Nightmare future: Top Ten worst rulings by an Obama-stacked Supreme Court
Curt Levey of the Committee for Justice published a truly frightening post at Breitbart.com on November 3, “Obama Supreme Court is the stuff of nightmares.” Levey is an attorney and an expert on the U.S. Supreme Court.
While attention has been given to the consequences of an Obama re-election to the Supreme Court, Levey lays out the actual future, and it would be devastating. The America we are trying to hold on to would be gone.
Levey spells it out:
Here are the sobering facts. There are already four solid liberals among the nine Justices on the Court. Of the five center-right Justices, two – Kennedy and Scalia – will turn 80 in the final year of a second Obama term. Should either retire or die, Obama will put a reliable liberal on the Court (no Democratic president has failed to do so since JFK). The result will be a liberal majority on the Court that can do whatever it wants, unrestrained by the precedent and constitutional text that conservative judges look to….
Think about it: if Obama is re-elected, there’s a 75% chance of a return to the ultra-liberal Warren Court era that began with Earl Warren’s appointment as Chief Justice and persisted, past Warren’s 1969 retirement, into the 1970’s. During that time, the Supreme Court gave us Roe v. Wade, school busing, a ban on the death penalty, and a radical separation of church and state, to name just a few of the Court’s activist excesses. The Obama Court would probably be like the Warren Court on steroids….
To give people a better feel for what this would mean for America, I looked at the sort of decisions an Obama Supreme Court might issue. I narrowed them down to the ten worst rulings we might plausibly see:
TOP TEN WORST SUPREME COURT RULINGS IF OBAMA IS RE-ELECTED
#10 – A ban on voter ID laws, making it impossible to stop voter fraud.
#9 – Carte blanche for hate-speech laws that ban videos and other expression deemed offensive to Muslims and other minorities.
#8 – Abolition of the death penalty.
#7 – A prohibition on tuition vouchers being used for religious schools, crippling the school choice movement.
#6 – Elimination of all legal limits on racial preferences for minorities.
#5 – A requirement for taxpayer-funding of abortions through the third trimester of pregnancy.
#4 – Invention of a constitutional right to gay marriage that would trump all state laws and religious objections.
#3 – Striking down, as unconstitutional discrimination, any serious attempt to curtail the flow of illegal immigrants into the country or to deny them government benefits.
#2 – Elimination of an individual right to possess firearms.
#1 – Enshrinement of welfare and government-provided healthcare as constitutional rights, thus fulfilling Barack Obama’s dream of a Supreme Court willing to bring about “redistribution of wealth” by “break[ing] free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution.” (quoting 2001 PBS interview with Obama)]
[Top photo via Breitbart.com]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Dear God…”deliver us from evil”! (Obama)
Though we certainly have not done anything to DESERVE it-
Have mercy on us as a nation!
Pamela, I agree! While I do not believe we deserve to be delivered, I have been seeking God’s mercy for this great nation every day. I truly hope people wake up and see the reality of what we are facing
I’m fine with 10, 8, 7, 6, and 4, not that most of them would ever happen. Some of this is just stupid. No one is trying to get rid of our right to bear arms.
Please check out my little youtube rundown of how BHO is doing in the Catholic Church (click)
Jack they registered guns and then banned them in the UK and much of Europe, that is a big reason why people are against gov’t gun control.
I thought you were a libertarian? What’s with your ok for #s 10 and 6? How is #6 not racism?
We are not Europe. Other countries never had right to bear arms in their equivalent to the Bill of Rights. It’s just fear-mongering and blatant stupidity to add it to this list, literally no one is talking about repealing that right.
I believe 10 is completely unconstitutional.
I misread 6, I actually don’t support Affirmative Action at all.
I’m not a libertarian, I lean libertarian especially socially. I agree with Gary Johnson on a lot of issues.
This reminds me of when Focus on the Family did their “letter from 2012”, a fear mongering list of things that didn’t happen.
I hope 10 happens though. 8 would be great as well.
Meh. I was hoping the original article would give more information on why Curt Levey thought these 10 were possibilities, but it doesn’t. It could have been informational rather than scaremongering if he had shared a legal analysis of previous Court actions/decisions or even trends in courts at the state level and shed some light on why he feels these 10 are “plausible” as the “sort of decisions an Obama Supreme Court might issue”.
And I personally wouldn’t mind seeing #8 come to fruition. It’s not a “nightmare” to me that the death penalty be abolished in the US.
#10. Overturning voter ID laws designed to prevent potential democrat voters from voting. Maybe some laws to stop the voter registration fraud conducted at arms length by the republicans.
#9. What a vivid imagination Mr. Levey has!
#8. About time! There is no justifiable reason to not abolish the death penalty.
#7. Keep education for educating, not indoctrination. Education funding to be spent on facts, science and knowledge, not fairytales.
#6. More vivid imagination and scaremongering for racists.
#5. Unlikely, but it would be good to see.
#4. Recognition that there are no reasons for marriage inequality apart from some religious dogma, and that the US is not a theocracy.
#3. Yet more imaginative scaremongering! Amazing.
#2. Never gonna happen. Perhaps some commonsense adjustments so loonies can’t get firearms in their cornflakes box.
#1. Oh dear, fancy trying to have a just and democratic society rather than a bunch of cave-dwelling tribes. How dweadful!
Reality- your tag name is like calling a tall person Shorty isn’t it. Smh.
Jack- I disagree about the guns and now I know why you don’t. Rights are erroded over time usually and the dems have talked in length about challenging the right to bear arms at diffetent times. Ask a DC or NYC resident that wants a hand gun but cannot. legally own one.
Do I think Obama will have time to take our right to bear arms away? No. But that does not mean “no one is talking about” it. I am mostly thinking about the two maybe more supreme court openings Obama could have the opportunity to fill.
I’ll have to research other countries. However my FIL remembers the govt coming for all the villagers guns during Franco’s revolution in Spain so I’m not 100% sure you know what. you are talking about. I’ll soon find out.
And yes I know its now “legal” in DC to buy a gun. I wont insult your intelligence with commentary on how impossible it iS for us to buy one here.
I agre with Lrning, #8 is not a nightmare, America needs to learn not to ”kill her problems away”. The others are pretty much what I expect too if he gets re-elected.