Posted on 03/03/2005 5:34:47 AM PST by totherightofu
Chief Justice Rehnquist said in his report on Friday that it had been clear since early in the country's history that "a judge's judicial acts may not serve as a basis for impeachment."
(Excerpt) Read more at heraldtribune.com ...
"ARTICLE III
Section 1. Judicial powers. Tenure. Compensation.
The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may, from time to time, ordain and establish. The judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behaviour,..."
"Article V...
2. This constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, any thing in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding."
simply by relying on foreign law as precedent, the USSC has demonstrated lapse of "good behaviour" - and that is the LEAST of their extraconstitutional errors.
Fire the bastards.
Not totally true. Judges can be impeached at the whim of Congress. However, a judge's juficial acts, barring some form of corruption, should not be used by Congress as a basis of impeachment. Impeaching judges becauses we don't like their decisions is not the proper approach to this problem.
I have another question here....What happens to the 19 states in our Union that has decided they can sentence a juvenile? Do those laws just go away? Didn't the people of those states make their decisions? "We The People"....what does that count for is these runaway Judges can do what they want??????
Rehnquist never said that. This headline is a complete distortion (trying to make the Court look bad) of the meaning of his comments. Very dishonest.
Why are you buying into this lie?
Congress can delimit the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. This would make the highest court that did hear the case the last word.
Congress can delimit either the original or appellate jurisdiction of lesser federal courts (not explicitly stated, but implicit in the fact that such lesser courts are the creatures of Congress).
Congress may not transfer the original jurisdiction of certain types of cases (none of which are relevant here) from the Supreme Court to a lesser federal court.
None of this enables Congress to remove original jurisdiction of any case from the federal judiciary as a whole (fortunately -- if they could, the liberals would have long ago passed a law saying, 1)Hand In Your Guns, 2)No, You Can't Appeal Item 1 In Court, and 3)NYAH NYAH NYAH).
I can not post anything close to what that statement provokes within me.
But most of you know what I'm thinking.
Perhaps when we are invaded, and before the SCOTUS can escape to Europa, we may off their heads? ;)
Don't put it past the Supreme Court to use a parking ticket appeal to mandate reparations or same-sex marriage.
Or worse, can't impeach a president who commits treason, bribery, extortion and a host of other felonies and covers it up with a fat intern and a hummer.
The Congress is a corrupt as Clinton himself.
Perhaps so, but somebody has to have the power to say "nope, you can't do that, it's unconstitutional" and make it stick. For obvious reasons, this power cannot be vested in the political branches of government that make the laws (including the unconstitutional ones) in the first place.
So are elections in the Middle east.
This is great! I'm glad we are having conversations on this subject. In our system of checks and balances, no one should be above the law, no one. Ijust hope it goes somewhere.
Well I'll tell you what. If the President of the United States ordered Marines to move into the Judicial Building and remove his ass from the bench and lock him in the brig, I would think that that would serve as an Impeachment.
These people have GOT to go.
I would as well, but desparate times call for desparate measures and these little tin horn dictators in black are creating desparate times in this country.
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