14 Mar 2013 9:25 am
GOP Congressman Says Supreme Court Doesnt Actually Get To Decide Whether Laws Are ConstitutionalStill smarting over last year's ruling upholding Obamacare, freshman Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) dismissed the idea that the Supreme Court decides whether or not laws are constitutional."Just because the Supreme Court rules on something doesnt necessarily mean that that's constitutional," Bridenstine said in a Daily Caller interview posted Sunday. After accusing Democrats of "stacking the courts in their favor" five of the current nine justices were appointed by Republican presidents - Bridenstine dismissed the idea that Congress must write laws within the boundaries set by the Supreme Court. "Thats not the case," the Oklahoma congressman said.The interviewer, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's wife Ginni Thomas, didnt have the heart to correct Bridenstine's peculiar view of the Courts role.BRIDENSTINE: Just because the Supreme Court rules on something doesn't necessarily mean that that's constitutional. What that means is that that's what they decided on that particular day given the makeup of the Court on that particular day. And the left in this country has done an extraordinary job of stacking the courts in their favor. So what we have to do as a body of Congress is say, "look, just because the courts" and I hear this all the time from Republicans - they say that the court is the arbitrator and after the arbitration is done, that's the rules we have to live under and we can go forth and make legislation given those rules. That's not the case. A perfect example is Obamacare. Obamacare is not constitutional, the individual mandate.Watch video at link in title.So Bridenstine thinks that the Supreme Court doesn't get to decide which laws are constitutional.He's either an idiot or a liar. Or more probably both.He accuses 'Liberals' of stacking the courts, when the majority of the SCOTUS Justices were appointed by Republicans, and Obama has had a hell of a time filling judicial vacancies.Only 28 of the 219 people the president has nominated to the bench have been confirmed.Shame on Ginni Thomas for not correcting this pinhead. She knows better.