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A new U.S. Constitutional Amendment is needed requiring that ALL court findings be confined to, or restricted to, the U.S. Constitution and English Common Law, PERIOD! (Case Law and "penumbras" be DAMNED). Judges who violate this new Amendment would readily be charged, indicted, tried, and ajudicated by the legislative body of jurisdiction. A finding of guilty would carry permanent disbarment from further judicial service.

THE CASE FOR CURBING "JUDGE-ASLATORS"

A few weeks ago I was watching a program on C-Span pertaining to the impact of foreign court opinions upon the U.S. justice system. The primary participants in the discussion were Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer, and the event took place at the American University Law School in Washington D.C. rtsp://video.c-span.org/archive/sc/sc011305_scalia.rm The debate revolved around questions asked by a moderator named Professor Norman Dorsen, and the first multi-part question asked was, "When we talk about the use of foreign court decisions in U.S. Constitutional cases, what body of foreign law are we talking about? Are we limiting...