Links to the Crybaby Option
Focus on the Family Action Chairman James C. Dobson describes the group’s national anti-filibuster ad campaign that is targeting 19 senators in 14 states. The ads states, "We've seen enough nonsense on the federal courts, from judges who demonstrated no mercy for Terri Schiavo, no humanity in protecting the practice of partial-birth abortion, no decency in declaring obscenity statutes unconstitutional and no respect for our own Constitution when they quote laws of foreign countries and even an unratified U.N. treaty. . . . It's time to call them on it.
The Christian Coalition of American reports that “after almost unanimous contempt by the state and federal judiciary – best exemplified in the Terri Schiavo case – for the people's branch of the American government, the United States Congress, and contempt for the executive branch, congressional leaders are vowing to address the huge imbalance between the 3 branches of government.” The Christian Coalition urges the “United States Senate to take the first step immediately to end the unconstitutional judicial filibusters being conducted by Senate obstructionists…”
Attempts to break the legs of the Courts
"The federal Constitution makes clear that the Legislature is primary, the Executive secondary, the Judiciary in third place," says Howard Phillips of the Conservative Caucus in addressing the court decisions made in the Terri Schiavo case. "Yet the Judiciary, because of the cowardice and ignorance of people in the other two branches, was able to be dominant in this matter."
(Actually, there is a thing called 'CHECKS AND BALANCES' which makes sure no branch is superior or inferior to the other branches of government)
Outright abolishing the Judiciary
Religious Right activists are looking at the possibility of impeaching federal judges as part of a backlash over the Terri Schiavo case.
Congress - The New Supreme Court?
Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn.) says the two judges who ignored legislation passed by Congress and subpoenas issued by congressional committees should be held accountable.
Rev. Louis P. Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition says that the death of Terri Schiavo will “shed new light on judicial activism and the need for Congress to act to deal with out-of-control judges who rule without proper legal authority or ignore the law.”
WorldNetDaily’s Joseph Farah writes that perhaps “Terri's death won't be in vain if we, as a people, learn from this experience and return some degree of sanity and accountability to our system of jurisprudence.” Farah urges that a “full review of the arrogant, unaccountable judicial decisions that mandated this state-sanctioned homicide is in order
criminal investigations should be opened at the county, state and, if appropriate, federal levels."
Kay Daly – president of the Coalition for a Fair Judiciary – refutes the idea that Congress has overstepped its bounds in the Terri Schiavo case. Daly claims, “…it is the Congress that may or may not create the lower courts of the federal judiciary. They pay for the buildings, confirm the judges, and pay their salaries. In addition, without a statute from Congress granting jurisdiction, the federal court quite simply has no jurisdiction whatsoever. Congress is in the driver's seat and can expand or limit the scope of their jurisdiction as they see fit.”
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=18386
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=18047
Don't you see it? The Far Right is destroying our Democratic Republic before our very eyes. If we don't do something to stop them, they will win.
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