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To: Congressman Billybob
I agree with your sentiment, and we must start someplace. This place is as good as any to start drawing bold lines.

But this does not cure the deeper problem of judges simply ignoring the plain words and intent of the Constitution for their own nefarious ends. The Campaign Finance Reform Act, twisting of the "commerce" clause, and uncountable other wholesale perversions of the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th and 10th Amendments which all seem pretty clearly written - and just as clearly ignored - are examples, just for starters.

What makes you think these same Soviet-style judges will obey, rather than twist, the clause in your newly minted 28th?

No. There has to be available sticks against these judges and their putrid accomplises to go along with the succulent carrots of their lofty offices.

So far, I haven't seen the right ones, but I'm sure better minds than mine can come up with them. Impeachment hasn't proven to be a deterrent. Perhaps a combination of elections and term limits is? They are too far removed from the "will of the people" and have instead become an ongoing Constitutional Convention in their own eyes.

In any event, there has to be a quick and punishing alternative for their stepping all over the clear meaning of that Constitution. I don't think merely passing some additional twistable phrases in an additional Amendment will do it for very long.

41 posted on 03/08/2004 9:49:36 AM PST by Gritty ("An independent judiciary does not mean judges independent of the Constitution"-Thomas Sowell)
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To: Gritty
How about congressional review of "legislation from the bench." If one source of legislation gets reviewed why not the other? Unconstitutional decisions could be stricken, just as unconstitutional laws are.
42 posted on 03/08/2004 11:45:28 AM PST by Old Dirty Bastiat
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