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TRUMP MUST BREAK JUDICIAL POWER
WND.com ^ | 9 Feb 17 | PATRICK J. BUCHANAN

Posted on 02/10/2017 3:54:21 AM PST by big'ol_freeper

As for Trump’s disparagement of the judges, only someone ignorant of history can view that as frightening.

Thomas Jefferson not only refused to enforce the Alien & Sedition Acts of President John Adams, his party impeached Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase, who had presided over one of the trials.

Jackson defied Chief Justice John Marshall’s prohibition against moving the Cherokees out of Georgia to west of the Mississippi, where, according to the Harvard resume of Sen. Warren, one of them bundled fruitfully with one of her ancestors, making her part Cherokee.

When Chief Justice Roger Taney declared that President Abraham Lincoln’s suspension of the writ of habeas corpus violated the Constitution, Lincoln considered sending U.S. troops to arrest the chief justice.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: buchanan; constitution; patbuchanan
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To: big'ol_freeper

The courts are stacked with leftist judges. We have to take a serious look at the tenure of the federal judiciary.
In addition, judges have to be held accountable when they stray from their duty. They should not be free to make law based upon their whims or their ideological leanings.

I have often thought that the courts should not be allowed overturn a vote of the people such as have occurred with homosexual marriages, unless there was a CLEAR deviation from the constitution.


21 posted on 02/10/2017 5:04:30 AM PST by JayElBee
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To: big'ol_freeper

If it can take several years for the court to schedule trials and operations, then why can’t it take just as long to process refugees?


22 posted on 02/10/2017 5:11:27 AM PST by BuffaloJack
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To: big'ol_freeper

Just IMPEACH the SOBs.

...........ya know, like—”YOU’RE FIRED”.


23 posted on 02/10/2017 5:12:07 AM PST by Flintlock (The ballot box STOLEN, our soapbox taken away--the BULLET BOX is left to us.)
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To: big'ol_freeper

I’m sure Trump knows if he goes against the judges the lame street media will encourage and demand the Democrats (who have no use for the Constitution) riot and turn our streets into Aleppo...

The Obama gov’t has made sure there are thousands of guns and millions of rounds of ammunition available and stored to arm those people...


24 posted on 02/10/2017 5:16:41 AM PST by Iscool
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To: big'ol_freeper

President Trump must purge any holdovers from that demonic Sunni Muslim Marxist Obama’s administration as he can,

Fire any positions that can be fired,


25 posted on 02/10/2017 5:17:27 AM PST by captmar-vell
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To: big'ol_freeper

Washington and the 9th Circuit better hope a terrorist doesn’t come in during this suspension of this ban. They own any terrorist attack on American soil.


26 posted on 02/10/2017 5:18:52 AM PST by HarleyD
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BUCHANAN: When Chief Justice Roger Taney declared that President
Abraham Lincoln’s suspension of the writ of habeas corpus
violated the Constitution, Lincoln considered sending
U.S. troops to arrest the chief justice.

There's powerful photoshops depicting Trump as George washington, a
founding father, a gladiator, a Revolutionary war general........we need a
photoshop of Trump as Abraham Lincoln. It'll drive the left to distraction.


27 posted on 02/10/2017 5:22:12 AM PST by Liz (Coulters Law: the MSM's delay in reporting a perp means the less likely it's a white Christian)
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To: big'ol_freeper

Fire them, or change the laws so that we can fire them!


28 posted on 02/10/2017 5:25:03 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: big'ol_freeper

OK, the ban is there, but POTUS could always just instruct his State Department to allow only 10 refugees a week and make the instructions classified.


29 posted on 02/10/2017 5:26:45 AM PST by BuffaloJack
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To: NTHockey

The next MUSLIM TERRORIST ATTACK will occur and blood will
be on DHIMMICRAT hands.


30 posted on 02/10/2017 5:36:06 AM PST by Twinkie (The MSM is DEAD. - John 3:16)
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To: clee1
The Courts MUST be reined in. <<
in this case yes...but the last refuge for us on the RIGHT is a strict originalist interpretation or our Constitution.....with out that... the constitution means anything that the LEFT wants it to mean and its useless..even harmful....
31 posted on 02/10/2017 5:41:44 AM PST by M-cubed
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To: big'ol_freeper

Is Obama’s recent Cuban Ban still in effect?

Shouldn’t the President reverse that today?


32 posted on 02/10/2017 5:41:57 AM PST by The Toll
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To: Yo-Yo

[What Trump needs to do is to have congress create a new federal appeals district...]

Yesterday Lou Dobbs answered a similar idea to break up the 9th with... ‘all you would doing is creating several liberal districts’. (paraphrase)


33 posted on 02/10/2017 5:44:01 AM PST by RetSignman
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To: big'ol_freeper

Importantly, while the POTUS might be the tip of the sword in this, congress is “the rest of the blade”.

That is, the constitution only mandates the Supreme Court. All subordinate federal courts are not just created by congress, but given their parameters on which to function by congress. And congress can include or *exclude* what the jurisdiction of courts will be.

This means that the House and Senate judiciary committees are in control of not just the structure of the courts, but also their behavior.

Courts live and breathe “precedent” (aka ‘stare decisis’), the previous rulings of superior and peer courts, that they use to justify their rulings. However, if congress does not approve of such precedents, they can exclude them from citation in future decisions.

The U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, also called the House Judiciary Committee has as its chairman, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA).

The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, informally the Senate Judiciary Committee, is chaired by Chuck Grassley (R-IA).

These two men have the power to rewrite the federal judiciary, as long as there is a simple majority in each house, their reforms are justified in a (hand picked by the leadership) conference committee, returned to both houses for a simple majority vote, then go off to President Trump for his signature.

It is likely that this process is *already* underway, to split the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, who are responsible for much of the legal outrages in the western US.

So why stop there? While federal judges are lifetime appointments, if their court is rearranged or restructured, while they will still get paid, they will effectively be retired, since they will no longer hear cases. Much easier than impeachment.

But the house and senate judiciary committees could also carry out massive reforms in both civil and criminal law, that could lift huge burdens off the backs of the people, and put out of business entire herds of lawyers.


34 posted on 02/10/2017 5:47:25 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Leftists aren't fascists. They are "democratic fascists", a completely different thing.)
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To: All

Completely agree.


35 posted on 02/10/2017 5:49:50 AM PST by veracious (UN = OIC = Islam ; Democrats may change USA completely, just amend USConstitution)
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To: protest1

Eliminate the 9th Court. Fire all the judges. Divide the area into the 10th & the 11th districts. Appoint all new judges for these districts.


36 posted on 02/10/2017 5:54:42 AM PST by noah (noah)
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To: big'ol_freeper
I (as a rule) skip clicking WND links, in this case I broke that rule.

Pat Buchanan is 100% SPOT ON.

37 posted on 02/10/2017 5:55:28 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: wastoute

if anyone at State complies with this Judge he will be sticking his neck out, WHICH MAY BE THE POINT OF THE EXERCISE!
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There are so many ways to play this and with Trump in command with Sessions at DOJ there are no “good options” for the unconstitutionalists ... it’s all just a decision of which nail gets hammered today...

Time to create a “special” court district encompassing one unpopulated Montana county and just assign all the jerks to it.


38 posted on 02/10/2017 5:58:12 AM PST by Neidermeyer (Bill Clinton is a 5 star general in the WAR ON WOMEN and Hillary is his Goebbels.)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Congress doesn’t have to impeach the court; they can completely get rid of the lower courts and then reconstitute them in any manner they see fit.


39 posted on 02/10/2017 6:07:13 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: kosciusko51

Perhaps, but I don’t see our congress having the stones to do something like that. They might hurt somebody’s feelings.


40 posted on 02/10/2017 6:09:24 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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