President Again Says Supreme Court Is Wrong

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act which allowed the government to determine which states and counties can change voting laws and procedures.  Yesterday the President weighed in on what he thought of the decision:  “They made a mistake.”

In a 5-4 ruling, the Court said it could no longer enforce a requirement that states or localities with a history of discrimination must get federal government approval before changing their election laws or the way they hold elections.  The majority of justices made their decision based on progress in race relations, civil rights laws and states’ rights over 48 years since the law was originally passed.  The court is obviously more optimistic about the practice of civil rights than the president and some minority leaders in this country.

Just as he did after the court’s decision on corporate campaign donations in 2010, President Obama basically declared he knows more about Constitutional law than the learned justices sitting on that high bench.  The President didn’t say that he disagreed with the decision – he said the court made a mistake.  What arrogance one must possess to twice declare the Supreme Court of the United States was wrong in their decision.  He’s an elected official, put in office not for his experience and outstanding wisdom but more for his popularity.  He has no judicial experience.  And from what I’ve read he doesn’t have a whole lot of experience teaching Constitutional law either (since most of his former colleagues at the University of Chicago say he was rarely there.)

So as rare as it is – I'm going to share my thoughts on it.  Many liberals like to tout the changes in race relations and how only Republicans are racist these days.  And since there are, by polls, more liberal/progressives in the country these days, you would think there would be more understanding and tolerance of the Supreme Court’s decision.  But liberals and race oriented activists seem to think that Southern states can’t abide by civil rights laws.

The truth is that many liberals like to turn just about everything into a racist issue.  If you are a conservative/Republican and you criticize the current President, regardless of the reason, you’re a racist.  If you want the borders secured and want to stop people from entering the country illegally, you’re a racist.  If you want more people working and less people on government handouts, you’re a racist.  If you own a gun and believe it is your right as an American you’re a racist.  If you disagree with people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson you’re a racist.  If you use words like Constitution, anger, Chicago, food stamp President, Obamacare, you people, etc., you’re a racist. 

I know this because I’ve been called a racist several times over the last few years for one or more of the things listed above.  I can always justify the things I say with facts and educated opinions but those who refuse to listen don’t care about that.  Many liberals are so busy screaming the R word they don’t hear the actual facts you’re giving them.  But I think that’s their intention.  If they scream the R word long enough and loud enough they think we’ll just be quiet.  I’ve long understood that one of the liberal mottos is “Don’t try to confuse me with facts – my mind is made up.”  The R word is merely self-defense against truth.

So why wouldn’t liberals disagree with the Supreme Court decision to allow states to determine their own voting laws when they could use it to keep a long standing racial issue going?  In the next election, if the states that were governed by that law go to the right then liberals can point and say “I told you so.”  (It won’t matter at all to them if the states went to the right in the last election.  That will be irrelevant.)

To the President I would say this – if you think the Supreme Court is so bad why not resign the Presidency and try to get yourself appointed as a justice?  I’m sure you could make it happen.  Those who got you to the White House would surely help you get there as well.  Or maybe you could sign an executive order giving yourself Supreme Court authority.  Then you could use your vast knowledge of the law to make the “correct” decisions and fix the wrong decisions made by the current court.  After all…  you seem to know best.