James Oliphant. What a buffoon. (Not to be confused with Tom Oliphant)
He thinks Governor Perry thinks there are only 8 Justices on the Supreme Court because Gov Perry said “eight unelected and, frankly, unaccountable judges” decided to ban prayer from public school.
Engle vs Vitale – the 1962 ruling of the US Supreme Court that outlawed requiring public school students to recite a prayer was decided by a 7-1 vote.
Eight judges did make that decision.
http://atheism.about.com/od/churchstatedecisions/a/EngelVitale.htm
Nice try.
Perhaps Mr Oliphant had that case confused with the 1963 cases of Abington School District v. Schempp and Murray v. Curlett which dealt with the issue requiring reciting Bible verses in public schools.
http://atheism.about.com/od/religioninschool/a/AbingtonSchempp.htm
Those cases were decided by a vote of 8-1.
That point having been made, how bizarre that a candidate embracing the Constitution would then say that it is flawed because the Supreme Court isn’t elected by the people. You can’t love the Constitution then make such a blanket statement about it being fundamentally flawed. God didn’t want an elected Supreme Court.
Yes, but as long as the partisan press in these 57 states stick with it, all will be well. Unless of course you are a Navy corpse-man. “Bilious bastards,” George Smith Patton called them. And so they are.
Actually it is 60. Candidate Obama had visited 57 states and had one more to go and his staff wouldn’t let him go to Alaska or Hawaii.