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To: ZULU
I think it is time to start a new national campaign to impeach Supreme Court non-justices. I'm sick and tired of their idiocy.
5 posted on 10/04/2005 12:34:19 AM PDT by dbehsman (One Wellstone memorial (rave party) is enough, thank you!)
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To: dbehsman

That's a nice thought, but it will never happen.

In order to impeach them, you need to prove they committed a high crime or misdemeanor, and rendering a stupid or illogical decision doesn't fall into that category.

Besides, the people who would have do the impeachment are our Congressmen. They are a bunch of craven, gutless, spineless jellfish who are interested in one thing only - getting re-elected - again and again and again - so they can retire with all those nice perks they stole from the tax-payers.

The surest way to continue getting relected is not to rock the boat. By allowing the unelected, unremovable federal justices on the Supreme Court and lower federal courts control the shots, as it were, they are removing themselves from the line of fire by the public in the event they make a decision which is received negatively by a particular voting block.

We need term limits and referendum and recall and initiative and referendum - on the federal level as well as the state and local levels. But our elected representatives - and the courts - will fight that tooth and nail.

We have come a long way from Andrew Jackson who in effect told the Supreme Court to go screw itself when he disagreed with a decision of theirs, and even FDR - who, although I can't stand the guy otherwise - had the guts to tell the Court he was going to "pack" it if it tried to block his programs.

The problem isn't primarily with the Courts - its with elected officials who don't want to respond to the majority of their constituents on matters of significant importance regarding traditional American values and original intent in the Constitution.

And the problem lies with constituents who refuse to become actively involved with political processes on the local level and in the nominating processes and who conitune to re-elect nebishes to office.

Its Congress and the President's job to take on the Federal Courts when they get out of line.

And its OUR responsibility to take on Congress and the President when they don't.

There shoud be a unified scream of outrage at George Bush II for betraying his constituency by nominating this woman to the Supreme Court instead of fighting to get a candidate as reflective of Republican values and ideals approved, as Clinton did of candidates who reflected Democrat values and ideals when he was President.

But check out the posting on this subject on this very forum and you will see again and again people apologizing for Bush and suggesting that that woman will make a good judge.

Perhaps.

But that's really not the point, is it?


19 posted on 10/04/2005 6:37:16 AM PDT by ZULU (Fear the government which fears your guns. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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