{"id":3463,"date":"2010-01-28T19:31:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T00:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3463"},"modified":"2010-01-28T19:31:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T00:31:49","slug":"more-on-potus-vs-scotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3463\/more-on-potus-vs-scotus\/","title":{"rendered":"More on POTUS vs. SCOTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those watching last night\u2019s State of the Union Address may have noticed that a third of the Supreme Court wasn\u2019t in attendance.  It couldn\u2019t have been an ideological statement because the absentees included Associate Justices John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas.  After President Obama castigated the Court\u2019s recent ruling on national television, ABC\u2019s Jake Tapper reports that insult could lead to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2010\/01\/supreme-court-historian-after-presidents-insult-wont-be-surprised-if-supreme-court-doesnt-attend-next-year.html\" target=\"_blank\">other six members finding better things to do<\/a> during next year\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of Tapper\u2019s piece is an intriguing quote from Franklin D. Roosevelt about his thoughts while getting sworn in by the Chief Justice for his second term as president.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After his second inaugural, FDR recalled to an aide, when \u201cthe Chief Justice read me the oath and came to the words \u2018support the Constitution of the United States\u2019 I felt like saying: \u2018Yes, but it\u2019s the Constitution as I understand it, flexible enough to meet any new problem of democracy\u2014not the kind of Constitution your Court has raised up as a barrier to progress and democracy.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tapper doesn\u2019t comment on the quote, but it\u2019s worth mentioning that FDR\u2019s deviation from the Constitutionally-prescribed oath says a lot about the Executive\u2019s abuse of power up through Obama.  Is there any doubt FDR\u2019s current successor feels any differently about his ability to judge how flexible our fundamental laws are?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those watching last night\u2019s State of the Union Address may have noticed that a third of the Supreme Court wasn\u2019t in attendance. It couldn\u2019t have been an ideological statement because the absentees included Associate Justices John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas. After President Obama castigated the Court\u2019s recent ruling on national television, ABC\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[668,330,784,92],"class_list":["post-3463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barak-obama","tag-fdr","tag-state-of-the-union","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3463"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3469,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions\/3469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}