Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner sees “absolutely no value” in studying the U.S. Constitution because “eighteenth-century guys” couldn’t have possibly foreseen the culture and technology of today.
In a recent op-ed for Slate, Judge Posner, a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, argued that the original Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the post–Civil War amendments “do not speak to today.”
“I see absolutely no value to a judge of spending decades, years, months, weeks, day, hours, minutes, or seconds studying the Constitution, the history of its enactment, its amendments, and its implementation (across the centuries — well, just a little more than two centuries, and of course less for many of the amendments),” he wrote. “Eighteenth-century guys, however smart, could not foresee the culture, technology, etc., of the 21st century.”
He added, “let’s not let the dead bury the living.”
Judge Posner, an outspoken opponent of late Justice Antonin Scalia, also blasted “absurd” posthumous encomia for the late conservative.
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He's a federal judge?
ReplyDeleteHe should be impeached for these comments.
Putz.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't say NO value but we do need to adapt
ReplyDelete"judge" Posner obviously does not understand the US Constitution.
ReplyDeleteNot even in the least.
The US Constitution has nothing to do with culture or technology.
ReplyDeleteIt placed RESTRICTIONS on the Federal Government.
Period.
Human beings were recognized as sovereigns. Each of us are a KING.
It eliminated statutory law.
Period.
Through statutes, the State enslaves citizens.
Another progressive communist traitor, raised up from the ranks of those traitors destroying this Country by destroying its foundation. The same Constitution and Bill of Rights that has kept this Country stronger and longer and above all the other types of countries and governments and constitutions is and has been under attack!!
ReplyDeleteThe adaptation they seek here is to further their destruction and infiltration.
He's a federal judge???
ReplyDeleteThis is the beginning of the movement (yes, there IS one) to "prioritize" our rights, which if may, are not given to us by men, but by God. They are all the natural rights.
4:38 said it very correctly. And who ever 4:38 is, he sure as hell has a better understanding (and appreciation of) what the Constitution is and does, which is RESTRICT THE POWERS OF THE GOVERNMENT.
Every day, I am more positive of the idea that the ONLY way to restrict them now is to restrict their breathing. Power craves MORE power and they will not stop until every single one of them are burned in a pit (after being hung and displayed in public for a few days).
Buy guns. Or be a victim.
Keep cheering!!!
He needs to be transferred to Serbia, where his ideas of Law are more to his thinking.
ReplyDeleteThis is wht we are not Serbia, but the USA!
Deport him now, or make him a pizza chef.
Looney Bin for him for sure.
ReplyDeleteThere are basic principles in the Constitution that should not change. Freedom to worship God, bear arms to protect ourselves and our properties, etc. Government intervention was to be minimal. Look at what has happened. Self-seeking politicians have developed policies that have lined their pockets with taxpayers' money, while so many ordinary citizens suffer. Out with the old and in with the new! And while we're at it, foreigners who are not peace and freedom-loving are not welcome here!
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