Ravenwood - 03/18/08 06:00 PM
The SCOTUS began hearing Second Amendment arguments today, and the idiots were out in droves. I hope this isn't representative of what they are teaching at GW:
Pat Harvey, a 24-year-old second-year law student at George Washington University, said : "If a democratically elected city council has had a law on the books for 30 years, it's not the court's job to overturn it."So I guess Pat Harvey thinks that landmark civil rights cases like Brown v. Board of Education, Miranda v. Arizona, and Roe v. Wade are unjust because they overturned decades of "democratically elected" law.
I have a 5 year old , and the similarity in logic pattern with Pat is striking. The good news is that mine will outgrow this ridiculous mindset. Pat is quite likely a lost cause.
Posted by: Michael at March 18, 2008 7:13 PMWell, to be fair, Government class (aka Civics) got cut in Pat's high school to make room for Human sexuality class and putting-condoms-on-bananas class; The founding fathers may not have foreseen the role of the SCOTUS as crafted by John Marshall in Marbury.
What is inexcusable is that Pat is a second year law student and IIRC by now (March) should have had one semester done, the semester in which they discuss judicial review and Marbury v Madison.
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