Sic Semper Tyrannis
Article 3, Section 2, middle paragraph gives Congress all the power they need to overrule the Supreme Court and discard any of their opinions in this matter:
“In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.”
Those 535 folks in DC who took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution need to get on this right away.
The Supreme Court is not the final say. Congress is.
This is Ted Cruz's ticket back to electability.
An advocate for an Article V Convention.
He would have even my unequivocal support.
A Court System and indeed an entire Government's lawlessness is best restrained by a heavy, concentrated, and overwhelming exercise of the Second Amendment in the Nations Capital.
Sooner or later, it's coming. There will be no middle-ground and no more sitting on the fence. The time to re-take our liberty from a runaway, lawless Supreme Court who's over-extended their Constitutional Authority and subjected 320,000,000 people to it's will is coming.
Prepare.
We have exhausted three of the four boxes traditionally used to manage our formerly free republic. The fourth box beckons.
As a side note to this thread, please consider the following question.
How did citizens react when the corrupt Court legalized abortion in 1973? Although the corrupt Court has likewise unconstitutionally legalized gay marriage imo, I suspect that citizens are much more aware of the dirty work of activist justices this time around which is a good sign if so, particularly since an election year is coming up.
“Rendering the justices directly accountable to the people would provide such a remedy. Twenty states have now adopted some form of judicial retention elections, and the experience of these states demonstrates that giving the people the regular, periodic power to pass judgment on the judgments of their judges strikes a proper balance between judicial independence and judicial accountability. It also restores respect for the rule of law to courts that have systematically imposed their personal moral values.”
I have advocated that very thing for years. However, I also advocate that all “landmark” decisions MUST be ratified by the states just as if it were a constitutional amendment. The SCOTUS has essentially taken it upon themselves to amend the COTUS whenever they feel like it. Their decisions should be ratified by the states before they have ANY force of law.
STATE NULLIFICATION OF UNCONSTITUTIONAL FEDERAL LAWS.
The $4 trillion feds, 80% or about $3 trillion of which is unconstitutional, are beyond fixing. Who is going to force the hundreds of thousands of government workers, bureaucratic heads, and officials who work for the unconstitutional part of the federal government to pack up their bags and go home?
The fight for OUR freedom and OUR Constitution which protects it, is SQUARELY at the STATE level against the feds.
Cruz: We must not submit our constitutional freedoms, and the promise of our nation, to judicial tyranny.
What if, big if here, but just saying. What if, in the next election people are so fed up, that we actually get a super majority republican congress along with a republican president. Enough to impeach these activists judges. Maybe, if, just saying, hoping, praying....
Didn’t this start with the birth control decision in the 1960s?
Cruz does not go far enough.
Constitutional amendments are useless.
Cruz pretends to be incensed, and then plans to do absolutely nothing.
What a hypocrite.
may the Lord bless and protect Ted Cruz and his family.
Constitutional remedies for this lawlessness is the second amendment. Cruz should just come out and say it. Legal means will not stop the insanity.
Ted Cruz at his finest, proving that he has no political equal. I will crawl across broken glass to vote for this man.
Pfl
Great! And, I’ll bet Cruz didn’t have to spend time to put together that critique of the SCOTUS. He has the ability to quickly formulate his thoughts and facts and then communicate them extemporaneously. ....This is a keeper, for me!
Huh, this country elected Clinton twice and Obama twice. What's so magical about elections?