[backwoods-engineer]

Indeed, and it was this same Judge Stephens that took away the rights of NC citizens to carry a firearm-- either openly or concealed-- at the NC State Fair, with only the stroke of his mighty pen. This guy is a statist from the word "go".

[Jacquerie]

What is needed are a couple of judicial scalps every few years. The impeachment and removal of a few state and federal judges would do wonders. Many have assumed supra-constitutional powers that muddy the separation of powers. I’m reading John Adams’ “Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States.” The take-away lesson is that freedom is impossible if government is out of balance between the one, the few, and the many.