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To: capitan_refugio; GOPcapitalist
[cr] They were meeting to hear an issue in which they had no jurisdiction. They were attempting to act as a rogue court. This is precisely why the Suspension Clause was proposed and exists.

This is the new capitan_kerryfugio legal doctrine. The Executive decides whether the Judicial branch has jurisdiction. They enforce their legal opinion with soldiers and guns. Judges who defy the Executive are pistol-whipped off the bench and dragged away.

1,584 posted on 11/27/2004 1:55:22 PM PST by nolu chan
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This is the new capitan_kerryfugio legal doctrine. The Executive decides whether the Judicial branch has jurisdiction. They enforce their legal opinion with soldiers and guns. Judges who defy the Executive are pistol-whipped off the bench and dragged away.

Sounds suspiciously Stalinist...or Lincolnian.

1,608 posted on 11/27/2004 5:05:26 PM PST by GOPcapitalist ("Marxism finds it easy to ally with Islamic zealotism" - Ludwig von Mises)
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