Averageman
07-02-16, 09:22
This Guy seems pretty "Wacked." Is this the kind of Man you want to be placed in Judgement of you or any other American?
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/06/27/posner-republican-judge-f-constitution/
Judge Richard A. Posner, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981 and serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, has published an op-ed at Slate declaring that the U.S. Constitution is a waste of time.
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2016/07/01/posner-says-he-didnt-mean-to-suggest-the-constitution-is-useless/
I see absolutely no value to a judge of spending decades, years, months, weeks, day, hours, minutes, or seconds studying the Constitution, the history of its enactment, its amendments, and its implementation (across the centuries—well, just a little more than two centuries, and of course less for many of the amendments). Eighteenth-century guys, however smart, could not foresee the culture, technology, etc., of the 21st century. Which means that the original Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the post–Civil War amendments (including the 14th), do not speak to today.
Some of my contributions this year have drawn an unusual number of criticisms, focused on language I used that could be read as suggesting that I don’t think the Constitution has any role to play in interpreting the law—that it should be forgotten; that constitutional law is and must and maybe should be entirely a judicial creation, like fields of common law.
http://abc7ny.com/news/judges-comments-about-constitution-spark-impeachment-calls-/1409772/
Court watchers on several legal and constitutional websites have asked if Posner has committed an impeachable offense. Should he be impeached for publicly repudiating the Constitution? They also stated that a Congress that took the oath seriously would impeach Posner.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/06/27/posner-republican-judge-f-constitution/
Judge Richard A. Posner, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981 and serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, has published an op-ed at Slate declaring that the U.S. Constitution is a waste of time.
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2016/07/01/posner-says-he-didnt-mean-to-suggest-the-constitution-is-useless/
I see absolutely no value to a judge of spending decades, years, months, weeks, day, hours, minutes, or seconds studying the Constitution, the history of its enactment, its amendments, and its implementation (across the centuries—well, just a little more than two centuries, and of course less for many of the amendments). Eighteenth-century guys, however smart, could not foresee the culture, technology, etc., of the 21st century. Which means that the original Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the post–Civil War amendments (including the 14th), do not speak to today.
Some of my contributions this year have drawn an unusual number of criticisms, focused on language I used that could be read as suggesting that I don’t think the Constitution has any role to play in interpreting the law—that it should be forgotten; that constitutional law is and must and maybe should be entirely a judicial creation, like fields of common law.
http://abc7ny.com/news/judges-comments-about-constitution-spark-impeachment-calls-/1409772/
Court watchers on several legal and constitutional websites have asked if Posner has committed an impeachable offense. Should he be impeached for publicly repudiating the Constitution? They also stated that a Congress that took the oath seriously would impeach Posner.