Supreme Court usurps its authority again, part 10

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Based upon past historical data: 3,287+ UNBORN BABY MURDERS have occurred in the last 24 hours in the United States. See my post “BABY HOLOCAUST” posted January 22, 2008.

I’ve been involved in a problem one of my clients has with Farmers Insurance Group. My previous posts in relation to this problem were:

September 10, 2007 post: “Beware of Farmers Insurance Group”
September 11, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group’s response”
September 18, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company received the requested list”
September 19, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company’s response to the list”
October 16, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and my request for information”
November 27, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group does not respond to my request”
January 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group latest stall”
January 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group is sent a response”
January 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group pays some money”
January 19, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group continues to be obstinate”
January 26, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group receives another request”
February 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group shows how low they will go?”
February 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group: If I were going to respond to the final letter”
February 13, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and associated companies”
February 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and how others rate the company”

I will not be continuing my Creationism posts today. I do plan to return to them soon.

Then, I plan to answer the response about Iraq. I am sorry for the change in plans. Plans, in reality, often are altered for one reason or another. “The best laid plans … often go astray.” Thank you for your understanding and patience.

How many unborn toddlers were murdered today because of the humanistic, paganish, barbaric decisions of the United States Supreme Court?

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“Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.” James 4: 17 (NIV)

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On my last post, I answered an anonymous comment from an earlier post (July 7) dealing with the Declaration of Independence. In the Peoria Journal Star on July 20, 2008, page A4 was a political column by Jonah Goldberg which supplements my comments from his perspective. Since I have been dealing with the topic of the Supreme Court usurping its authority and power, I am quoting that column tonight. It was entitled “Congress lets court walk all over its laws.” The column:

“Out of 16 major American institutions, Congress ranks dead last in the eyes of the American people, according to Gallup (Gallup Poll—my addition). Even HMOs are more revered. If Carrot Top (Who?—my addition) was elected to Congress, it would improve the legislative branch’s reputation.

The reasons for Congress’ standing are too long to list here. But some culprits never get blamed, even though they are hiding in plain sight. Chief among them: the U.S. Supreme Court.

Have you ever had a boss who treated you like a child, who second-guessed you, who reworked whatever you did so that you felt no ownership of the final product? As a result, did you take your job less seriously preciously because you knew that whatever you produced wouldn’t really be yours, anyway?

Well, the Supreme Court is the boss (As I’ve repeatedly said, NOT according to the Constitution of the United States. The Supreme Court has usurped its authority and it continually does so!—my addition), and Congress is the Dilbert. (That comic character I do know—my addition.) There was a time when the U.S. Congress took the Constitution very seriously. Even after Marbury v. Madison—the 1803 case that established the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review (the beginning date for the Supreme Court usurpation of power—my addition)—Congress and the president were still the chief guardians of the Constitution. Indeed, before the Civil War, only two acts of Congress were found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. (Reread that last sentence and then consider how many times in one Court session that the Supreme Court rules a law passed by Congress to be unconstitutional and you will get some idea of the increasing erosion of Congress’ power by an ever more power hungry Supreme Court. Its thirst for power will either be stopped or we will be an official Courtocracy [in fact if not in name] with our democracy gobbled up by an out of control Supreme Court—my addition.)

These days, the court seems to find duly enacted laws unconstitutional six days a week and twice on Sunday.

Lawmakers rarely bother their pretty little heads with the Constitution. Rather, they just load as much spit, tar, and Vaseline on a legislative fastball and try to get it over the court’s plate. If those imperial umpires (which power the Court was NEVER given by the Constitution—my addition) don’t call a constitutional strike, well then, voila—it must be constitutional.

Presidents are no better. George W. Bush, in his one act that does approach an impeachable offense, signed campaign finance ‘reform’ in 2002 even though he made clear he thought the law was unconstitutional. At the ceremony, he expressed his ‘concerns’ over the fact that the law—he signed!—‘restrains the speech of a wide variety of groups on issues of public import in the months closest to an election.’

But, have no fear, the super court is here. ‘I expect,’ he explained ‘that the courts will resolve these legitimate legal questions as appropriate under the law.’

No sale. Congressmen, senators and presidents (and court members!—my addition) alike swear to protect and defend the same Constitution as the Supremes do. In the 19th century, Congress actually debated constitutionality with passion, and if it found a proposed law falling short of that standard, it was fixed or killed—not outsourced to the Supreme Court for retrofitting (dereliction of duty by Congress today, Presidents today, and the Courts today and WE, the people, allow it. Do we really want a democracy anymore or are we more comfortable with COURTOCRACY?—my addition).

The court, by assuming that responsibility, and the other branches of government, by surrendering it, have permanently damaged the constitutional order. (As I’ve said in a previous post, Congress was originally intended to be the strongest branch of government and the courts the least powerful. The two roles have been reversed today—my addition.) Indeed, Thomas Jefferson believed that a judiciary with final jurisdiction (which the Court was NEVER given—my addition) over the constitutionality of presidential and legislative actions ‘would make the judiciary a despotic branch’ of government. (AND IT HAS!!! Isn’t it strange that the Supreme Court has adopted Jefferson’s “wall of separation between church and State” but has ignored his very real warning about judicial tyranny? —my addition)

Today, that despot has a name. It’s Anthony Kennedy. Justice Kennedy rules, thanks to his status as the court’s swing vote, as the true King of America. (It should not be because the Supreme Court has NEVER been given the power of FINAL arbitrator!!!—my addition)

For example, Congress and the president hammered out a system for treating enemy combatants held at Guantanamo Bay, at the behest of the court. (which the Court did NOT have the power to behest—my addition) But that compromise wasn’t to His Majesty’s liking, so it was invalidated anyway in Boumediene v. Bush, which gave members of al-Qaida more rights than captured Nazis in WWII.

Indeed, the whole debate in Congress has been over to what extent the Supreme Court should be running our POW system (NOT AT ALL!!!—my addition), not what our POW policy should in fact be. (The solution is both simple and constitutional. REMOVE THE COURT SYSTEM FROM THE PROCESS ENTIRELY!!!—my addition)

Recently, Justice Kennedy issued a diktat in which he quashed Louisiana’s sovereign and popular decision to execute a man for raping his 8-year-old stepdaughter in a manner so brutal the details cannot be even hinted at in this space. Why? Not because such executions violate the sensibilities of the public, or the constitutional precedents, or even what Kennedy calls ‘evolving standards’ of decency, but simply because they are at odds with the court’s own sense of lese-majeste.

Supreme Court critic Mark Levin has it right when he says that ‘every time the Supreme Court meets in secret conference, it sits as a constitutional convention, rewriting the Constitution at will.’ (That, unfortunately, is EXACTLY CORRECT. And WE have ALLOWED it to HAPPEN!!!—my addition)

Aside from a legalistic–yet-lawless despotism that makes the meaning of our Constitution hinge on how much fiber Justice Kennedy’s diet has on a particular day, the result of this pathetic state of affairs is that the first branch of government (Congress—my addition) doesn’t take itself seriously. It is merely a caucus of goodie-givers, sent to Washington to dole out trinkets to whomever it may. (Unfortunately, that seems to be exactly how a majority of the voters in this country want it. The power is there to reverse this despotic tyranny of the FIVE and we, the people, just let it continue. As I’ve said, we seem to have grown weary of the messiness of democracy and prefer the exactness of the tyranny of a COURTOCRACY!—my addition)

At least the president is still charged with life-or-death decisions from time to time. (That, of course, can change if the Court decides to step in and interfere for the “country’s good”—my addition.) But Congress doesn’t take itself seriously, so who can blame Americans for following its lead?” (WE can. It is the PEOPLE who MUST DEMAND and REQUIRE that we return to the truth. The COURTS ARE NOT THE FINAL ARBITRATORS in this democratically established nation!!! The courts are removing the power of the people and we are allowing it to occur!—my addition)

The following were my concluding comments on my last post. They are just as relevant for the conclusion of this post.

Let’s start with the following statement, “but as far as temporal law goes with in the border the United States there is no law above that made by the Constitution.” My first question. Do you know what the Constitution actually says in this area? I know that is what is taught in schools including colleges but that is not the actual wording of the Constitution itself. Article VI, ¶ 2 (This is know as the Supremacy Clause.) declares the following: “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance therefore; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States shall be the supreme Law of the land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary not withstanding.” Thus according to Article VI, ¶ 2, THREE areas of law are listed as the supreme law of the land: 1) the U.S. Constitution 2) laws passed by Congress pursuant to the Constitution and 3) Treaties entered into by the United States. Did you know this? Does the Supreme Court know this?

Speaking of the Supreme Court, let’s take another of the comments made by the anonymous writer. The comment was “then dont you think that they would have made mention to that in the Constitution.” Now here is my question: If the Supreme Court was intended to be the FINAL arbitrator for what is Constitutional and want is not Constitutional, then don’t you think that the writers of the Constitution would have put that very significant POWER INTO THE CONSTITUTION??? I do and they DID NOT!!!

I think that needs to be restated. The Founding Fathers were not dummies and the Constitution was written after much debate and disagreement. And yet, the Founding Fathers DID NOT give the Supreme Court the power to declare a law of Congress or anything else for that matter to be unconstitutional. That power simply is NOT present in the Constitution. In fact, the Supremacy Clause lists laws passed by Congress as the supreme law of the land along with the Constitution and U.S. treaties. It does NOT give the courts any power in that area what so ever and it certainly does NOT say that the Supreme Court is the supreme law of the land or the FINAL arbitrator. (See my yesterday post.)

The judicial branch led by the Supreme Court has become the most powerful branch of government because they have been allowed to have the FINAL authority in almost all facets of government from local school boards, to the States, and to the federal government contrary to the Constitution of the United States. Unfortunately, the people seem to have grown weary of the messiness of democracy and seem to prefer the totalitarian exactness of a dictatorial COURTOCRACY.

Or as the Bible so clearly states, we reap what we sow. We sow the seed of Supreme Court supremacy and infallibility, and we reap the corrupting power of MY WORD IS FINAL AND ABSOLUTE! Unfortunately for the Supreme Court and the nation, it is ONLY GOD’S WORD THAT IS FINAL and ABSOLUTE!!!

THE SUPREME COURT IS NOT THE CONSTITUTION!!! THE SUPREME COURT IS NOT THE CONSTITUTION!!! THE SUPREME COURT IS NOT THE CONSTITUTION!!!