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To: P-Marlowe
Where in the Constitution does it say that a Supreme Court OPINION is the law of the land?

You want to re-litigate Marbury v Madison?

402 posted on 09/04/2015 10:29:22 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave; xzins; wagglebee; Jim Robinson
You want to re-litigate Marbury v Madison?

If Marbury v. Madison authorized the Supreme Court to issue unconstitutional decrees and make them the Law of the Land, then YES IT IS TIME TO RE-LITIGATE IT.

Mark Levin has proposed a consitutional amendment to allow for Congress and the President to override an Opinion of the Supreme Court.

I personally do not see where that is necessary. Congress controls the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and all lower courts. Congress already has that power. They have just never bothered to exercise it because traditionally the Supreme Court is seen as an independent non-political referee. However in the last few decades (since Griswold v. Conn and even before) the Supreme Court has become an activist political arm and no longer an independent referee. They have joined one of the teams.

So YES INDEED, it is time to revisit Marbury v. Madison. It is time to ensure that the Supreme Court returns to its original function.

Are you unwilling to join in that fight? Are you instead rooting for this clerk to bow to judicial tyrants simply because 9 robes tyrants told her to?

Are we no longer a FREE REPUBLIC?

FWIW, one thing Congress could do is to strip the Lower Courts of any jurisdiction to hear any appeals in regard to the constitutionality of State Laws and force the Supreme Court to hear every one of them or just pass.

My guess is that if the Supreme Court had had to hear and opine on 50 different individual cases on this issue, that they would never have reached the decision they did. They would also tire of being activist as their docket would be so full that they would not have time for anything else.

Right now they let the lower courts do their dirty work and then they deny appeals as a way to avoid having to do their job.

415 posted on 09/04/2015 10:45:42 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Tagline pending.)
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To: SoothingDave

Marbury v Madison should have been relitigated many times over. It is an affront to the Republic that 11 east or west coasters all from Yale or Harvard and not an Evangelical in the bunch issue edicts based on their own personal preferences to 300 million Americans. You are a big fan of elitist oligarchies.


507 posted on 09/04/2015 12:51:39 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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