Courts still need restraint - (Tom Delay's remedy; impeach judges, or change the law?)

The Terri Schiavo case so outraged House Republican leader Tom DeLay that he has all but declared war on the judiciary. Heaven knows judicial arrogance needs discussion, but a politician under siege for alleged ethics violations who is upset over a single outcome that two-thirds of the country agrees with is not the person to get discussion going.

After federal courts refused to act in the Schiavo case despite the new jurisdiction that Delay helped create, DeLay said the courts had ``run amok'' in abortion and school prayer cases. Congress, he said, ``must make sure the judges administer their responsibilities.''

Some conservative activists started muttering about impeaching Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy (he's the author of a few recent decisions they don't like).

Other GOP leaders were aghast, fearing that the hullabaloo would threaten their effort to win Senate votes on judicial nominees threatened with filibuster. And sky-is-falling editorial writers wondered if the judiciary would survive.

The uncomfortable fact is that DeLay is on to something. Judges at all levels all over the country long have been throwing precedent and logic to the winds to reach results they want. In Massachusetts we recall federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity's failed experiment in running the Boston schools and our Supreme Judicial Court's more recent discovery of a ``right'' of gays to marry. We are not alone.

Activist judges seem to have forgotten that their decisions must be judged reasonable both by people who don't like the result and people who do. Case in point: Kennedy's opinion outlawing the death penalty for 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds. Using the trend of laws in other countries to justify it strikes us as unreasonable indeed.

There are a number of tools that can be used legitimately against out-of-bounds judges. (Cutting court budgets is not one.) The Constitution grants Congress power over the Supreme Court's jurisdiction. The framers thought impeachment was the remedy for judges guilty of ``a series of deliberate usurpations'' - a series, not a single case (``The Federalist,'' No. 81). Ending nomination filibusters can be thought of as another. As 11 states reminded us last November, constitutions can be amended. New laws can be enacted.

If any of this is undertaken, it should be done soberly. In an ideal world, it would be led by public figures of stature who are not involved in partisan politics.

The Schiavo case has precious little to do with the problem. In her case, all the judges applied the law as they found it. If it takes up DeLay's request to examine the actions of the federal courts in this case, the House Judiciary Committee should concentrate on whether changes are needed in the law, not the judges.

All THAT and so much more FV! Terri was totally denied DUE PROCESS! She NEVER had consistent representation, in her absence, let alone aloud to address the court!

The Guardian ad Litem that Greer appointed was completely IGNORED by the court, upon turning in the report he was odered by greer to complete. Why? Perhaps because the Guardian recognized terri's right to due process, thus he recommended that Terri be assigned a guardian ad litem, either himself, or anoher.

Because the GAL clearly found no evidence of clear and convincing evidence as to Michael schiavo, given the clear and convincing evidence, which was a conflict of interest!

Because the GAL DID not recommend that MS petition be granted, thus not recommending the feeding tube be removed, which was the core reason why Greer assigned a GAL to conduct an investigation and file a report!

Yet, Greer KICKED HIM OUT, because FELOS cried *BIAS*!

How many people know that the GAL's report also indicates that Terri responded to DEEP PAIN stimuli? No functioning CORTEX they say?

**Then, the stomach lining dries out, causing vomiting and dry heaves. Brain cells dry out, too, causing convulsions. The respiratory tract dries out and thick secretions develop, a process that may plug the lungs and airways. Eventually, after the body suffers all these effects, all the major organs fail, including the lungs, heart and brain.***

YOU forgot these additional details of Terri's gruesome "DEATH PROCESS"!

ALL OF THE VITAL ORGANS BEGIN TO LITERALLY *CRACK*!

Hi Jim!

I don't know HOW I did this....but I did! lol I actually copied the pdf text to my word and copy/pasted! You have no idea how long I've been trying to figure THAT out! :)
Geeesh I hope I can remember how I did this!

So sorry it took so long, but I saw your post about 20-30 minutes ago and have been trying to figure this thing out ever since!

Here's the DECLARATION:

Declaration of Constitutional Restoration

The United States of America has been uniquely blessed among nations because it was founded as a nation “under God” upon Biblical principles of
liberty, virtue, and self government.

The Founders in the Declaration of Independence emphatically stated the self-evident truth that God, not government, confers inalienable rights — chief
among them “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

We, the undersigned, believe that America has been blessed, because, throughout our history, Americans have publicly acknowledged God as the
Creator and honored Him.

We believe that America is in grave danger because, increasingly, the judicial branch of our government has become hostile to the concept of faith and
to people of faith.

Where the contributions of religion once were celebrated by our government and protected as necessary for the public welfare, today, many judges are
determined to prohibit any public manifestation of faith. Not only does this fly in the face of history, it also contradicts such expressions of civic
religion as “In God We Trust” on our currency and the President taking his oath of office on a Bible.

What our courts once protected and celebrated they now forbid, under the guise of the “separation of church and state” — a phrase not found in the
Constitution and a concept foreign to establishment clause constitutional jurisprudence prior to 1947.

The American people are being told to deny their heritage and disavow the truth upon which our Republic was founded. Judges are rewriting our
history, destroying representative government and unconstitutionally forcing on the nation radical social experiments — including same-sex marriage
and a culture of death.

We therefore call upon the Congress of the United States to exercise its constitutional authority to stop judicial tyranny – the revision of the original
meaning of the text of the Constitution under the guise of interpretation. At a bare minimum, we believe the following is necessary to stem the rising
tide of judicial tyranny:

1) The Senate should restore its long standing tradition by no longer allowing the minority to block a vote to confirm judicial nominees.

2) Congress should withdraw jurisdiction from all federal courts to hear any challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act, state marriage acts, or state
marriage constitutional provisions defining marriage as a relationship between one man and one woman, which are claimed to be a violation of the U.

S. Constitution.
3) Congress should withdraw jurisdiction from all federal courts to hear all challenges to the acknowledgment of God as a violation of the First
Amendment Establishment clause, rightfully returning these matters to the individual states.

4) Congress must impeach and remove Supreme Court justices and judges of the lower federal courts who insist on substituting their own views for
the original meaning of the Constitution.

5) Congress must impeach and remove Supreme Court justices and judges of the lower federal courts who base a decision of Constitutional
interpretation in whole or in part on foreign law.

6) When and where appropriate, Congress should reduce or eliminate the funding of federal courts, the salaries of judges excepted, that overstep their
constitutional authority.

Constitutionally defiant judges have brought us to a national crisis. Such activist judges have abandoned their legitimate role, usurped the authority of
the other branches of government and created a tyranny far worse than that which the Founding Fathers rebelled against.

Therefore, firm measures are now required to preserve, protect, and defend our Constitution from out-of-control judges bent on forcing their will on
the American people.

We the undersigned appeal to Almighty God to be merciful to these United States of America and request His Divine assistance in restoring our
Republic once again to be “One Nation Under God” with religious liberty and justice for all.

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Here's the DECLARATION:

Declaration of Constitutional Restoration

The United States of America has been uniquely blessed among nations because it was founded as a nation “under God” upon Biblical principles of
liberty, virtue, and self government.

The Founders in the Declaration of Independence emphatically stated the self-evident truth that God, not government, confers inalienable rights — chief
among them “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

We, the undersigned, believe that America has been blessed, because, throughout our history, Americans have publicly acknowledged God as the
Creator and honored Him.

We believe that America is in grave danger because, increasingly, the judicial branch of our government has become hostile to the concept of faith and
to people of faith.

Where the contributions of religion once were celebrated by our government and protected as necessary for the public welfare, today, many judges are
determined to prohibit any public manifestation of faith. Not only does this fly in the face of history, it also contradicts such expressions of civic
religion as “In God We Trust” on our currency and the President taking his oath of office on a Bible.

What our courts once protected and celebrated they now forbid, under the guise of the “separation of church and state” — a phrase not found in the
Constitution and a concept foreign to establishment clause constitutional jurisprudence prior to 1947.

The American people are being told to deny their heritage and disavow the truth upon which our Republic was founded. Judges are rewriting our
history, destroying representative government and unconstitutionally forcing on the nation radical social experiments — including same-sex marriage
and a culture of death.

We therefore call upon the Congress of the United States to exercise its constitutional authority to stop judicial tyranny – the revision of the original
meaning of the text of the Constitution under the guise of interpretation. At a bare minimum, we believe the following is necessary to stem the rising
tide of judicial tyranny:

1) The Senate should restore its long standing tradition by no longer allowing the minority to block a vote to confirm judicial nominees.

2) Congress should withdraw jurisdiction from all federal courts to hear any challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act, state marriage acts, or state
marriage constitutional provisions defining marriage as a relationship between one man and one woman, which are claimed to be a violation of the U.

S. Constitution.
3) Congress should withdraw jurisdiction from all federal courts to hear all challenges to the acknowledgment of God as a violation of the First
Amendment Establishment clause, rightfully returning these matters to the individual states.

4) Congress must impeach and remove Supreme Court justices and judges of the lower federal courts who insist on substituting their own views for
the original meaning of the Constitution.

5) Congress must impeach and remove Supreme Court justices and judges of the lower federal courts who base a decision of Constitutional
interpretation in whole or in part on foreign law.

6) When and where appropriate, Congress should reduce or eliminate the funding of federal courts, the salaries of judges excepted, that overstep their
constitutional authority.

Constitutionally defiant judges have brought us to a national crisis. Such activist judges have abandoned their legitimate role, usurped the authority of
the other branches of government and created a tyranny far worse than that which the Founding Fathers rebelled against.

Therefore, firm measures are now required to preserve, protect, and defend our Constitution from out-of-control judges bent on forcing their will on
the American people.

We the undersigned appeal to Almighty God to be merciful to these United States of America and request His Divine assistance in restoring our
Republic once again to be “One Nation Under God” with religious liberty and justice for all.

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