Posted on 06/30/2015 11:37:48 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
In Justice Scalia’s dissenting opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges he said, “It is of no special importance to me what the law says about marriage. It is of overwhelming importance, however, who it is that rules me. Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of nine lawyers on the Supreme Court.”
Whatever one’s views on marriage, our Founders made it clear that the federal government is a child of the states -- not the other way around. The Supreme Court’s decision to legislate from the bench on a matter rightly left to the purview of the states is among the most blatant instances of federal overreach this country has ever seen.
Gov. Mike Huckabee, who also endorses the Convention of States Project, laid out the problem clearly in a recent op-ed:
Can the Supreme Court "decide" this? They cannot. Under our Constitution, we have three, co-equal branches of government. The courts can interpret law but cannot create it. The ruling still requires congressional funding and executive branch enforcement. The Supreme Court is not the "Supreme Branch," and it is certainly not the Supreme Being. If they can unilaterally make law, and just do whatever they want, then we have judicial tyranny.
Throughout our nation's history, the court has abused its power and delivered morally unconscionable rulings. They have rationalized the destruction of innocent human life, defined African Americans as property and justified Japanese-American internment camps. U.S. presidents, including Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, ignored Supreme Court rulings, rejecting the notion that the Supreme Court can circumvent the Constitution and "make law."
I also reject the idea of "judicial supremacy" as just another flawed, failed feature of big government, inconsistent with what our founders fought a revolution to establish.
But there is hope. A constitutional recourse to judicial tyranny is gaining momentum around the country. A Convention of States, called under Article V of the Constitution, can impose constitutional limits on the federal government’s power -- limits that will ensure an end to the overreach we witnessed last week.
So what can YOU do?
1. Learn about Article V and the Convention of States movement. All the most important info is on our Learn page.
2. Click here to sign petition. It will be automatically sent directly to your State Senator and House Member.
3. Click here to find out how to become a leader for our effort in your area. We need more District Captains, and we'd love to work with you.
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We can restore our country to the principles of self-governance upon which our country was founded. The Founders gave us the tool -- it's time we use it.
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I personally am surrounded in every aspect of my existence by supporters of these crazy people. My boss and others at work are aspects of the new legalized insanity.
I am getting too old to be fully engaged.
Just as in Viet Nam, we did not lose, we just surrendered.
That alone is a sin before God.
We don’t surrender. We’re/you’re not alone. We fight until we can’t stand, take a breath and then we fight until we no longer breath. We don’t quit and we sure as hell don’t give up. You’re not too old. Stop that.
God bless you Jim and may He place His healing hand on you as he has so far placed it on me. He has room there for both of us.
Keep them entertained 24 hours a day for about 2 months. No escape to Canada this time.
Any country that would allow the likes of Ginsberg, Kagan, Sotamayor etc. to rule over them by judicial fiat Is gasping the last breaths of a dying nation.
Article V ping!
May God bless and strengthen Jim Robinson!
Post-Republic America is beyond the salvation of elections.
“Any country that would allow the likes of Ginsberg, Kagan, Sotamayor etc. to rule over them by judicial fiat Is gasping the last breaths of a dying nation.”
That’s a tough pill to swallow, but I’d be hardpressed to argue otherwise.
>> Any country that would allow the likes of Ginsberg, Kagan, Sotamayor etc.
Kagan and Sotamayor were Obama’s nominees the Republicans accepted.
The citizens are lied to by high ranking candidates/officials from both parties most egregiously. The courts overrule the citizens on a continual basis. The MSM, Hollywood, universities, and public schools advance Leftism all the time. The average, well-intentioned citizen is at a serious disadvantage.
The only way I have left to fight is measured in certain calibers. I’ll do what I can when the time is right.
Thanks, Jim.
How to fight it? Rail. Tar. Feathers. Just like in the old days.
Most excellent!
It’s dead Jim. Fifty million foreigners entered this country in the last 25 years alone. The democRATS and rePUGlicans allowed this invasion to happen. One hundred thousand Muslims come here EVERY SINGLE YEAR. There is no turning the ship now. We are all on the Titanic and it is already sinking. The Zombie apocalypse is at hand.
Jim, Our elected reps already have the tools to stop the judicial tyranny: Congress has the power to Impeach/remove Judges and the power to control what issues the Court can hear. IMHO More Amendments at this time on them is a waste of time because one, they will rule on how they apply and 2 without the will power of the ones who have the authority to enforce the power the People already have over them its going nowhere.
To be effective there needs to be removal of the bad judges, a direct action we already have the power to do. Yet not one mention of this by our reps...
Yea, verily yea.
Thanks for the ping.
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