To: OREALLY
"Can he reverse the Supreme's ruling ?"
But congress can place the law out of the Supreme courts jurisdiction...
Anticipating a challenge:
Article III, section 2, paragraph 2
"...the court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make."
13 posted on
07/02/2003 12:34:12 PM PDT by
RRWCC
(Even under a good king, a subject is still a subject.)
To: RRWCC
The Supreme Court has been acting as an umelected legislature for the past thtiry years. There is saying among jurists which is along the following lines (I forgot the Latin version of this): "The good Jurist always works to expand his Jurisdiction.".
If the Supreme Court insists on acting as de facto legislature then they need to be shown that political results always provoke political reations. Removing Church-State issues and issue surrounding the regaulation of sexual mores would be a great start in restoring the Court to its Constitutionally mandated role.
24 posted on
07/02/2003 1:13:03 PM PDT by
ggekko
To: RRWCC
Article III, section 2, paragraph 2
"...the court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make."I didn't know that. Live and learn! Could Congress take the initiative on a matter like homosexual marriage, and exclude cases on that subject from the federal courts? If the court really thinks a question of constitutional rights is involved, could it overturn the Congress's exclusion of the matter from its jurisdiction?
25 posted on
07/02/2003 1:20:33 PM PDT by
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