[Congressman Billybob]

This is not a new subject, for me or for FreeRepublic. However, as long as there are politicians, journalists, and even judges who do not understand what the job of a judge is, we will have to pound away at this subject.

John / Billybob

[writer33]

Good one, CB. Keep working for the sake of conservatism and a return to the principles of the U.S. Constitution.

[Travis McGee]

All Hail King Court! Just let the judges rule.

[DryFly]

Ahh, but the good news is that California’s judges, even those on the Supreme Court, do face re-election races, as Rose Bird learned so well. Perhaps another recall drive is in order.

[Joe 6-pack]

I'm guessing you're already familiar with the works, but Mark Levin's "Men In Black," and Robert Bork's "Slouching Towards Gomorrah," provide ample documentation of the systematic abuses of the American judiciary and how it has exceeded it's Constitutional mandate to assume a role in the shaping of the culture.

Highly recommended reading for those that haven't yet picked them up.

[Bernard Marx]

Excellent post, John. Thanks to the sophist bilge our government schools have peddled to students for several generations, these basic facts sadly need re-stating. Our country has really lost its way.

[Fundamentally Fair]

This is just the natural progression of other court ordered "solutions" to "problems." Take the bussing examples...

We'll written piece, John.

[Paul Ross]

In California, such a petition will go on its ballot this fall, to write the subject into the California Constitution and put it beyond the reach of its Supreme Court.

What do they need to do to succeed there?

Can we help?

[TigersEye]

Regime change in the courts. Impeach activist judges!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

the subject really is so simple that a young child can understand it. It only becomes complicated when sophists get a hold of it, whether they are lawyers who disrespect the Constitution and the will of the people, or worse, lawyers in black robes who sit on the bench and disrespect the Constitution and the people.

sophist

1542, earlier sophister (c.1380), from L. sophista, sophistes, from Gk. sophistes, from sophizesthai "to become wise or learned," from sophos "wise, clever," of unknown origin. Gk. sophistes came to mean "one who gives intellectual instruction for pay," and, contrasted with "philosopher," it became a term of contempt. Ancient sophists were famous for their clever, specious arguments.

philosopher

O.E. philosophe, from L. philosophus, from Gk. philosophos "philosopher," lit. "lover of wisdom," from philos "loving" + sophos "wise, a sage."

"Pythagoras was the first who called himself philosophos, instead of sophos, 'wise man,' since this latter term was suggestive of immodesty." [Klein]

Modern form with -r appears c.1325, from an Anglo-Fr. or O.Fr. variant of philosophe, with an agent-noun ending. . . .

[Lurking Libertarian]

Was the California Supreme Court wrong in 1948 when it struck down the law banning interracial marriage?