The U.S. Supreme Court, one of the three main bodies of government created by the U.S. Constitution to solve this nation's largest legal matters, yet has become not a court, but a body of reactionary politics . The recent news regarding the supreme court is the battle over President Obama's Health Care plan or dubbed "Obama Care" Why is the supreme court addressing this issue? Because somehow Obama Care could be unconstitutional. How can this be so? I have no idea. There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that states that the government cannot provide healthcare so why is there a dilemma? That answer is easy because the supreme court judges are hand picked by the President when one judge retires to fill his/her place, but depending on the President (either Democrat of Republican) appoints not a judge, but a conservative or liberal crony.
These cronies have not done much in the past forty years, the supreme court has reinstated capital punishment in the mid 1970's when before that it was outlawed for sometime, this system surely hasn't done anything to stop murders, and in the case of someone possibly being innocent (example: Troy Davis) the supreme court lets the injustice happen, because why harm your political base for one human life? Then in 2000 they decided the U.S. Election, not the people, but nine judges elected George W. Bush to be President. That was an epic fail to say the least then in 2010 the supreme court ruled that corporations and unions could supply unlimited amounts of money to presidential campaigns. Instead of siding with the people and stopping corporations to influence elections they decided that somehow corporations and unions are people! As to say a corporation as an entity has the same right as an U.S. Citizen guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution reads "We the People" not "We the Corporations".
Whether you agree or disagree with Obama Care, personally I don't like this plan and would like it to become a single payer plan as Obama once spoke about doing, but the U.S. Supreme Court should not be dabbling in political bickering and instead should be concentrating on creating justice for this nation, they could start by getting rid of corporate power in elections and overturn capital punishment which is illegal under article 8 of the U.S. Constitution because it's "Cruel and Unusual Punishment".
On another note, the supreme court might create another horrendous plan by voting to allow strip searches for crimes that need not warrant a strip search. This is against the law as the police need a reason to conduct a strip search. This, like other decisions passed down by this circus court is taking more liberty and justice away, not preserving it.
There are two options that need to be considered, either reform the court by setting term limits for judges and allowing elections to be held to appoint the nine judges, or get rid of the system completely.
No comments:
Post a Comment