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How U.S. Supreme Court
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Thursday, March 17, 2005
By Gordon Bishop
The above headline is the sub-title of perhaps the most important book published in America this year.
The U.S. Supreme Court has taken over the powers of both Congress and the President.
How have the nine members of the Supreme Court become America's most powerful political and judicial force?
Simple. By making laws, instead of upholding the United States Constitution that gave birth to America, the greatest nation in the world over the past 7,000 years.
The U.S. Supreme Court is destroying America by destroying the U.S. Constitution, which represents "rule-of-law" in this shining Republic of the people, by the people and for the people.
People no longer matter. Politics (ideology) is the name of the game over the past 75 years, led by the Supreme Court dominated by liberals, socialists and Marxists.
It's "bye-bye America," according to author Mark Levin, head of the Landmark Legal Foundation and a contributing editor for National Review Online. Levin, also a popular radio talk host and a regular guest on TV shows, is a former advisor to President Ronald Reagan, another strict Constitutionalist.
Levin traces the beginning of the attack on the U.S. Constitution to the year 1803 when then Chief Justice John Marshall proclaimed that the Supreme Court would have the power to decide what is, or is not, Constitutional. That led to the process of "judicial review." That put the Supreme Court in charge of America's destiny - not the Congress, and not the President.
"The fact is, there is nothing in the Constitution that stands the Supreme Court this power," Levin said.
"The Constitution grants Congress the authority to establish, regulate, and set the jurisdiction for the courts," Levin, the consummate "legal beagle, explained. “Therefore, Congress has the power to deny the judiciary the ability to rule on certain issues."
Levin, in his landmark book titled "Men In Black," recommends Congress limit judges and justices to 12-year terms, rather than lifetime appointments.
"If they're going to behave like legislators and politicians, there's no reason they should serve for life, Levin said.
This brilliant Constitutionalist wants to reign in the judges and justices by allowing Congress to veto a Supreme Court decision.
"These nine individuals exercise unchecked power, they serve for life, and aren't accountable to anybody," Levin said.
One of the nation's founders and early Presidents, Thomas Jefferson, saw what was happening to the Supreme Court, which seizing "supreme power" as the judicial branch of the federal government. The author of our Declaration of Independence, Jefferson called the court’s takeover of the political system as a "despotism of an oligarchy"(a dictatorship by the elite)."Jefferson was among the most vocal critics of the Court," Levin said. It's interesting that the Democrat Party claims him as its founder - yet he would object strongly to the (Democrat) Party's love affair with judicial governance.
If the Democrat Party cannot pass federal legislation for expanding and liberalizing government, they look to the liberal Supreme Court to pass laws that Congress has rejected, according to Levin.
"Most Americans don't know that it was the Supreme Court that upheld slavery, segregation, and the internment of American citizens without any evidence." Levin reported.
A legal historian, Levin said: "I do know that this is what the Left wants, because they can't win elections, and the more powerful the Court gets the more they don't have to win elections.
As to the role of religion in America, Levin said, "There’s nothing in the Constitution that talks about separation of church and state, or a wall of separation. The real origin of the 'wall of separate' language was not Jefferson, but Justice Hugo Black, and his insertion of the language in a 1947 Supreme Court case called Everson. Justice Black was a member of the Ku Klux Klan in his early days. He was also virulently anti-Catholic. So all of these civil libertarians who claim to be defending the Constitution are essentially quote Hugo Black in 1947, a former member of the KKK."
Justice Black was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Franklin Roosevelt.
Levin wants Congress – the "people's body" - to have the final say, not six or seven lawyers on the Supreme Court.
Mark Levin should be appointed to the Supreme Court, or even better, run as Vice President on a Presidential ticket that is pro-U.S. Constitution - not a party ticket made up of Constitutional destructionists.
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