Abraham Lincoln's warming about the Supreme Court

[andricv]

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[c-rational]

1. I think you mean warning, not warming. Good post.

[murielm99]

2. The response is a judicial fix.

The SC overruled Lilly Ledbetter. A law was passed to make sure that discriminatory pay could not continue.

We need a Congress that will continue this practice.

[Karadeniz]

3. Yes, but.... the people from the great state of Louisiana voted to have David Duke for prez....

as we're currently seeing, the people can be bigoted, selfish, uncaring of others.

[Azathoth]

4. Conservatives feel the same way about gay marriage and school prayer

And, until recently, abortion

[PatSeg]

5. It rather seemed like a good idea

until we got this batch of politicized justices. The same goes with executive power until we get a president who abuses it. Unfortunately, we assumed that people in high positions of government would take their responsibilities and commitments very seriously.

[SergeStorms]

6. And above all....

be an honorable person. There have been several from the other party, whose name I won't mention, that have fallen considerably short of that trait.

[PatSeg]

7. Yes, integrity and character

are probably the most important qualifications for those who choose to serve in government. It should be viewed as a sacred responsibility and such people should be held to the highest standards. I can remember a time when we could name quite a few republicans who fit that category. Now they've become an endangered species and we are in awe when one of them displays honesty and courage.

[ymetca]

8. Lack of representation

has gotten worse, by the design of those who rule. By the "originalist" Constitution, we should have well over 4,000 in the House of Representatives. Instead, they decided to just "represent" more folks with fewer. This skews more power toward the Senate, especially in lower population States.

There is no reason why we can't have thirteen, or thirty-one, SC justices either, but without the support of a larger body in the House, it is not likely to happen. The Senate has too much power. We ignore the bicameral power structure of the Congress at our peril.

The lack of representation at all levels of government is what losing Democracy looks like.