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To: DBrow; Congressman Billybob

"Interesting idea. If it passed, would courts throw it out?"

Billybobn correct me if I'm wrong... but I believe that only the supreme court could throw this out.

Congress has authority over all the lower courts, including the circuit courts, and this is direction to them.


43 posted on 09/11/2005 6:49:53 AM PDT by adam_az (It's the border, stupid!)
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There is zero doubt that this proposed law is constitutional. That is because it is an amendment to the 1976 Civil Rights Act in which Congress authorized the award of attorneys fees and costs.

The courts have awarded fees to the ACLU under the existing statute. And the Supreme Court has ruled that absent this statutory authority, none of the federal courts can award attorneys fees. So, what Congress itself has granted, Congress can take away. Not even Justice Ginsburg can stop this, IF CONGRESS ACTS.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "Mayor Nagin: 10,000 Counts of Manslaughter"

44 posted on 09/11/2005 9:07:21 AM PDT by Congressman Billybob (Mayor Nagin is personally responsible for 6 times the American deaths as the Iraq War.)
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