Archive for October 2012
Should Florida Supreme Court Justices Pariente, Quince, and Lewis Get the Boot?
By Spartacus Thrace
An issue facing Florida’s voters in the November 2012 election is: Should Barbara J. Pariente, Peggy A. Quince, and R. Fred Lewis each be allowed to keep their jobs as justices on the Florida Supreme Court?
Each is up for a merit retention vote this year, and each has generated considerable controversy with decisions that opponents describe as anti-democratic judicial activism in denigration of constitutional rule of law in Florida. In particular, each has been accused of overstepping their authority in making law, as opposed to interpreting existing law, with far-reaching consequences for the people of the state.
Separation of Powers
As with all other states, Florida has organized its government upon the democratic premise that when a single person or group has too much power, that person or group can become dangerous to the citizens. To prevent such concentration of power, Florida has embraced the trias politica principle espoused by John Locke and Baron de Montesquieu, which separates the government into distinct executive, legislative, and judicial divisions. The Florida constitution also gives each branch certain defined powers not shared with the other branches, a concept knows as “separation of powers.”
Florida’s scheme of separation of powers is set forth in Article II of the state constitution which provides:
The powers of the state government shall be divided into legislative, executive and judicial branches. No person belonging to one branch shall exercise any powers appertaining to either of the other branches unless expressly provided herein.1 Read the rest of this entry »
Written by Spartacus Thrace
October 15, 2012 at 10:20 pm
Posted in Courts, Elections, Judges, judicial retention, Law, Politics, Res Publica Blog
Tagged with 2012 elections, Americans For Prosperity, Barbara Pariente, Baron de Montesquieu, Colleen Pero, conservatism, Defend Justice From Politics, Democracy At Stake, Florida Supreme Court, Floridians For Fair And Impartial Courts, Jesse Phillips, john Locke, judicial activism, merit retention, Peggy Quince, R Fred Lewis, Republican Party, Restore Justice 2012, retention election, RPOF, separation of powers, Tea Party, You Be The Judge
The Obama Campaign Follows a Porn Feed on Twitter
By Spartacus Thrace
We rightfully expect political candidates and the people around them to be morally upright and of excellent character as a condition precedent to the ability to properly conduct themselves in the affairs of government if and when elected. The fact that a candidate for public office has pornography on his or her computer or subscribes to a pornography feed should be big news in any election, as it says a lot about the morals and character of the candidate. Presidential candidates and their committees are no exception. That is why it is significant and relevant to the election of our next President that the Barack Obama campaign subscribes to the pornography feed, https://twitter.com/ILikeTitsDaily, which features a daily posting of (often gaudy) photographs of the exposed breasts of women. Sometimes the breasts are not completely exposed, often the breasts are framed without showing even the faces of the women, and the sexual organs are exposed in some of the photographs.
Written by Spartacus Thrace
October 6, 2012 at 9:45 pm
Posted in Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Elections, Media Bias, Politics, Republican Party, Res Publica Blog, Uncategorized
Tagged with 2012 elections, @BarackObama, @sideboob, Barack Obama, Celebrity Sideboob, character, conservatism, conservative, Democratic Party, Facebook, ILikeTitsDaily, KartstenOkk, Michelle Malkin, morals, Organizing for America, PJ Tatler, pornography, presidential candidate, Republican Party, The Blaze, Twitchy, Twitter