Posted on 04/07/2020 7:57:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
At a recent pro-choice demonstration in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer astonished Washington and embarrassed his Senate colleagues by yelling “I want to tell you, Justice Kavanaugh and Justice Gorsuch, you have unleashed a whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”
Decisions yet to be issued. Their sin? They had been appointed by Donald Trump from a list of potential nominees that the Alliance for Justice’s Nan Aron has described as including “some of the most extreme conservatives on the federal bench today.” That is enough to raise progressive hackles. But it begs the question of what the label “conservative” tells us about a particular judge’s approach to his work.
On the face of it, the nature of a federal judge’s responsibilities ought to be self-evident. While it is the job of Congress to enact laws and of presidents’ to implement them, in the words of the Supreme Court’s fourth chief justice, John Marshall, in Marbury v. Madison, it is “the duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.”
Not what a bare majority of a particular court believes it ought to be, but what it is. And lest federal judges be tempted to divert from this single duty in order to protect their jobs and pay, the U.S. Constitution provides them with two unique protections. They hold life tenure and their pay may not be reduced.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Conservatives understand that the rule of law is all that stands between us and tyranny. It requires a certain amount of cerebral competence.
Which rules out certain political party affiliates.
Should say, "Only Conservative judges put politics aside when deciding a case."
And lest federal judges be tempted to divert from this single duty in order to protect their jobs and pay, the U.S. Constitution provides them with two unique protections. They hold life tenure and their pay may not be reduced.
Except for the Supreme Court, those protections may be defeated.
Lincoln and Congress abolished the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia in 1863 and replaced it. The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (now the United States District Court for the District of Columbia) was established.
The new Court filled the same function and duties as the old (since 1801) court. The significant difference was that Lincoln appointed all the judges of the new court, and the former judges were out of a job.
The Legislature can abolish and replace any Federal court except the U.S. Supreme Court.
Is this William Buckley’s brother, the one who was a Senator from New York? This is an impressive article especially from a man who just turned 97.
Indeed. The one and only former Sen. Jim Buckley. Wow. 97. Wow. Wow. Wow. Absolutely incredible. His defeat of Roger Goodell’s father for the N.Y. Senate seat was one of American conservatism’s great moments of the 20th century. Ad multos annos!
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