Right now, many federal cases are impressively petty as well as being redundant.
My own personal bugaboos are the utterly inane “public school cases” that are brought before hundreds of federal benches every year. Off the top of my head these involve just a handful of issues: school dress codes, what student newspapers publish, student clubs, prayer, and school discipline. For some perverse reason these titillate federal judges so much that they insist there are federal issues involved, and “It is a good way to teach children.”
No. Spending $100k of taxpayer money to argue “the constitutional issues” of how many inches student dresses can be above the knee is not a “good way to teach children” for anything but unconscionable waste of money.
With its extremely restricted docket, the SCOTUS has *twice* agreed to hear arguments in the infamous and ridiculous “Bong Hits For Jesus” case, though I believe the high school student involved in the incident is now in his 30’s.
And conversely, America has denied justice to vicious murderers who a jury of their peers had sentenced to death on the “whimsy” of federal judges who openly say they “don’t like” the death penalty, so they are not going to let it be enforced. Their endless pursuit of minutiae they can use as an excuse is just pathetic.
Federal judges now regularly *order* state legislatures to appropriate moneys they do not want to, and if they refuse, these judges appoint “special masters”, that effective rule that part of the state until it meets the judges satisfaction that they are obedient to his will.
In our current system of government, there are no effective constraints on the federal judiciary. Congress could decide to prohibit them from hearing certain cases, but the list of prohibitions would run into the thousands.
Yet another good reason to restore some authority to the states in a body that will restrain a runaway federal government.
I couldn’t agree more, the 3rd branch of the Federal government has descended into tyranny. The only way to effectively check this branch is to do as Jackson did. Ignore them.
This will of course require nullifying their modern tools to enforce their will. Our States will have to find both a will and a way to ignore or if necessary arrest theses “special masters” they appoint. We must be first to pronounce that the courts edicts are nearly lawless and unjustified under any plainly written Constitution of Civil Government we the people ever agreed to.
That in presidence to our oath to uphold the Constitution we are required to ignore & interpose against their usurpation less the court be allowed to overthrow the constitution of theses united States.
We must establish a president by which this is done, by oath taking public officials, rationalize and defend it. Like any lawless bully the Federal court must be stood up to, they are NOT the dictators of the Constitution, if they were there would be no constitution only their discretion.
Furthermore ignoring jury trials is strictly and specifically FORBIDDEN in the Federal Constitution by the 7th amendment and yet somehow the Federal court has found many ways to in practice “retry” their verdicts. A reversal of our Constitutional protections has somehow been effected over the last 200 years..
The matter of how to restore is indeed a daunting one, particularly as we must do so while dodging the tyrannical dictates of this unyielding monster. A cultural reeducation of the whole population is obliviously in order as it will be necessary to arm the whole of the population in resistant to this unchained monster.
To slay a beast with a greater control of the field then yourself you must always exploit that beasts weaknesses and nature as to effectively trick it into being where it is most vulnerable.