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The Governor of Florida allowed his office and leadership be usurped by a judge. He will never recover his credibility. He has displayed himself to be of feeble character. Too bad it was at Terri’s expense. When called upon to lead, he coward.

The buck stops at the Governor’s office and not with some judge.

You have nailed it. The Bush brothers have sealed their own fates by showing bluster then running for cover after some judicial nutcase like Greer issues some small paragraph on his word processor.

Post 1 & Post 2 - BUMP !!

Can't take time to read the others. Trying to put together the FR Terri Situation Room.

You guys are way off to imagine that JEB should take the law into his own hands. Folks we ARE a nation of laws, here. In That Hugh is right. But he is WRONG to say we cannot do anything.

Here is the last part of an op ed I just read....

Today, unfortunately, we are not faced with isolated Courts that are troublesome nor are we just faced with just a Supreme Court problem. We are faced with an entire court system all up and down the line that is acting contrary to both the majority will and the laws made by nearly every law maker from the States to the Federal governments.

I must say first, though, that I am not recommending civil disobedience to court rulings; that would be a step too far. As I said, the United States is a land ruled by laws and to outright ignore Court rulings would tend to destroy the rule of law rather than mend it. But we have at our disposal as citizens several weapons to use against the judiciary in many states.

The vote

Over the next several decades we need to vote every single sitting judge out of office to show them that they are not an imperial presence beyond all accountability. Yes we would loose some good judges, but even the good judges have backed up the ones who have gone off track. We need to bring a democratic check to this branch of government.

After all, the courts are a co-equal branch of government with the legislature, not a higher one. They must realize that they cannot just do what ever they feel like doing regardless of what the law actually states and what the people want.

The Rules

We also need to change lifetime appointments so that these people are not given a free reign with no accountability. A judge who knows he is unaccountable to every citizen he is supposedly tasked with protecting almost assures arrogance. We all know the saying that absolute power corrupts absolutely and we are seeing this maxim borne out with the Courts today.

Abolishing Circuits

Congress may not remove a judge except by impeachment and that has traditionally been one of the hardest things to achieve. The Constitution says that judges "shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour". However, "good Behaviour" , does not exclude bucking Congress or the will of the people.

So, while we cannot just fire a wayward judge we can eliminate the circuit over which they preside which would leave them without duties to execute and, therefore, out of a job. The Constitution says in part in Article III, Section 1: "The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. "

Clearly, the Constitution states that since Congress has the power to create "such inferior" Courts, it also has the power to abolish them, as well. Jefferson took advantage of this power during his presidency, for instance, so there is precedent.

Pressure our Representatives

We simply must make this a focus issue when we interact with our elected representatives. We must, as a people, impress upon our leaders that we are just plain sick and tired of these wild judges. We should let them know that we will be voting them out of office, too, unless they begin to think a little harder about their judicial appointments.

Furthermore, we need to let our politicians know that it is they who are responsible for creating law, not the Courts. And they must take this role more seriously than they now do. They need to stop allowing the Courts to make all their decisions for them. As it stands now we do not have a democracy, we have a tyranny of the Judicial minority and our law makers must take back their turf.

We are a nation ruled by laws, and this cannot be abrogated. But, we can bring these out of control Courts back down to earth by utilizing the power we do have as Americans under that very law, without breaking it. Its about time we took up the power vested in us and did so.

(find it at http://www.publiusforum.blogspot.com It is called "What do we DO about these Judges?")

I'd have to agree with that, 100%, G.