A Brief History of Supreme Court Silliness

The Constitutional safeguards against judicial tyranny having failed, the popular referenda in more than thirty states having been deemed meaningless, and a Republican Congress having proven utterly supine, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) handed down its decision in Obergefell v. Hodges on Friday 6/25/15. Same-sex marriage is now “the law of the land” (to use the shopworn phrase favored by every pundit on television).

That Americans both liberal and conservative now repose so much veneration in SCOTUS would astonish anyone who has examined SCOTUS’s wildly erratic jurisprudence. In this commentary, Paul Vendredi lists eighteen SCOTUS decisions that countermand one another—including decisions on the issue of homosexuality! Should Americans venerate a court that cannot even get its own legal theory straight?

Following this, we briefly examine the third article of the Constitution, the vague wording whereof proved the seedbed of the judicial tyranny that began growing in cases like Marbury v. Madison and Gregg v. Georgia--a tyranny that reached its zenith of power in Obergefell v. Hodges.

We then look at restraints on judicial power that Presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz have proposed in light of Obergefell v. Hodges.

Run time: 13:52; Recorded: 6/29/15