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A flap over foreign matter at the Supreme Court (Impeachment for SCOTUS?)
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| 20040311
| Tom Curry
Posted on 03/13/2004 6:15:19 PM PST by steplock
A flap over foreign matter at the Supreme Court
MSNBC
Tom Curry
House members protest use of non-U.S. rulings in big cases
Stepping into a battle between the liberal and conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, Republican House members are protesting the courts increasing use of foreign legal precedents in interpreting the Constitution.
Republican House members Tom Feeney of Florida and Bob Goodlatte of Virginia, joined by more than 50 co-sponsors, will propose a non-binding resolution next week that would express the sense of Congress that judicial decisions should not be based on foreign laws or court decisions.
While Feeney and Goodlatte, who are members of the House Judiciary Committee, cant summon the justices before them to defend their use of foreign precedents, they hope to fire a rhetorical shot across the bow of jurists who increasingly look to foreign legal trends, especially in death penalty and gay rights cases.
Feeney even used the I word, IMPEACHMENT, in an interview with MSNBC.com in his House office Wednesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: bobgoodlatte; constitution; freedom; globalization; impeachment; impeachscotus; judiciarycommittee; scotus; tomfeeney
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posted on
03/13/2004 6:15:20 PM PST
by
steplock
To: steplock
"Throw the bums out" bump!
To: steplock
Well, now... someone starting to figure it out?
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posted on
03/13/2004 6:18:44 PM PST
by
thoughtomator
(All I ever wanted to know about Islam I learned on 9/11)
To: Constantine XIII
I agree......all of em......save THOMAS and SCALIA!
4
posted on
03/13/2004 6:19:19 PM PST
by
PISANO
(Our troops...... will NOT tire...will NOT falter.....and WILL NOT FAIL!!!)
To: Constantine XIII
I never heard of this ANYWHERE.
I accidentaly hit a link unknowingly on a "web designer" web site and up popped this story!
Providential? We can only hope - otherwise we will all be invoking our Second Amendment Rights!
.
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posted on
03/13/2004 6:20:05 PM PST
by
steplock
(http://www.gohotsprings.com)
To: steplock
I hope they pass this resolution.
To: DumpsterDiver
ping
To: steplock
Aw Right! Now they're talking my language. Put the Constitution in front of their faces and tell them that this is all they need for interpretation. Anything else and they will be run them out of office. No more backpedaling by our ELECTED representatives. Take em to the wall.
To: steplock
I think this trend -- using "international" precedent in formulating Supreme Court opinion -- is as vile, disgusting, and dangerous as anything in American history.
Unfortunately, the public is largely unaware of it and its lethality.
To: steplock
This is what I call "thinking outside the box."
10
posted on
03/13/2004 6:28:32 PM PST
by
syriacus
(1/16/04 Kerry smeared Pickering by calling him a tireless advocate for a cross burner)
To: steplock; All
Never happen. And y'all know it. SCOTUS is there for life.
Move along, citizens, there's nothing to see here, go back to your lives, "Friends" is on in ten minutes, anyway...
To: steplock
Well, Sen. Arlene Spectre delved into Scottish law during the Klintoon impeachment proceedings, so why not the Supremes?
After all, multi-culturalism and globalism is where it's at today, and the justices want to be seen as cool dudes and dudettes.....even though most of them are a banana-peel away from slipping off this mortal coil.
Leni
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posted on
03/13/2004 6:29:58 PM PST
by
MinuteGal
(Register now for "FReeps Ahoy 3" . A week of fun, food, freeperistics, starting in the low $700's!)
To: steplock
I remember this came up last summer or fall. Democrats did the usual thing and justified it with idiotic comparisons or calling European laws superior.
Personally i want to staple a copy of the constitution to the forehead of the judges, when I'm done i want to staple a copy of the declaration of Independence to the foreheads of liberals.
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posted on
03/13/2004 6:31:08 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(you tell em i'm commin.... and hells commin with me.)
To: steplock
"The impressions we create in this world are important and they can leave their mark," O'Connor said in remarks quoted in the Atlanta Constitution. Looking to foreign precedents "may not only enrich our own country's decisions, I think it may create that all-important good impression.""
The loons have lost it. MARK this woman she is a fruit.
To: Just mythoughts
O'Connor is going to have to retire pretty soon. I want to see Ruth Bader (Meinhoff) Ginsburg impeached. Hopefully that would send a message. If not, we take out another. Using foreign precedents is SO against their sworn duty to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It's treason, they've got to go.
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posted on
03/13/2004 6:48:06 PM PST
by
johnb838
(Boycott all Hollywood movies besides the Passion during Lent.)
To: Just mythoughts
Lest anyone get any ideas about my usage of the word "MARK" I used it because that is the word O'connor used.
"The impressions we create in this world are important and they can leave their
mark,"
O'Connor said in remarks quoted in the Atlanta Constitution. Looking to foreign precedents "may not only enrich our own country's decisions, I think it may create that all-important good impression.""
The loons have lost it. MARK this woman she is a fruit.
To: Just mythoughts
In response to :
"The impressions we create in this world are important and they can leave their mark," O'Connor said in remarks quoted in the Atlanta Constitution. Looking to foreign precedents "may not only enrich our own country's decisions, I think it may create that all-important good impression."" You wrote:The loons have lost it. MARK this woman she is a fruit.
If the justices want to change the Law of the land, why don't they run for senator or representative?
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posted on
03/13/2004 6:50:00 PM PST
by
syriacus
(1/16/04 Kerry smeared Pickering by calling him a tireless advocate for a cross burner)
To: steplock
The next step in denying God's sovereignty over the United States will go to these nine people . .
"The question is or at least ought to be, how can such a small, godless, minority have such influence over our courts and legislative processes?"
Answer:
U.S. Supreme Court, 2004 - The Oligarchy*
(All Your Sovereignty Are Belong To Us!)
Back Row (left to right): Ginsburg, Souter, Thomas, Breyer
Front Row (left to right): Scalia, Stevens, Rehnquist, O'Connor, Kennedy
oligarchy Pronunciation:
'ä-l&-"gär-kE, 'O-Function:
nounInflected Form(s):
plural -chiesDate: 1542
1 : government by the few
2 : a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes;
also : a group exercising such control
3 : an organization under
oligarchic control
sovereignty
Variant(s): also sovranty /-tE/
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ties
Etymology: Middle English soverainte, from Middle French soveraineté, from Old French, from soverain
Date: 14th century
1 obsolete : supreme excellence or an example of it
2 a : supreme power especially over a body politic b : freedom from external control : AUTONOMY c : controlling influence
3 : one that is SOVEREIGN; especially : an autonomous state
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posted on
03/13/2004 6:52:15 PM PST
by
Happy2BMe
(U.S.A. - - United We Stand - - Divided We Fall - - Support Our Troops - - Vote BUSH)
To: syriacus
"If the justices want to change the Law of the land, why don't they run for senator or representative?"
Exactly, however, they have figured out that nobody will "impeach" them and therefore they have become "gods"!
To: steplock
Impeachment is one way to approach TREASON.
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posted on
03/13/2004 6:53:57 PM PST
by
Siobhan
(+Pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet+)
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