Candidate values property rights
Would you have any litmus tests for a Supreme Court justice on cases like Kelo, for example, cases that really matter to libertarians, libertarian principles? Benson asked.
Yeah I think Kelo is one that really does stand out, Johnson responded. Although we dont have litmus tests, but Kelo really stands out as a litmus test, in my opinion.
For me, that would be issue number 2 in importance.
September 6th, 2016 at 6:00 pm
The litmus test is built into the constitution; one must uphold, support and defend the constitution.
September 6th, 2016 at 6:25 pm
Aren’t Libertarians anti civil rights? They’re leaders don’t like guns.
Johnson and Weld are making this stuff too easy. Oh, you admit they don’t like guns but you deny that libertarians have leaders. Well, why do you vote?
These two clowns are probably the ones in the woods trying to get little children to vote for them. They are that far off from Paul and Rockwell.
September 6th, 2016 at 6:31 pm
I would think that a Libertarian litmus test for SCOTUS would be supporting ALL of the Bill of Rights according to their grammatical context and torestrain the government within its delegated powers, to elaborate on what Lyle wrote. Johnson-Weld seem to be some mixture of leftist and libertine views.
September 6th, 2016 at 9:22 pm
Unfortunately (fortunately?) issue number one is whether you have a snowball’s chance in hell of ever being able to effect or affect any of your other issues.
September 6th, 2016 at 10:58 pm
Annnnnd it’s JTC for the win. Now that shouldn’t be so hard should it?
September 7th, 2016 at 10:21 am
And the Constitution must be read and applied objectively:
“The true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely gathered from the words, but may be sought also in extraneous circumstances provided they do not contradict the express words of the law.” –Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 1808. ME 12:59
“On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.” –Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 1823. ME 15:449
And not:
“The true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely gathered from the words, but may be sought also in extraneous circumstances provided they do not contradict the express words of the law.” –Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 1808.
“On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.” –Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 1823.
September 7th, 2016 at 10:25 am
Excuse the repeated Jefferson quote. I meant to follow with:
“How strangely does the tool of a tyrant pervert the plain meaning of words.” –Samuel Adams
That is the problem with many of our black-robbed dictators!
September 7th, 2016 at 9:14 pm
Kelo is a good litmus test –
Do you prefer the Federal Government to be an iron fist in a tungsten carbide glove when it supports your idea of ‘rights’ over the States idea of ‘rights’?
September 8th, 2016 at 12:59 pm
Gary Johnson: Jewish Bakers Should Be Forced to Bake Nazi Cakes
He also supports gun control and taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood.
Shouldn’t the Libertarian candidate actually hold libertarian values?
Asking for a friend.
September 8th, 2016 at 2:08 pm
Hey Never Trumpers, you should reconsider. Here is why:
http://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/the-flight-93-election/
September 8th, 2016 at 2:27 pm
I’ve been a registered Libertarian for many years. Time to change that. These so-called Libertarians are f-ing idiots, and I wouldn’t vote for any of them. That’s been the case for a few cycles, now. What the hell happened to the party?
September 8th, 2016 at 11:30 pm
@Will, “What the hell happened to the party?”
L vs. l. Guess they don’t call it the “shift” key for nothing.
September 8th, 2016 at 11:41 pm
OTOH, Trump still loves him some Kelo – http://reason.com/blog/2016/07/20/republican-platform-denounces-kelo-the-e – and likewise loves denying rights based on secret lists – http://reason.com/blog/2016/06/15/no-fly-list-no-guns-trump-agrees-with-ob .
Good times.
September 9th, 2016 at 1:10 pm
“OTOH, Trump still loves him some Kelo –”
Can’t see the forest for all those trees, can you? When you are digging holes to bury your guns I hope you remember how your foolish pride lead to this.
September 9th, 2016 at 2:16 pm
So you’re saying that if I don’t vote for the state-loving, narcissistic, lying Democrat, we’ll get the person he funded?
Well, damn, that’s a hell of a choice.
September 10th, 2016 at 5:26 pm
It’s a Hobson’s choice. You’re right, there is no choice. Take a barf bag, vote for Trump, throw up a little. Pray for the best.