decision in the case: Lawrence v Texas.
You can read his analysis on the three posts which are titled:
On Anagnorisis and Ephors.
My interest in the case, Lawrence v Texas, dates back to the day it was decided and the decisions were published. I was shocked that Justice Kennedy had written the majority opinion which I thought was very bad.
It seemed to me at the time that the gay activists had won a major victory and that the floodgates were going to be opened and the protections for the unique status for traditional heterosexual marriage between a man and a woman were going to be swept away rather soon.
Justice Scalia’s dissenting opinion was one of the best he has ever written and he offered the same view I have just expressed.
To give you a quick understanding of the case and its implications here below is an article written by Joseph Sobran in 2003.
- Leo Rugiens
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JURISPRUDENCE IN TONGUES
by Joseph Sobran
The Real News of the Month
Volume 10, Number 7
(page 5)
Something strange happens to people when they get
appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. They cease to think
and talk like normal human beings. They become possessed
by the Zeitgeist, which speaks through them in spooky
accents, issuing preternatural calls for national
transformation, uninhibited by tradition, precedent, or
even logic. This prophetic spirit has been busy lately.
First Sandra Day O'Connor issued a majority ruling
in favor of affirmative action in state-funded college
admissions policies. Using the magic words "diverse" and
"diversity" fifty times, she called for realizing "the
dream of one nation, indivisible" -- apparently
forgetting, in her mystical transports, that it was the
U.S. Constitution she was supposed to be ruling on and
quoting the Pledge of Allegiance instead.
Nor did she bother explaining how "diversity" -- a
euphemism for discrimination against whites -- will
achieve the promised wonders; but never mind. It would be
an indignity to subject the prophetic spirit to such
nitpicking.
The Constitution doesn't forbid the states to fund
schools and colleges or to dictate any admissions
standards they happen to choose. But O'Connor didn't make
her case on this ground; she assumed the authority of the
Federal Government, and of the Court, to review and judge
the states' actions in this area. It so happens that she
approves the principle of racial preferences, discreetly
applied (with certain arbitrary exceptions).
But the Court wasn't finished. Three days later it
ruled that a Texas law against homosexual sodomy was
unconstitutional. This time the prophetic messenger was
Anthony Kennedy, like O'Connor a Reagan appointee who has
grown in office. He too disdained to quote the text of
the Constitution, preferring to quote himself.
In Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), which
reaffirmed Roe v. Wade, Kennedy, a nominal Catholic,
wrote, "At the heart of liberty is the right to define
one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the
universe, and of the mystery of human life." This woolly
philosophizing has been widely lampooned -- in his
dissent, Antonin Scalia mockingly referred to it as the
"famed sweet-mystery-of-life passage" -- but Kennedy is
so proud of it that he repeated it in his sodomy opinion.
This kind of reasoning, to call it that, can lead
anywhere. If abortion is somehow an extension of a right
to define the universe, Scalia is quite sensible to
apprehend the future applications of a "right" to sodomy.
The lower courts teem with Anthony Kennedys; a Canadian
court has just ruled that the law must recognize
"marriage" between people of the same sex. It can happen
here, and probably will.
What's so appalling about O'Connor and Kennedy is
the utter triteness of their minds. They seem to have
studied metaphysics at the feet of Hugh Hefner, yet they
regard themselves as pioneering thinkers, philosophic
guardians of the Republic, entitled to reshape old
institutions to suit themselves. Their opinions are thick
with ill-digested cliches; and they get their cliches
from the wrong people. O'Connor claims, in the teeth of
every known opinion poll, "broad" public support for
racial preferences, and Kennedy claims an "emerging
awareness" that his benign view of homosexuality is
correct -- though, again, the polls show otherwise. Both
are avatars of what's loosely called "elite" opinion,
though the supposed elite is now a dwindling liberal
minority that still mistakes itself for an avant-garde.
One might as well seek the leaders of tomorrow in an old
folks' home.
Both rulings are nothing more than solemn judicial
whims, inspired by fading trends. In both cases narrow
majorities decided that the Court's recent interpretation
of the Fourteenth Amendment, already fantastically broad,
still isn't broad enough to suit them. It just keeps
emanating penumbras, which, as Kennedy's opinion
illustrates, are rapidly approaching infinity. No state
law is safe from the Court. The Tenth Amendment, with the
whole federal structure it expresses, is dead. Scalia
quipped that Kennedy's defining-the-universe dictum may
turn out to be "the passage that ate the rule of law."
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Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama
is a
USURPER
because he is not eligible to be President of the United States
because he is not a Natural Born Citizen
as required by Article Two, Section One, Clause Five
of the United States Constitution.
This is a fact regardless of
where he was born (Mombassa, Hawaii, Chicago, Mecca or Mars).
He is not a Natural Born Citizen
because he was not born of
TWO PARENTS
BOTH OF WHOM WERE UNITED STATES CITIZENS
at the time of his birth.
His father was a subject/ciitizen
of Kenya/Great Britain at the time of his birth and afterwards.
His mother was too young to pass on her US citizenship
according to the law in effect when he was born.
Check it out:
http://www.TheObamaFile.com/ObamaNaturalBorn.htm
His usurpation cannot be corrected by Congress,
it can only be corrected by his resignation, his removal
or
by an amendment to the Constitution
which will never happen.
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- Leo Rugiens
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WASHINGTON D.C., April 1, 2009: In a move certain to fuel the debate over Obama's qualifications for the presidency, the group "Americans for Freedom of Information" has released copies of President Obama's college transcripts from Occidental College. Released today, the transcript indicates that Obama, under the name Barry Soetoro, received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia as an undergraduate at the school. The transcript was released by Occidental College in compliance with a court order in a suit brought by the group in the Superior Court of California. The transcript shows that Obama (Soetoro) applied for financial aid and was awarded a fellowship for foreign students from the Fulbright Foundation Scholarship program. To qualify, for the scholarship, a student must claim foreign citizenship. This document would seem to provide the smoking gun that many of Obama's detractors have been seeking.
The news has created a firestorm at the White House as the release casts increasing doubt about Obama's legitimacy and qualification to serve as president. When reached for comment in London, where he has been in meetings with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Obama smiled but refused comment on the issue. Meanwhile, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs scoffed at the report stating that this was obviously another attempt by a right-wing conservative group to discredit the president and undermine the administration's efforts to move the country in a new direction.
Britain's Daily Mail has also carried the story in a front-page article titled, "Obama Eligibility Questioned", leading some to speculate that the story may overshadow economic issues on Obama's first official visit to the U.K.
In a related matter, under growing pressure from several groups, Justice Antonin Scalia announced that the Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear arguments concerning Obama's legal eligibility to serve as President in a case brought by Leo Donofrio of New Jersey. This lawsuit claims Obama's dual citizenship disqualified him from serving as president. Donofrio's case is just one of 18 suits brought by citizens demanding proof of Obama's citizenship or qualification to serve as president.
Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation has released the results of their investigation of Obama's campaign spending. This study estimates that Obama has spent upwards of $950,000 in campaign funds in the past year with eleven law firms in 12 states for legal resources to block disclosure of any of his personal records. Mr. Kreep indicated that the investigation is still ongoing but that the final report will be provided to the U.S. attorney general, Eric Holder. Mr. Holder has refused to comment on the matter.
According to Associated Press story shown below, Obama's tramscripts from Occidential College show that he was an undergradraduate at the school under the name Barry Soetoro, and received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia. I did a search using "Smoking gun finally found."
Here are a few of the websites that came up. None said it was false.
http://affiliate.kickapps.com/_Smoking-Gun-Finally-Found/blog/266247/85365.html
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID616
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/News.php/2009/04/30/smoking-gun-finally-found
http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?disc9495;article3895;title=APFN
http://www.sodahead.com/question/346077/breaking-news-obamas-occidental-college-records-released-under-court-order-records-show-real-name-barry-soetoro-he-received-financial-aid-as-foreign-student-more-supreme-court-to-hear-eligibility-case-against-mr-obama-do-you-care-bout-time/
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