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To: Mouton; Lazamataz; CodeToad
Congress can control the SCOTUS, if it has the will. The bolded part at the end is perhaps the least appreciated sentence in the entire Constitution.

U.S. Constitution, Article 3 Section 2:

The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;--to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;--to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;--to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;--to Controversies between two or more States;-- between a State and Citizens of another State,--between Citizens of different States,--between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.

In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.

"...with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make."

Tea Party Patriots could lead a new Congress, and put the SCOTUS back into its box. The USA was never intended to become a tyranny of five judges. It's in the Constitution: The Congress is superior to the SCOTUS. There are NOT "three co-equal branches" as most believe.

12 posted on 07/04/2012 6:14:09 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

There ARE three co-equal branches since the Judiciary is not the USSC. The judiciary includes juries, We the People, in that we do NOT have to find someone guilty of a violation of law set by the Legislature and the Executive. Jury nullification is EXATLY what the founders had in mind so that no matter the laws placed upon the people, the people still had the out to say they would not enforce them.

The Congress has never placed regulations on the USSC. I am not sure any regulation wouldn’t be corrupted as much as the court is now.


17 posted on 07/04/2012 7:19:05 AM PDT by CodeToad (Homosexuals are homophobes. They insist on being called 'gay' instead.)
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To: Travis McGee

I do believe both parties can ask for redetermination within 25 days. We need to do that.


18 posted on 07/04/2012 7:21:39 AM PDT by CodeToad (Homosexuals are homophobes. They insist on being called 'gay' instead.)
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To: Travis McGee

“. Robert Yates argued: “The supreme court then have a right, independent of the legislature, to give a construction to the constitution and every part of it, and there is no power provided in this system to correct their construction or do it away. If, therefore, the legislature pass any laws, inconsistent with the sense the judges put upon the constitution, they will declare it void.”[”

They knew it then.


21 posted on 07/04/2012 7:41:27 AM PDT by CodeToad (Homosexuals are homophobes. They insist on being called 'gay' instead.)
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To: Travis McGee

You are onto something here, though. The Congess created the power of the courts and the office of the AG, they can take it away.


22 posted on 07/04/2012 7:44:32 AM PDT by CodeToad (Homosexuals are homophobes. They insist on being called 'gay' instead.)
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