American Revolution 'pointless' because judges now rule (Horowitz)

World Net Daily ^ | 19 May 2017 | Daniel Horowitz

[blueplum]

Americans have already lost their right to self-government. Every issue of importance is decided by unelected judges. And while the Republican majority and President Trump seem without power, the country is gripped in nothing less than a “foundational crisis.” That’s the charge of Daniel Horowitz, author of “Stolen Sovereignty,” who outlined the existential stakes facing the American people in an interview with Stefan Molyneux.

[snip]

“Even with this system, there is a remedy to take back jurisdiction. Article III, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, the entire jurisdiction of the courts are the subject matter. The Supreme Court, much less the lower courts, which are a creation of Congress, are subject to exceptions and regulations that Congress should make.”

Horowitz maintains Congress has the power, right now, to simply strip the courts of jurisdiction over major societal issues, including marriage, religious liberty and immigration. If the Republican majority doesn’t take this step, he warned, Congress will never be able to move on any of these issues...

[blueplum]

so...which congresscritter is going to introduce a bill first?

[Farmer Dean]

So we need another revolution then.It won’t be pretty.

[PapaBear3625]

Horowitz maintains Congress has the power, right now, to simply strip the courts of jurisdiction over major societal issues, including marriage, religious liberty and immigration. If the Republican majority doesn’t take this step, he warned, Congress will never be able to move on any of these issues...

And the reason they haven't is because Congress likes it this way. They have judges and executive branch regulators make the laws that legislators don't want to be held accountable for.

[NormsRevenge]

We now have a new ruling class. Bow to the new masters. Thugs in black robes.. And booties.

[hal ogen]

If a true “revolution” occurs, much watering of trees will likely occur. No one will be safe.

[loveliberty2]

America’s Constitutional illiteracy, the consequence of our allowing liberal/progressive ideological dominance at all levels of what is called “public education,” is a “harbinger of approaching tyranny” if “the People” do not demand a return to the essential ideas of liberty underlying that Constitution’s protections.

[Diogenesis]

Except for the US Supreme Court, all courts
arise from the Congress.

But the EXEMPT Congress, void of a testicle amongst them,
HATES the American People and their President.

[rarestia]

I think it’s important to note that American politics have never been so divisive, and it’s just a matter of a couple of big PACs disliking a new law to have it appealed to a court.

While I don’t know the long-term ramifications of such an action, I believe a law to prevent judge shopping would be ideal.

[vpintheak]

Oh, we can hang the judges too.
Not a threat, just saying. There are options.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Didn’t Mart Levine call for a convention of the states? Otherwise it’s the gutless go representatives we got going for us.

[blueunicorn6]

We are governed by people who are trained to argue.

[T Ruth]

Supporting Judge Moore for Senate would be a step in the right direction.

Judge Moore was overwhelmingly re-elected by a vote of the people of Alabama as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in November of 2012 and took office in January of 2013. In 2016, Judge Moore was suspended for upholding the sanctity of marriage as between one man and one woman. He retired to seek the office of U.S. Senate in 2017.

He was suspended from the bench for saying the truth: that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Obergefell was only binding on the parties to that lawsuit, and was not a legislative overruling of the laws of the fifty states.

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[Ray76]

Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan should have immediately been impeached, today will do.

They are criminals.

[alloysteel]

Appointments to the bench, at ALL levels of the Federal judiciary, should be placed on a 10-year term, to be renewed only after having successfully demonstrated that the law, and not political considerations, have been the guiding principle of the rulings made by the appointed judge or Justice.

Ten percent of the judges would be up for review for retention EVERY year. Start with the judges who have held appointment at any given position the longest, that ten percent would be the first reviewed, subject to dismissal. Each succeeding year, the ten percent next longest service would be subject to review, and if inadequacies are found, they, too, would be subject to dismissal. Continue until ALL members of the judiciary branch now serving have been reviewed, and any new appointeees would be subject to the ten-year term.

[Peter ODonnell]

It’s true in all western so-called free world countries, if the people ever gained full control they have lost it to their elitist masters who use the courts as their main weapon. They have co-opted the police in some cases as well, where police act as political correctness enforcers ahead of the courts, knowing that if the citizen objects or resists, the courts will finish them off.

We no longer enjoy real freedom of speech at all. If you have to think before you speak or publish, “will this start a lawsuit? will I perhaps go to jail?” then you don’t have freedom of speech even if technically you can say whatever you want and resort to a constitutional argument in court.

With courts increasingly narrowing the focus of broadly defined (no longer de facto God-given) rights and freedoms, the constitution is a crap shoot, one court might interpret it your way, another might go the way of the professional complainers.

We are a bit further down this slippery slope in Canada than you are in America. Your first amendment still has some teeth, albeit a few that have perhaps fallen out. Our “Charter of Rights and Freedoms” imposed by the Marxist Pierre Trudeau (1982) to replace our Bill of Rights (1960) is an Orwellian mirror-image document taking away most of our rights and freedoms and transferring them as powers and privileges to whoever controls the courts. And of course, that will almost always be liberals, especially in a country where the conservative opposition is center-left and the so-called centrists are voluntary communists, their left wing opposition unreconstructed Trotskyites, and the crazy Greens baying at the windows.

But hey, you can always say what you’re thinking and see what happens. You might catch a closet conservative judge or an actual jury of your real peers. If you live in the exact right part of rural Alberta.

You’re going down this road too. Don’t go any further. Do a U-turn and go back to the shade of Jefferson’s broad tree of liberty.

[NonValueAdded]

The fault of Congress. They define the lesser courts. Rein them in!!!

[WMarshal]

Hanging judges will be the first acts of s revolution.

[Maverick68]

"Well, that's one of the benefits of being a judge, Mr. Rice. I can... pretty much do whatever I want. .."

then of course...

[headstamp 2]

Congress has been blowing off responsibilities for decades. From the creation of the shadow bureaucracy, tolerance of government by EO to judges legislating from the bench at will.