Drive on Chan... I'm glad someone can help others understand the truth.

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Yea can't keep the words of your great leader.

Prophet Muhammad - “Do you love your creator? Love your fellow-beings first.”

So the Courts shouldn't have the power of judicial review? Is that what you are saying, since you are obviously against the effects of Marshal's decision. It is a valid function of the Supreme Court to validate and interpret the Constitution in light of congressional acts.

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In criminal matters, yes. But we're talking about enemy combatants in a time of war. In this case, the Geneva Conventions apply.

No, it is not a function of the Supreme Court to validate and interpret the Constitution. It is, however, a valid function to interpret laws passed by Congress in the light of the Constitution.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Well, sure, since we've never had any problems, domestically whatsoever! And, since America is entirely perfect, of course we're automatically justified in telling others how they should be.

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An employee gets trampled to death by a frenzied, greedy mob at a Walmart sale, and customers actually complained when the store closed. Yet, I'm the bad guy for suggesting policies that assume people act like retarded herd animals that need government nannying and control....

The court should definitively not have the power of judicial review because that creates a dictatorship of the judiciary in which the plain language of the Constitution can be construed to mean anything that is political expedient for the advancement of the ideology of the majority opinion. Why do you think SCOTUS nominations always make headlines?

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"Bring me that horizon".

SC, the Supreme Court is normally pretty sober and moderate. Normally.

But, appointments are made by politicians, and, unfortunately are for life, two things I don't think is very wise. Justices should be elected, apolitically, removed from political party machinery as well. And, terms should be for about ten years, I think. Half our SCOTUS Justices probably have no idea what the Internet is, or that Sonny and Cher aren't together anymore.

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An employee gets trampled to death by a frenzied, greedy mob at a Walmart sale, and customers actually complained when the store closed. Yet, I'm the bad guy for suggesting policies that assume people act like retarded herd animals that need government nannying and control....

Like knowing obsenity when they see it? Sorry, it's illegal and irrational to grant SCOTUS judicial review.

Texas elects their judges apolitically, everybody still knows where they fall politically. You need to remove the judiciary from Constitutional law entirely if you seek to preserve liberty.

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"Bring me that horizon".

No third branch, then? No-one to determine the Contitutionality of Executive or Legislative action? What, exactly are you advocating?

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An employee gets trampled to death by a frenzied, greedy mob at a Walmart sale, and customers actually complained when the store closed. Yet, I'm the bad guy for suggesting policies that assume people act like retarded herd animals that need government nannying and control....

I think we ought to release them in the middle of DC and observe what happens.

Do you think holding people indefinitely without charges, the american way?

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