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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
Congress has power of the purse strings. Ask congress to suspend Federal judges' wages until Moore is vindicated.

Congress has already addressed this, so I've heard, and they're siding with Judge Moore. Now, the issue goes to the senate.
The federal court called the judges action unconstitutional, so the state judges followed. Judge Moores constitutional rights have been violated because the federal courts had no jurisdiction in the case.
Any funding to remove the monument, and the collection of any fines, have been put on hold by congress? I still can't find this on the net yet.
Now, we wait to see what happens. The First Amendment reference was intended to protect the churches from interference by the state, not to protect a secular state from religion. It is about freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. The modern extreme separationist notion was fabricated out of thin air by the liberal-dominated Supreme Court that unconstitutionally struck down school prayer in 1962.

508 posted on 08/22/2003 7:08:53 PM PDT by concerned about politics (ns)
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To: concerned about politics
Congress has already addressed this,

The Hostetler Amendment defunding the enforcement branch of the judiciary.

511 posted on 08/22/2003 7:14:37 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: concerned about politics
When the Supreme Court made a decision with which President Andrew Jackson disagreed, Jackson remarked "[Chief Justice] John Marshall has made his decision, let him enforce it now." That's the approach that needs to be taken with this issue. The executive branch, mainly the Justice Department, needs to ignore the federal judge's ruling to remove the monument, and Alabama needs to laugh off any attempt to make the state pay any fines.
513 posted on 08/22/2003 7:17:17 PM PDT by gsrinok
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