Black, White, or Gray?

How can different people look at the same law and find it to say something different? You would think that if it says something, that's all it says. Cut and dry right? If it says yes, then it's yes, if not, then it's no. Black and white, right?

Nope!

Under our Constitution, the President gets to appoint Supreme Court Justices. What this does is make it so that the Court has become partisan. If a Conservative picks a Judge, more than likely it will offer a more conservative ruling. The same goes for a Liberal pick, whose appointees will judge more liberally. What this does is leave open the possibility of 1 single law being changed every 15 to 20 years or so. Take for instance the 2nd Amendment. This is a highly contensious thing for a lot of Americans. Last year, the Court, on a 5 to 4 ruling, upheld the individual right to bear arms. The 5 who wrote for the majority were the Conservative appointees, the 4 against were the Liberal appointees. Now, if someone wanted to take another 2nd Amendment case to court starting this year, by the time it reaches the Surpreme Court, the court could have 2 or 3 appointees of President Obama, which could make the swing 5-4, or even 6-3 for the liberal viewpoint. That could mean that the Court could strike down the 2nd Amendment. So, it was O.K. in 2008, but not 2021! This is a problem!

When a new case goes before the Court and needs judging, that's one thing. But, the ability for a Court to overturn a ruling of a previous Court, is wrong! Once a decision is made, no future Courts should be allowed to overturn a previous Court's ruling. Period!

I think if the Founder's had ever imagined that this could happen, they would have added more things to the Constitution. I think they envisioned that everything would always be cut and dried, black and white. But, it's not! It's actually, unfortunetly, gray!