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To: cpforlife.org

Hold it, hold it! Are they saying that we were fighting tooth and nail for 30+ years to restructure the Supreme Court, partially so it would overturn Roe v Wade, when all we had to do to change it was railroad a piece of legislation through Congress???? I don't believe that; something is missing here. If it had been this simple someone would have come up with the idea decades ago. It might be a nice symbolic gesture, but I can't imagine that, legally, it would actually change anything.


27 posted on 10/21/2005 8:21:39 PM PDT by marsh_of_mists
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To: marsh_of_mists
If it had been this simple someone would have come up with the idea decades ago.

Uh, actually it is that simple. That is what the Legislative Branch does make law.

That is why why for so many years some of us have been livid with the Courts and our Congress. The Congress for ducking the close hot button moral issues and the Courts for taking advantage of their weakness to increase their power by taking it from the state legislators and turning their opinions and their Judicial Branch into something our founders never meant it to be.

That is a group of nine people appointed for life, unelected, directly unanswerable to the people, who could say what is the law and what is not the law.

This they do for fifty states and two hundred million people based solely on what they think it is or ought to be.

This should have been left right where it was at, with each state and it's laws deciding.

48 posted on 10/22/2005 12:49:03 AM PDT by mississippi red-neck (You will never win the war on terrorism by fighting it in Iraq and funding it in the West Bank.)
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