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To: goldstategop
This is the most cogent argument I've ever seen for abolishing judicial review.

I agree that judicial review must go. It was a power grab that the Congress failed to counter at its inception, and it's detrimentally changed this country.

Having said that judicial review alone doesn't account for judicial activism. Nor will changing the make up of the court's judges have a lasting effect on judicial activism. The heart of the problem is the human beings who sit in black robes, and who are able to make law from the bench without accountability to anyone.

We have seen past Republican Presidents appoint either "conservative" or "moderate" judges to the bench only to have those same judges become our worst judicial nightmares later in their careers. That must change before any activism is halted.

Term limits would give any judge only so much time to be a detriment to society. It would bypass our do-nothing Congress, and do away with the unused impeachment process. At the same time it would give judges that "independence" they say they need, but which has only proven to be a judicial skirt to hide behind when making bad law.

Barring term limits what else can check and balance the courts?

9 posted on 06/04/2005 6:34:27 AM PDT by Noachian (To Control the Judiciary The People Must First Control The Senate)
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To: Noachian
"Barring term limits what else can check and balance the courts?"

N, The Constitution CALLS for impeachment. Peace and love, George.

13 posted on 06/04/2005 6:42:20 AM PDT by George Frm Br00klyn Park (FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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