Come on Annie, we need ya.
Posted on 04/08/2005 5:02:25 PM PDT by firebrand
The argument over what's to be done to break up the filibuster barricade in the Senate continues to heat up, with rallies and counter-charges.
Two groups were working in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to try to end the Democratic filibusters which have blocked several of the president's top judicial picks from even receiving up-or-down Senate votes.
The Coalition for a Fair Judiciary (CFJ) took to Capitol Hill to lobby for an end to filibusters, while the Judeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration convened a conference to call for an end to what they see as a judicial assault on faith.
The constitutional restoration conference started with the Pledge of Allegiance and a rousing prayer by one of the council's leaders, Rabbi Yehuda Levin.
The group is calling for five action items—including impeachment of activist judges and limiting the scope of the courts, according to spokesman Rick Scarborough.
"We think the time has come for actions among the conservative Christians and people of like mind philosophically across the country," Scarborough said. "We're going to present them a vehicle to act, to withdraw all jurisdiction from the federal courts regarding the voluntary acknowledgement of God—to put that back in the hands of the states as the First Amendment originally intended."
Elsewhere in D.C., CFJ lobbyists flooded the Hill to ask GOP leaders to implement the "constitutional option" to break the Senate impasse—a restoration of chamber tradition to return the number of votes needed to confirm a judicial nominee to 51.
"Republicans have 55 members of the Senate," said Connie Hair, a spokeswoman for CFJ. "It shouldn't be a problem ending this filibuster."
Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker, who spoke at the event, said liberal law schools — like the one he attended—are to blame for a runaway judiciary.
"We never once studied the Constitution itself," Parker said, "only what judges said about it. So from the very inception of legal education there's a focus on the judge rather than the document."
Parker said students learn through case studies that the law evolves to what current culture wants it to say.
Hair, meanwhile, expects the last of the judicial nominees that are currently being held up to be out of committee by the end of April.
Too bad it doesn't mention Free Republic, but it's all in the same cause.
The problem is, I saw the press conference in front of the Supreme Court that the Dem congresscritters did on Wed or Thurs, on the news, Fox, I think---
I didn't see one story on the March for Justice or the other conference that was on c-span on the news, therefore, no one else did, because I was looking for it---heck, I sent in money to use for it!!!
What doesn't get put on TV by the MSM will not make it into red state America's psyches--
Hey you! Was great to see you again. Arrived home late this afternoon. We trekked over to the Tidal Basin this morning for cherry blossom photo op. Nice beds of tulips there too.
How about appointing judges during recess of the Senate? Clinton did it, and others have done it also.
It is time for Republicans to grow some co-hone-eeees. I have lost all respect for the party and those that are in the highest levels of it.
Parker said he wasn't even tasked to study the Constitution in LAW SCHOOL--there is a big part of the problem.
I think the Declaration and the Constitution should not only be taught in high school, but should be a course by themselves, not included in an "optional" class of civics or something--
As long as people grow up ignorant of the way our country is supposed to run (like I did), judicial activisim, politics like we have now, with obstructionism and confusion about whether a "constiutional option" is even Needed in order to confirm judical nominees, and it should be taught that there is absolutely NO PLACE IN THE CONSTITUTION THAT SAYS "SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE".
So good to see you again too. Boy you are tireless! I got home after midnight---three Metro trains, one van ride, one train ride, and one subway ride. I'd do it all again, though, for half the fun.
That does not mean religious views can't expressed in public. They can, even in taxpayer-funded situations, obviously. Perhaps worship-like activities--like prayer, the singing of hymns and carols, etc.--can be in public but not in taxpayer-funded situations.
Also obviously: the promoting of points of view that spring from religious beliefs has nothing to do with religion itself. Thus, comments by the likes of Hillary that anti-abortionists are foisting their religious beliefs on others are wrong. People who are anti-abortion are promoting and campaigning for their beliefs, which may or may not spring from religion.
You mentioned rules and guidelines because of all of the lawsuits---that is my point. There shouldn't BE lawsuits.
Just because my granddaughter would stand up in front of an audience in her kindergarten public school, and sang Christmas carols, it does not force any person in that school or audience believe in God or anything....
When I was growing up we sang Christmas carols in school, we had Halloween parties, with witches and vampires, and I grew up just fine thank you very much---
I will tell you one thing though---NO ONE has stopped KWANZAA celebrations. Kailey came home last year in pre-K and had some kind of hat and artwork and I asked what they were for, and she said Kwanzaa. They were not allowed to have a Christmas party that year---but they did have studies for Martin Luther King day and Black History Month.
Now don't flame me as a racist---I don't mind that they learn about them. Just don't cut out the things that I learned about.
You do know that in California schools there are schools that require Islam studies and require the students to dress in muslim clothes...
It is problems like the above that I think need to be taught in the course that I originally posted about--the Declaration and Constitution class....but of course before we could have a class we would need teachers and if the teachers don't know the Constitution or are willing to overlook it to promote their own agendas, then we are in REAL trouble.
Yes, you are right, but maybe if he is leaned on enough he can do this.
Two things Congressman Steve King of Iowa pointed out yesterday: (1) There has never been a judicial filibuster before, from either side. Thus those who are saying Republicans have done the same thing are wrong. (2) Right next to the section about judicial appointments, and the advise-and-consent role of the Senate, are other sections that specify a 60-vote majority; so, obviously, unless the founders were entering the short-term-memory phases of their lives, they did not intend a 60-vote majority for advise and consent.
I'm sure you grew up just fine. We took a lot of things for granted when I was a kid too. I think we are trying to find a better and purer sense of justice now, in a more diverse country, always with the hope that when we Christians are fair with others, they will respect us more in return and someday come to the faith "on their own," more or less.
When you bring up unequal enforcement, you are spot on. That is a total outrage.
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According to a gentlemen with the last name of Shwartz - Chief of staff for Tom Coburn - he says using international law for adjudicating cases in American courts is considered a HIGH CRIME - and requires impeachment.
Does anybody know where we can get info on what the restrictions are upon judges. It's got to be listed somewhere.
Thanks for the witty comment, reminds me of the fervor with which the Republican party is advancing the conservatives agenda.
The real problem is that Bill Frist is an invertebrate.
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Don't forget... he a medical doctor following the "Hipocritic" oath . . .
"DO NO HARM to the DemocRATS" !!! ;-))
There is a very simple solution. Stop funding the "public" schools. Starve the beast.
I have been running that I idea through my mind for awhile.
If we make schools a capitalistic venture, don't you think the teachers and parents might get a little more involved?
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