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To: antiRepublicrat
This law didn't change a thing. All it did was give the case a chance under the federal courts using the same set of laws that had already led to decisions that no rights have been violated. Don't blame the courts, blame the legislators.

It is not the fault of legislators in the majority. The law was good enough. ANY law would have been dismissed by the courts. The courts from bottom to top are together on this to flaunt the naked power they have to legislate and enforce and show Congress and the President to be irrelevant.

You need 67 votes in the Senate and 290 votes in the House to amend the Constitution and strip the court of its usurped authority, making enforcement by the President and governors explicitly optional, stripping the court generally of the power of mandamus and not allowing any decisions at all on social issues.
213 posted on 03/23/2005 10:40:31 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth...)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
ANY law would have been dismissed by the courts.

I think that's a bit paranoid. I read the decisions, and it looks like they are perfectly applying the current law that had already failed Terry. That law left it up to the discretion of the courts, and that discretion is ruled by law and precedent, unless of course you have an activist judge.

, making enforcement by the President and governors explicitly optional, stripping the court generally of the power of mandamus and not allowing any decisions at all on social issues.

Wow, an autocracy! Not good.

247 posted on 03/23/2005 11:22:03 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

That's some good delusional thinking there boy. Real good.


286 posted on 03/23/2005 1:48:53 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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