Posted on 04/30/2018 1:16:56 AM PDT by Jacquerie
Do Bing or Google search on “Federal Court Blocks President Trump . . . ,“ and you’ll find one lower federal court after another blocked the Trump administration from rescinding Obama’s illegal DACA, delaying the start of an EPA rule, cracking down on sanctuary cities, banning trannies from our military, and keeping dangerous jihadis out of the US.
If America had a congress as institutionally proud as our Framers intended, federal district courts wouldn’t stop President Trump at nearly every turn. Our system wasn’t designed for a complacent and neutered legislature that stands by and watches judicial usurpations and tyranny.1 On the contrary, the legislative power is the very essence of representative government and is in fact, superior in this sense to the other branches. When diminished, the executive (rule of one) or the judiciary (rule of the few) are sure to step in and fill the vacuum.
After eight years of Obama’s rule-by-decree, the corruption of our post-17th Amendment congress is just about complete. Where congress takes idealistic, energetic, ambitious young men and women and quickly turns them into whores for reelection, the judiciary turns old lawyers into virgins. And as if our judicial virgins were modern Oracles of Delphi, congress silently accepts their judicial ravings.
In his lead to a recent column at Towhall.com, Robert Knight wrote, “Federal judges sit on the bench for life and can either uphold the law or rule like tyrants.” He’s right. It is by interpreting statutes, federal/state constitutions, and executive orders that courts may fairly be said to rule America. Congress and the media want you to think that nothing can be done short of impeachment and removal.
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It is too bad that most of Congress cares only about their own perks and power. Congressional oversight of lower federal courts could be great for our country.
Hail to the Chief should be played when these judges take the bench.
I’ve long felt that, while Federal judges are appointed for life, there is no reason they can’t be suspended or furloughed with changes to legislation.
Congress should pass a law that suspends a judge when his ruling is overturned by the SCOTUS. First time, 90 days; second time, 180 days. Third time, permanent removal from the bench and relegated to divorce court or traffic court. That will prevent them from going rogue.
Something must be done. Independent doesn’t mean unaccountable.
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