Sen. Feinstein Lays Out Examples Of Conservative Judicial Activism

[colonialmilitias1776]

Lol! The reason why these "precedents" were overturned Senator Feinstein is because they had no constitutional justification for their existence in the first place. Your views on the Second Amendment and everything else in the Constitution is not at all consistent with what those who ratified the Constitution had intended. If those people were around today to see what you and your liberal colleagues have done to this country, you would be hanged!

[cldump]

when is this bitch gonna just stroke out and die???

[FortHardKnox]

I want to thank MediaMatters for their insightful propaganda so I too can learn to be a kool-aid drinking, lemming following liberal moron like my Democrat friends.

[sunshinyday11]

They are supposed to uphold the constitution - not decide cases based ontheir personal experience. Liberals hate the constitution - like Obama said it doesn't give the government enough power to " help " the people.

[BoredomCorner]

LIBERALS hate the Constitution? Did you not pay attention to everything the Christian Right/Republicans were trying to do in the last nine years alone?

[dlad38]

Wow ObamaMyJesus dont tell us how you really feel, or think. Must be on welfare thats why you like Obama so much, cause he is going to give you everything.

[MeLikeGoFast]

Even if they were examples of judicial activism does that mean its ok for a liberal judge to do it as well?

This is so childish.

[Joe402]

Feinstein is still a bad Senator she opposes a good public plan.

[ObamaMyJesus]

You whites are gonna get what's coming to you now !!! It's not your country anymore !!

[MeLikeGoFast]

Dont be such a racist.

[JExecutiveOrder11110]

Two wrongs don't make a right.

A judges job is strictly to enforce the Constitution not re-interpret it

[ProgressiveAction10]

Republicans don't just stand in the way of progress, they throw their own feces at it while loudly expressing their pride in ignorance. Not surprising, this dwindling minority of backwoods hypocrites, who has had their ideas profoundly proven as wrong and rejected by the sane majority of the country, believe they will be the future.

[Shoelessx2z]

This is the same Supreme Court that ruled in favor of slavery for 150 years, the same court that ruled in favor of segregation for another 100 years, what makes anyone think they will do what is right now?

[MeLikeGoFast]

Republicans only stand in the way of YOUR definition of progress.

Think about it.

[BoredomCorner]

You mean like upholding the law, and regarding gays as human beings? Kind of sad when that's called "your" definition of progress.

[MeLikeGoFast]

Your full of shit.

nobody said gays are not human beings except you.

[MegaBrownbaby]

Sotomayor = Reverse Racist

[CastorT64]

In 2012, anyone but Obama!

[CastorT64]

Sotomayor is a bigot, and Feinstein is a tool.

[FUKCKUU]

wow look at that white bitch

[Biswalt]

Why do we allow politicians to use this line of reasoning: so judges aren't supposed to be activists but because conservative judges have been activists liberal judges should be allowed to be activists? Why do we allow politicians to get away with the "everyone is doing it" defense? Politicians are like junior high aged punks always trying to get away with a little bit more.

[AUTuck]

JewsDestroyNations - "More then likely" tells me that you are just making this stuff up...

[AUTuck]

JewsDestroyNations - "Jews have infiltrated our goverment" ... Damn President Hussien...Oh wait, he's muslim... who is voting the Jews into power? ... black folks?

[AUTuck]

"I believe" you should do what's best for the U.S.A. and not for political personal gain...

[lenny380]

Feinstein is one reason CA is now bankrupt. And may call to declare CA the first socialist state of the union.

[jayraskin]

Excellent points. Thanks Senator.Feinstein.

[webxsuccess]

F@ck you Frankenstein your state of Cali is BROKE because you keep giving our tax dollars to illegal spiks you whore!

[obamadidit2008]

webxsuccess, pardon me but your white sheet is showing!

[JohnWMArxak47]

So what is she saying? That because the "other side" did it that makes it okay?

What is she 5 years old?

Republicans/Democrats aren't on your side.

[dgallegos4201]

conservatism is a founding principle of our country! it's called preservation! liberalism is the destruction of society and civilization.

[ROOKTABULA]

That's so hypocritically funny! But then again, you're a Repugnican supporter.

Unless you're deaf and refuse to actually go read and do research the FACT, (I know, those damn facts are liberal!):

The MOST activist, most guilty of abolishing TRADITIONAL laws that protect people, ARE Repugnican appointed judges.

Ergo: Most ACTIVIST judges, are Red and NOT blue.  hmmmmmmm red.... Are all y'all Repugnicans COMMIES or sumpin?!?!

[physicq210]

If conservatism was a founding principle of our country, then we would still be part of the British Empire. Our country was found on revolutionary principles based on ideas from the Enlightenment, not conservative principles.

You're also confusing the definitions of "conservatism." The political definition of the word is not so much preservation but maintaining the status quo.

[obamadidit2008]

stupidity,intellectual laziness,selfishness,self-cent­eredness are the founding principles of america. especially if they are neatly wrapped up with a cross,bible, and a flag

[ProgressiveAction10]

Republicans don't just stand in the way of progress, they throw their own feces at it while loudly expressing their pride in ignorance. Not surprising, this dwindling minority of backwoods hypocrites, who has had their ideas profoundly proven as wrong and rejected by the sane majority of the country, believe they will be the future.

[dgallegos4201]

what has been proven wrong? point by point explanation please... what progress have liberals made? what socialist nation has worked? where does modern day socialism derive from? i can wait...

[physicq210]

Republican policies:

National security: our constitutional freedoms have been slowly chipped away by the PATRIOT Act, with no appreciable gain in security.

Economy: tax cuts today, tax cuts tomorrow, tax cuts forever created a $8 trillion debt in the midst of an economic boom. Irresponsible "laissez-faire" policies that created the housing bubble, which burst.

[physicq210]

What progress have liberals made? Social Security. Medicare. The Peace Corps. The Interstate Highway system. The FDIC. Getting us out of the Great Depression.

Do you even know what socialism is? That Obama is president? That's not socialism. That the federal government is doing what it used to do in 1933? That's not socialism.

[physicq210]

What socialist nation has worked? Let's use your definition of "socialism" as "anything but America." Let's see...northern European nations? Canada? Then again, they're not fully socialist, but no one in America is advocating full socialism except for you.

Where does modern-day socialism derive from? The French Revolution. The drawbacks of the Industrial Revolution. The ashes of World War II in European countries. Disaffected farmers in Canada. Anti-American backlashes in Latin America.

[obamadidit2008]

ever heard of scandinavia??!!

[davidpark68]

Maybe the Question should be revised to "What progress have liberals made without stealing someone else's money?"

Democrat election strategy: Create a nation of people Dependent on social programs then promise them More social programs.

[qualityrkc]

dems and repubs are both fucked. Do you realize that? Corporations own both.

[Gman256]

Good boy. Now go watch your next Alex Jones Documentary.

[BoredomCorner]

I'll remember that if you get laid off and find that you have no safety net. Be careful what you wish for.

[davidpark68]

whats the matter cant handle the truth? you can make my comments go away but the truth will remain

[AUTuck]

physicq210 - "tax cuts forever created a $8 trillion debt in the midst of an economic boom."...We are now (July 2009) 11 and half trillon in debt and 10 percent unemplyment...may need to stop spending?...No wait!!! We have "HOPE and CHANGE"! spend, spend, promise...and ignore the working class!!

[obamadidit2008]

once again dgallegos, let me spell it for you.....S.C.A.N.D.A.N.A.V.I.A.­!

[CommonSenseJoe]

She is so full of it. Activist is applied to those who are "inventing" law that it not found in the Constitution of the United States. Liberals just make up laws and rulings without a basis for it in law and Constitution.

[duhCider]

EVERYTHING the right accuses the left of committing is what the right has been getting away with for decades.

[725Mama]

You tell em, Dianne. Great point. The right wing are the worst offenders regarding activism in all branches of government. They've tried to reverse our progress as a country.