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To: sinkspur
"Judge Thompson never declared the Alabama Constitution unconstitutional, but the essence of his ruling was to prohibit judicial officers from obeying the very constitution they are sworn to uphold. In so doing, Judge Thompson and all who supported his order, violated the rule of law.

Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor and my fellow justices have argued that they must act to remove the monument to preserve the rule of law. But the precise opposite is true: Article VI of the Constitution makes explicitly clear that the Constitution, and the laws made pursuant to it, are "the supreme Law of the Land." Judge Thompson and the judges of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have all sworn oaths which bind them to support the Constitution as it is written--not as they would personally prefer it to be written.

By subjugating the people of Alabama to the unconstitutional edict by Judge Thompson, that public officials may not acknowledge God, the attorney general and my colleagues have made the fiat opinion of a judge supreme over the text of the Constitution. While agreeing with me that the Constitution is supreme, and that the opinion of Judge Thompson was contrary to the Constitution, the attorney general has argued that he must follow an order he himself believes to be in direct violation of the supreme law of the land."

Judge Thompson is ignoring the constitution and making law. This law undercuts what the constitution says. A very sneaky way of subverting our constitution without having to get an amendment to change it. A judge makes a ruling ignoring what the consitution says and then the law rather than what the constitution says is in effect.

58 posted on 08/24/2003 10:15:22 PM PDT by ClancyJ (It's just not safe to vote Democratic.)
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To: ClancyJ
Judge Thompson is ignoring the constitution and making law. This law undercuts what the constitution says. A very sneaky way of subverting our constitution without having to get an amendment to change it. A judge makes a ruling ignoring what the consitution says and then the law rather than what the constitution says is in effect.

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Don't say that: To Sinkspur, Judge Thompson speaks ex cathedra. LOL.

64 posted on 08/24/2003 10:20:03 PM PDT by BenR2 ((John 3:16: Still True Today.))
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