[texasbluebell]

"Since you don't know what de novo means or understand that the Congress has no power to order the courts to do anything..."

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Congress does have the authority, it was vested in them by the Constitution, according to Sen. Santorum, who over the weekend cited the following as giving Congress the power to control the judiciary:

Article. III.
Section. 1.
The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.

http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Constitution.html

[justshutupandtakeit]

Its power ends with allocating jurisdiction and establishing salaries, organization and size of courts. However it cannot tell those courts what to do or how.