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  • House votes to limit Federal court’s authority! Implications?

    09/23/2004 6:00:16 PM PDT · by Doc AZ · 11 replies · 240+ views
    self ^ | 9/23/04 | Doc AZ
    House votes to limit Federal court’s authority! (Implications?) http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/428894|top|09-23-2004::16:46|reuters.html An interesting discussion question for my Freeper friends. As I remember (I could be wrong, G*d knows I am quite often) the American Constitution states that the legislative branch has the authority to set the jurisdiction of the Court. And as I also remember, after the ratification of the Constitution, the Supreme Court (of it’s own volition) expanded it’s authority to allow it to declare whether any law is constitutional. Taken to the extreme that authority could allow the creation of an American judicial tyranny. (Or a 12 person oligarchy) But...