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Lincoln Went Against The Supreme Court to End Slavery


There are checks and balances that Congress has over the Supreme Court

1. They can add or subtract the number of justices.
2. Term limits. The problem is the Supreme Court could decide.
3. Congress can determine what type of cases the Supreme Court hears.
4. Congress can also pass laws to nullify dumb S.C. rulings.
5. The president can also check their power like Lincoln did with Dred Scott decision when he ended slavery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGlmXlPDLLA

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Lincoln was a racist. He did not believe in equality and wanted to deport them to Haiti or Africa. He used them as political pawns and his liberal party continued to do so after his death. Now represented as the democrat party.

You people are hilarious. You're all about freedom, the Constitution and our system of government but only when it goes your way. Which means you don't really care about liberty at all. YOU are the reason that compromise is impossible.

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People grow and change like Lincoln.

The Republican Party was against slavery. Democrats split into two different parties: The Northern Democratic Party which opposed slavery; The Southern Democratic Party which supported slavery.

You Trumpists are the ones who are banning books, forcing 10-year-old rape victims to have babies, attempting to violently overthrow the government when your retarded leader loses an election and your cult leader Trump supports shredding the Constitution. You're obviously projecting!

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Yes, we are "banning books". Sounds bad when worded in that intentionally vague fashion. The whole truth is that we are banning books that promote homosexuality and other perversions from our schools, so our CHILDREN are not exposed to it. The real question is why are you grooming children? Why do you support pedophiles?

In fact YOU are attempting to overthrow the government and shred the Constitution. We are trying to protect it, from you.

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Books written by POC.

Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa, by Veronica Chambers and Julie Maren
The Life of Rosa Parks (Famous Lives Series), by Kathleen Connors 
Malala: A Hero for All (Step into Reading Series), by Shana Corey and Elizabeth Sayles 
Hiawatha and the Peacemaker, by Robbie Robertson, and David Shannon
Hachiko: The True Story of a Loyal Dog, by Pamela S. Turner and Yan Nascimbene
Henry Aaron’s Dream, by Matt Tavares 

What does your cult find offensive about Henry Aaron besides his race? 

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You could have hit the ball out of the park if you just pointed out that it was the 13th Amendment that ended slavery, which was ratified after Lincoln was dead, but you're too big a moron.

Fetch me a Gatorade.

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How is that relevant???

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yes for term and age limits. over half our government is over 70.

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I'd like to see term limits or age limits for Supreme Court justices. I like HR 5140 since the Supreme Court justices would go back to the Federal Court after eighteen years if they still want to work and the President would pick a new Supreme Court justice every two years.

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/verify/can-congress-put-term-limits-on-supreme-court-justices-we-asked-five-legal-experts-court-packing-judges/65-2de67c84-910b-4a59-9824-f64d35866ae5

Lincoln did not end ALL slavery. The emancipation proclamation only freed slaves in confederate states. There were a few slave states that were allied with the Union.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1549.html * Not all slaves freed *

The biggest problem of the Supreme Court is a lack of an ethics code AND an enforcement office. While federal judges have to abide by an ethics code, Supreme Court justices are not held to any standards. There also needs to be an Inspector General that covers the federal courts since the federal courts handle their own ethics complaints and that won't work.

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/589311-wanted-a-federal-judicial-inspector-general/

I also question whether the Supreme Court needs to go on Summer break. They have a scheduled June through September break BUT it does seem like the court is often not in session. If these justices had to work their butts off like everybody else, they wouldn't want to sit on the bench into their eighties.


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Throughout history Presidents have violated the Constitution. You mentioned Lincoln, then there was FDR, W Bush, Obama, Trump(clearly more, but you get the idea). Notice the trend though? Its much more normal these days. And the comments Trump made are the worst of all because he actually thinks he won the election. However, there is no evidence to prove that.

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Andrew Jackson: Justice Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it.

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