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(46,317 posts)
Mon Jan 25, 2016, 06:42 PM Jan 2016

60 years ago the right-wing wanted to impeach Supreme Court justices that ruled against racists...

They even invoked God to justify their hatred.

What was, still is...

Louie Gohmert: 'It's Time To Start Impeaching Judges' For Marriage Equality Ruling

Submitted by Miranda Blue on Monday, 1/25/2016 4:51 pm

Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, said last week that “it’s time to start impeaching” Supreme Court justices in response to the Obergefell marriage equality ruling, which he called an “illegal decision” that amounted to the court declaring itself to be God. In an interview with Florida talk radio host Joyce Kaufman on Friday, Gohmert falsely claimed that church-state separation decisions in the 1950s and 1960s mandated that “you can’t talk about God in schools and public places.” But, he said, the Supreme Court did something even worse with Obergefell. “The Supreme Court said, ‘You know, we told you you couldn’t use ‘God,’ now here’s the new line: We’re God,’” he said. “‘We are your God. Forget what God, Moses, Jesus ever said, we are your God now, the five of us in the majority, you do as we tell you.’” Gohmert went on to repeat his call for Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan to be impeached for participating in the decision after having performed legal same-sex marriages. “We have two of them who had done same-sex marriages before they participated, they were disqualified, but they illegally participated, it’s an illegal decision, and it’s time to start impeaching judges and remove them from the Supreme Court,” he said. Kaufman, for her part, seemed to say that Ginsburg and Kagan should have been disqualified for “being gay.”

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/louie-gohmert-its-time-start-impeaching-judges-marriage-equality-ruling#sthash.6VKoolzL.dpuf

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60 years ago the right-wing wanted to impeach Supreme Court justices that ruled against racists... (Original Post) Archae Jan 2016 OP
If I said what I hope happens to Gohmert, Agent Mike would have a stroke... First Speaker Jan 2016 #1
They should have been impeached for Bush v. Gore... Human101948 Jan 2016 #2
They really hate America. They want a day when Gays and Blacks are either in the closet randys1 Jan 2016 #3
Can we burn witches too? L. Coyote Jan 2016 #4
 

Human101948

(3,457 posts)
2. They should have been impeached for Bush v. Gore...
Mon Jan 25, 2016, 06:44 PM
Jan 2016

A ruling with no precedent, good for one time only.

randys1

(16,286 posts)
3. They really hate America. They want a day when Gays and Blacks are either in the closet
Mon Jan 25, 2016, 06:49 PM
Jan 2016

or waxing their cars.

Our job, as the adults, is to not allow that, ever.

Then they will love America again, then and only then

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