[enots]

Thanks to everybody who has responded to this isssue !!!!!

I received a more recent e-mail from Joe Norman and the response has been excellent (I'm guessing that posting this on FR has been partly responsible for increasing the interest in this matter).

Thanks to all.

Donald Stone

[Pinetop]

Thanks for cluing me in on this. I will definitely make my calls.

[ruoflaw]

Ping!

[enots]

FYI

[Federalist 78]

But it is not possible to give to each department an equal power of self-defense. In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates." -Federalist #51. "Of the three powers above mentioned, the judiciary is next to nothing.''- Fed #78.

GOPtoday.com - News Article

Wednesday, July 23, 2003

WASHINGTON - House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) today joined Representative Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) in announcing the formation of the House Working Group On Judicial Accountability. The group will work to encourage responsible federal judiciary, and identify and prevent judicial activism.

"Co-chairs Lamar Smith and Steve Chabot have recruited a core of smart, tough and aggressive members, and based on the early meetings it's clear that when it comes to judicial abuses they're going to take no prisoners," DeLay said.

"We're going to address the problem of judicial activism at its roots and restore the U.S. Constitution as the North Star of the American judiciary," DeLay said.

This House working group will ensure that judges fulfill their duties without bias and without substituting their philosophy for the law. Some of their duties include:

Identify bad laws that invite judicial activism and hopefully recommend legislation that will prevent it in the future; Involve the House in more federal court nominations because we believe America deserves a United States Senate that will seriously consider this President's mainstream and qualified nominees and allow them a vote; Work with the Judiciary Committee on its vigorous oversight of the federal court system. In addition to Co-Chairs Smith and Chabot, working group members include Representative Todd Akin (R - Mo.), Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R - Tenn.), Rep. John Carter (R - Texas), Rep. John Culberson (R - Texas), Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R - Florida), Rep. Tom DeLay (R - Texas), Rep. Tom Feeney (R - Fla.), Rep. Walter Jones (R - N.C.), Rep. Steve King (R - Iowa), Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R - Colo.) and Rep. Joe Wilson (R - S.C.).

 

 

[Askel5]

Thanks for the heads-up, Donald.


=== This House working group will ensure that judges fulfill their duties without bias and without substituting their philosophy for the law.


This sounds good, I guess, but in a society where politicians -- particularly -- are aware that their "beliefs" on when a human life begins are the stuff of litmus tests, I'm just not sure we have a foundation of objective truth on which to rely from the "I'm personally opposed, but" party.

I'll be very interested to see what comes of this. Trust all is well with you.