Yes, let us understand how the Constitution works.
If SCOTUS rules that same-sex marriage bans are unconstitutional, that is exactly what happened. That is not legislation, it is judicial review.
Now, if that happens, all such laws are instantly invalidated. That means they no longer have the force of law. Which means all executives – state and federal – would not have any authority to enforce them. In fact would be constitutionally enjoined from enforcing them. Attempting to enforce them after that point would violate the oath of office of governors, presidents, state and federal attorneys, and law enforcement officers. There would be a handful that would try it, but they would fail.
So, yes, the President would have to follow SCOTUS. And no one but a fool or a liar would say otherwise.
12 Likes
How is it possible a neurosurgeon can be so full of bullshitry?
8 Likes
More than that…it means that we can start segregating schools again and women who get married are now the property of their husbands and interracial marriage is now illegal again…By Caron’s logic, he’s in a whole lot of legal trouble.
11 Likes
People keep saying he is a smart man; a surgeon. But really, all I ever hear him say is idiotic. “The law comes from the legislature.” Honestly! I thought they corrected that nonsense in 4th grade civics class.
7 Likes
At least your mother will sit down to a computer. My Mother has a unique method of email. She will call me long distance and dictate what she wants to tell her sister. I email my cousin, who prints it out and hand delivers the message to her mother. That a direct call between sisters would accomplish the same thing does not enter into the equation. This way, an 85 year old and a 90 year old can remain technically au courant.
15 Likes
He’s to medicine as Sheldon Cooper is to Physics…
3 Likes
I guess Carson’s never heard of Marbury v. Madison.
11 Likes
Ummm, isn’t it? Called Android?
1 Like
This is why you wouldn’t ask a constitutional scholar to operate on your brain.
11 Likes
Not on my mom’s rickety 15 yo desktop it’s not.
3 Likes
Soooo, if the SCOTUS decides that gay couples are NOT entitled to marriage under the Constitution, could the President ignore that, too? What about the challenges to the ACA? That was passed by the legislative branch, so by Dr. Carson’s logic, he could ignore any ruling from SCOTUS that undermined it?
8 Likes
Well, my mistake. But then, I’m probably older than your mother.
1 Like
She likes all manner of techno-gadgetry. Learning how the gadgets work holds less interest for her. : ) My dad, on the other hand, is like your mom. And he was a college perfesser! Of education! I told him decades ago, before he retired, that he ought to learn to work a computer. “That’s what graduate assistants are for,” he said. He’s 92, still active, but he’s never made a computer go and never will.
4 Likes
Exactly, some hidden amendment that on RWNJs can view and read that states they can cherry pick the Constitution.
3 Likes
How is it possible that a man with a reputation as a brilliant neurosurgeon could be so totally ignorant.
4 Likes
Carson in plainer words… “The Constitution? Who cares?”.
2 Likes
He reminds me of Palin—you learn to expect that anything he says will be ridiculous, and you’re rarely wrong.
6 Likes
Ram, SDRAM, Gigs, Memory, Storage, cache, it all makes my head hurt. I can do the basics and am familiar with lots of different programs having had to use them in my occupation, but I can relate to your Mom.
1 Like
Except I think Obama could better operate on Carson’s brain than Carson could be President
8 Likes
Drunk, blindfolded and with a dull, rusty butterknife.
4 Likes
