Must read. This might be the last thing Scalia ever wrote.
TRN-
…it is not of special importance to me what the law says about marriage. It is of overwhelming importance, however, who it is that rules me. Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court.
The opinion in these cases is the furthest extension in fact—and the furthest extension one can even imagine—of the Court’s claimed power to create “liberties” that the Constitution and its Amendments neglect to mention.
This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected committee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extravagant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves.”
ht/ Tsunami
The Freedom to Govern Themselves. I just want to keep re typing that. They will not stop infringing on there own. We need to stop them. The Freedom to Govern Themselves. What a brilliant patriot.
It had the same effect on me when I read it. I had to send it in. This needs to resonate.
I submitted the link saying only this: “This Is Important”.
That’s awesome! We lost a very wise man. How much freedom will we now lose because of his absence?
@ Unruly refugee,
Only as much as we allow.
The left really hated this guy
http://gizmodo.com/scalias-death-may-have-saved-the-planet-1759188952
JOE PAPPALARDO: 3 Ways Scalia Could Have Been Killed.
Meh. If I were going to gas someone, I’d use argon. This conspiracy-theory stuff is all in good fun, but I had lunch with Scalia about 3 years ago, and I remember thinking that he looked old, overweight, and not so great. His mind was lively, but I worried that he might not make it to the end of Obama’s term and said a small (unheeded, apparently) prayer that I was wrong.
http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/02/15/okay-scalia-assassination-conspiracy-theories-getting-hand/
It’s exceedingly rare to find a person in such a position of authority acknowledging what that authoritie’s limitations should be.
authority’s. There is no spelling before coffee.
Great opinion! He will be missed.
We’ve been in this state for some time, and for many different issues. The courts were of great concern to our founding Fathers when the Constitution was written. Their concerns tyranny from the courts is upon us. What do we do?
Elected judges can be just as corrupt or activist. Should the States be able to override or veto a high court decision? Term limits for judges with periodic impeachment votes by the people or States to cleanse the judiciary of activists?
It is time to rein the courts in.It will only get worse with the moral decline of the country.
@Red state: Scalia did indeed have health problems:
http://www.aol.com/article/2016/02/15/texas-judge-reveals-more-about-scalia-s-final-days/21313262/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D-231633308
This event could change the course of the upcoming election, in a similar way as the shut down of the government in recent years.
Scalia’s untimely death could be a catalyst for the democratic party to use in manipulating the public into thinking the Republican’s are obstructionist.