I'm sorry.

[Divinus Arma]

I made no claims about whether individual Justices were right or left leaning; conservative or liberal. I simply pointed out that 7 of the 9 were Republican appointees, therefor any claim that the Democrats "control" the SC is simply sublime in its idiocy.

Very well. I will correct my original point: The liberals control SCOTUS. And I make this judgment based on their rulings exclusively.

I personally think that your arguments display a very real lack of understanding about how your own Supreme Court functions. Your statement that a political party controls the SC is just ludicrous. No political party controls the SC, beyond what little influence they can exert by trying to nominate Justices they believe to be "friendly" to their cause.

SC Justices are appointed for life. Once they attain the position, they need have no loyalty to whomever it was that appointed them, and they don't have to worry about getting reelected. They are beholden to no political party. This leaves them free (as I said before) to make rulings that they believe are in keeping with the Constitution.

I have to disagree with you on much of this, but not all. An ideological persuasion controls SCOTUS and that ideological persuasion is the foundation of the Democratic party. The court is ruled by leftist thinking, the Democrats are leftists, so therefore Democrats have the greater influence within SCOTUS than do Republicans. I agree with you that that they are beholden to no party because they are unelectable, a critical component of the checks and balances within our government despite what some would say about it now. However, their ideological perspective of culture and society in relation to the constitution still makes the Supreme Court a Left-dominated government entity. They are Democrats in all but name; walks like a duck, etc.

You may disagree with their decisions (as do I, especially with respect to the property rights issue), but I still maintain that they each believe they are making the right decisions based on the Constitution.

I completely concur with this statement. I do not believe that any within the court are actively seeking the anihilation of the United States. Are they making the right decisions? That is for them to decide and us to despise.

So please stop trying to sell this "Democrats control the SC" crap. It just makes you look like you don't know what you are talking about, and based on some of your other posts I know that's not really the case.

See the above argument. Constitutional-Cultural Liberals control the Supreme Court. These Republican justices are party affiliated in name only. The rulings of the recent court do not represent the tenets of Republican governance theory.