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Good bye, Lenin! (Trailer with English subtitles from Yahoo! Movies)

From one of my professors today in class: “The Supreme Court tends, like Saddam Hussein, like all tyrants, to go crazy. They have no idea what they’re doing.�

Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R) in today's Wall Street Journal:

With the Dred Scott case, decided four years before he took office, President Lincoln faced a judicial decision that he believed was terribly wrong and badly misinterpreted the U.S. Constitution. Here is what Lincoln said: "If the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal." By its decision, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts circumvented the Legislature and the executive, and assumed to itself the power of legislating. That's wrong.