A flap over foreign matter at the Supreme Court (Impeachment for SCOTUS?)

MSNBC ^ | 20040311 | Tom Curry

[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 court’s 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, can’t 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.

[Constantine XIII]

"Throw the bums out" bump!

[thoughtomator]

Well, now... someone starting to figure it out?

[PISANO]

I agree......all of em......save THOMAS and SCALIA!

[steplock]

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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[Unam Sanctam]

I hope they pass this resolution.

[DumpsterDiver]

ping

[taxesareforever]

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.

[M. Thatcher]

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.

[syriacus]

This is what I call "thinking outside the box."

[Old Sarge]

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...

[MinuteGal]

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

[cripplecreek]

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.

[Just mythoughts]

"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.

[johnb838]

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.

[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.

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[syriacus]

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?

[Happy2BMe]

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

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Function: noun
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Date: 1542
1 : government by the few
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3 : an organization under oligarchic control

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Function: noun
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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

[Just mythoughts]

"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"!

[Siobhan]

Impeachment is one way to approach TREASON.