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To: cyncooper

Delay: "We set up the courts. We can unset the courts. We have the power of the purse."


A Constitutional power Congress does not exercise.


12 posted on 04/13/2005 8:39:29 PM PDT by demlosers
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To: demlosers

Chief Justice John Marshall, wrote during impeachment proceedings against Justice Samuel Chase for his arbitrary use of judicial power that "a Judge giving a legal opinion contrary to the opinion of the legislature is liable to impeachment."


181 posted on 04/13/2005 10:31:08 PM PDT by daybreakcoming ("Courage is being scared to death -- and saddling up anyway." - John Wayne)
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