Prop 8 Protest Information Thread

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I don't deny the fact that there are actual instances of judges legislating from the bench.

With all due respect, Mr. Cricket, you are incorrect. There's no such thing as legislating from the bench. No judge has ever passed a law. Judges interpret the law and even the most evil and depraved rulings are but twisted interpretations of the law.

Some may find those interpretations so twisted they are contrary to the actual law (in their opinion), but they are not new law. Judge's set precedent. It is not law. I admit that may be confusing to the layman.

So please consider yourself informed.



Name me an instance of judge's legislating from the bench. That's a challenge open to Kevy, Cricket, and everyone.


Sorry, but the term makes me ill, it's for retards, and I'm sick of it.


It's so disrespectful of the brilliance of our admittedly imperfect system. Not all justice is really that ... too far from it, I'm afraid. But try to imagine where we'd be without our structure for impartial justice. OMG, how much more fuct our lives would all be.

We certainly wouldn't have been fighting to preserve our marriage rights. We wouldn't have had them.




Sigh. My apologies for the rant. Pet.Peeve.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Name me an instance of judge's legislating from the bench. That's a challenge open to Kevy, Cricket, and everyone.

This is a silly challenge. You make a statement about the legal terminology that you are better informed than Cricket or I (and most of the people on LoT).

My statement was a simple observation in response to GC's post:

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

If the courts come up with a decision that the religious "right" doesn't like, they automatically throw around the phrase "legislating from the bench".

And my response was not in regards to the specific wording but a comment that neither the right or the left is immune to a critical response if a decision doesn't go the way they want it.