Conservatives Gather To Confront Judicial Activism

Agape Press ^ | April 8, 2005 | Chad Groening and Bill Fancher

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Conservatives Gather To Confront Judicial Activism

By Chad Groening and Bill Fancher
April 8, 2005

(AgapePress) - A conservative webmaster joined a group of activists this week to address the problem of activist judges that attempt to advance agendas and influence social policy by legislating from the bench.

This past week, RightMarch.com president Bill Greene attended a Washington, D.C., event called the "Confronting the Judicial War on Faith Conference." He says the conservative gathering aimed to address how to deal with the out of control judiciary in the United States.

"What we're really trying to focus on now at RightMarch.com, in conjunction with a number of other conservative, Christian, and pro-family groups nationwide, is this issue of judicial tyranny," Green says.

According to the RightMarch.com spokesman, activists judges are flouting the checks and balances that are supposed to be in place in American government. "We have judges on the state and federal level that are directly ignoring the will of people, he says. What we have is a judiciary that believes in judicial supremacy."

When this happens, Green says, "Instead of a separation of powers, ..... what we have is ... judicial supremacy where judges get to make the rules."

In fact, the RightMarch.com spokesman says, in this unbalanced scenario, the judges "get to basically make the laws instead of the legislators that are elected to do so, and the executive branch that's supposed to carry out what the legislature has passed."

One of the most egregious examples of the problem occurred recently, Green asserts, with the death of Terri Schiavo. The web-based activist believes the legislative and executive branches of government had the authority to intervene in the Schiavo case and stop the court-ordered starvation death of the disabled Florida woman.

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The article also mentions that in spite of the polls reported by the LameStreamMedia, if properly informed of Terri Schiavo's condition, 80% said it was wrong to remove her feeding tube, alluding to this poll linked on RightMarch.com.

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