[Pc_Support] Re: Identity Theft to be even harder to fight with new ID card ... (CLARIFICATION)

[Paul M Foster]

On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 06:00:57PM -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

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> And no matter how "conservative" or "liberal" the Supreme Court justices
> get, they will strike down things that go against the Constitution.
> Sometimes it takes several iterations of a legislative law before they
> recognize temporarily legislation is permanent, as they try not to enact
> legislative-type rulings, but they come through for us, the people,
> everytime.  

I don't believe the Supreme Court has any compunction about acting in
place of the legislature. Witness Brown vs Board of Education, Roe vs
Wade, and many others. And now, they're beginning to use international
custom rather than our Constitution as the yardstick against which to
measure their rulings. If the Supremes are trying "not to enact 
legislative-type rulings", they're doing a miserable job of it.

Paul