Posted on 08/07/2010 5:40:22 AM PDT by jazminerose
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government . . . -Thomas Jefferson
California voters have long been scoffed at by activist judges substituting their own agenda in place of the law. The ignominious Jerry Brown state Supreme Court appointee, Rose Bird, habitually overturned death penalty cases because she personally didn’t approve of the death penalty. The people of the Golden State eventually threw her out of office.
The California voters passed Proposition 187 in 1994 by a margin of a mere 58.93%. Prop 187 would have, in accordance with Article II, Section 8 of the Constitution, denied tax payer funded benefits to illegal aliens. It took just three days for a federal district court judge to spit in the eyes of the voters and enjoin enforcement of a statute passed by a clear majority of the voters. The federal court eventually issued a permanent injunction . The new statute contained such inflammatory language as:
834b. (a) Every law enforcement agency in California shall fully cooperate with the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service regarding any person who is arrested if he or she is suspected of being present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws.
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If I & R is legal in CA then there must be a sore loser law to prevent this overturning by the Court when the losing side doesn’t like the outcome.
I had this very conversation recently. Laws need to be rewritten whereby the will of the people,so long as its not opposed to the constitution,will be the ruling authority. We must have a billion laws between the federal government and the states by now(yes i exaggerate but one day it will be the number)and its all to easy for one ruling to be interpreted by a judge to tell the majority to take a hike.
The Founders really believed that the courts would be “above politics”. It only took a few years for Marshall to prove them wrong. It is LONG overdue for the judges and justices to be accountable to the people.
Impeach and remove. Or will that be “ruled” unconstitutional?
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