Supreme Court appointments


I’m doing a detour for tonight’s post.

I’ve been receiving e-mails from various organizations to help to fight against the nomination of Elena Kagan to the United States Supreme Court. One such example was from Americans United for Life. A portion of its e-mail received on June 28, 2010 reads as follows: “Meanwhile, as I write you, Elena Kagan is moving perilously close to confirmation in the Senate. We cannot risk another pro-abortion justice with a lifetime appointment—not during the greatest expansion of abortion in America since Roe v. Wade.”

This is the second opportunity that Barrack Hussein Obama has had to make such a nomination. It may not be the last. Both Justices who resigned are Justices who believed in and worked for the expanding powers of the courts through judicial activism.

Before the 2008 Presidential election, I said that the three most important issues were:

1) the MURDER of unborn babies

And, since his election, the President has increased the opportunities to MURDER more and more unborn babies.

2) expansion of the homosexual agenda

And, since his election, the President has expanded the homosexual agenda on several fronts.

3) appoint of members to the federal court system and specifically appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court.

And, since his election, the President has nominated judicially active judges and Justices.

In all three issues, President Barack Hussein Obama has done exactly what he has said he would do. We should have stopped his election in 2008. We did not.

The truth is that any attempt to stop his nominations, at this time, to the Supreme Court will prove to be futile. Currently, the President has a sufficient number of Democrats in the Senate to approve a judicially active Justice. If not Elena Kagan, it will be someone else cut in the same mold as other judicial activist Justices. That’s why the two sitting Justices retired at this time and that is why the Democrats are pushing to vote on the nomination as soon as possible.

We should be directing our energies and our RESOURCES to electing as many conservative members, as possible, to the United States Senate to be able to block such appointments in January of next year and beyond. Don’t fight battles that are not winnable. Change the battle ground to get conservatives who support judicial restraint elected to the U.S. Senate.

One last item which has been erroneously repeated by both conservatives and libertines that needs to be clarified. Appointments of judges and Justices to the federal court system ARE NOT lifetime appointments. The United States Constitution does not say anything about lifetime appointments anywhere in the Constitution.

Article III, Section 1 of the United States Constitution states the following: “The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.”

In short, it is NOT a lifetime appointment. It is an appointment based upon good behavior. Any member of the federal court system may be removed from office. We, the people, must get out of this mindset that judicial appointments are lifetime appointments. THEY ARE NOT!