So what do we do when they lie to us? - Granite Grok

So what do we do when they lie to us?

What can we do when we depend on honesty in the beginning (like NH’s Kelly Ayotte campaigning that she was ABSOLUTELY against illegal alien amnesty) and once in their office, they do the opposite?  A snippet of history on now Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan has ruled on the issue of same sex marriage.

Then:

In response to a question from Sen. John Cornyn (at page 28 of her Senate Judiciary Questionnaire), Kagan stated flat out that there was no constitutional right for same sex couples to marry (emphasis mine):

1. As Solicitor General, you would be charged with defending the Defense of Marriage Act. That law, as you may know, was enacted by overwhelming majorities of both houses of Congress (85-14 in the Senate and 342-67 in the House) in 1996 and signed into law by President Clinton.

a. Given your rhetoric about the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy—you called it “a profound wrong—a moral injustice of the first order”—let me ask this basic question: Do you believe that there is a federal constitutional right to samesex marriage?

Answer: There is no federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage.

Now:

 Found that there was a constitutional right for homosexual marriage under the Fourteenth Amendment.

Now, we all expect that when judges have a conflict of interest when a case in which they have a personal interest / contact with that they would recuse themselves.  You know, some standard of ethics?  And the “higher” the status and wielding of power, we expect a higher standard of behavior from them.

Well:  Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan Performs Her First Same-Sex Wedding.  So did Kagan recuse herself, given this 2014 action which showed that she was already predisposed to rule the way she did?  I believe she should have – not an objective judge that we believe we should have.

Problem is, how can this be remedied?  Sadly, when one of the top judges can’t hold themselves to such a standard, what can we regular little people do, now that this person has aided in making a self-deliberative massive change to our society?  I don’t think there is much we can – a selected, not elected, person (may I say a legal bureaucrat?) has made a decision that is now beyond our reach and power to change.

(H/T: Legal Insurrection)

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