Sorry CNN, your phony polls don't work anymore.
"for 200 years, people have thought in this country that the best guarantee that minorities will not be oppressed"
Dred Scott would probably disagree...
I don't want politicians to have more control, I just want them to exercise the control that they are granted under our Constitution.
And just how does a Politician exert "Control" over a Federal Judge in the first place??
This is another meaningless piece of blue meat for CNN's viewers. The premise of the poll is meaningless, but that doesn't stop CNN from asking it anyway, and the DUmmies who watch from answering it.
Nothing to see here...move along...
There is a huge difference between... "Politicians having more control over judges" which is unpopular... and
Judges following the constitution....
or
The PEOPLE having the ability to elect/recall judges.
What kind of story was this? It looks like a phony poll.
Yea, and the public wants judges mandating gay marriage, even though they think they don't want it. ..Whatever.
THE QUESTION:
Do you think elected officials should have more control over federal judges and the decisions they make in court cases, or don't you think so?
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Another LOADED question.
Of course lected officials shouldn't have direct control of the decisions they make; they should have control over the selection of the judges and pass laws the judges should enforce!
--Despite politicians' complaints about judges having too much power, two-thirds of Americans do not believe elected officials should have more control over federal judges, according to a new CNN poll released Saturday.
Sixty-seven percent of 1,013 people surveyed by Opinion Research Corp. on behalf of CNN said federal judges -- and the decisions they make -- should not be subject to more control.--
If this poll is accurate, which I doubt, then the USA is truly and irredeemably FUBAR. Thus, I can't believe it.
Interesting that 30% already think the courts don't work.
This poll is a total LIE. Probably taken in San Francisco !!!
Actually, I find this result completely beliveable, the result of 30 years of fraudulent and dumbed-down public civics education.
They mean 67% of the rutabegas watching CNN think that - it'a a wonder that 67% of CNN watchers think at all.
I'd much rather have an unelected judge (whom I can't throw out of office) making up laws than a politician (whom I can throw our of office) making laws.
It just makes sense!
Two-thirds of America wants to be ruled by "!? I don't buy it. Rephrase the Q and this poll turns right around, no doubt about it.
Both a current and former Supreme Court justice told CNN they are not unaware of the criticism aimed at them, but they said such criticism is an integral part of life in a democracy.
And another integral part of democracy is that EVERYone is accountable. When the judges - or the general public - fail to recognize that, we've lost it.
What a load of CRAP!
Actually, I agree. The US Constitution gives the Congress total control over the organization and jurisdiction of all the federal courts, with the exception of the US Supreme Court, that has very explicit authorities according to Article III.
So I agree that Congress needs no additional power, other than "total", over the courts. Like, what is more than "total"?
I do not believe this poll.
They should be subject to the control of the Constitution instead of being tyrants that deserve hanging.
My arse...it's politics that decides who becomes a judge in the first place...especially for SCOTUS!