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kate
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 Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 3:33 am Post subject: FreeRepublic's MARCH for JUSTICE 4/7/05, WashingtonDC |
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tune in, to see if any of the channels carry this tomorrow --
besides the rally, they will be hand delivering letters to the Senators
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1367722/posts
Free Republic's MARCH for JUSTICE II, April 7, 2005, Washington, D.C.
emphasis mine
| Quote: | Judicial tyranny must end! The filibuster must be broken! The full Senate must have an up or down vote on the president's judicial nominees! We must not allow the Democrat obstructionists the privilege of controlling the confirmation process!
No more liberal activists on the bench!
Enough is enough!!
We will be marching on Washington on April 7th to send a message to all three branches of government. We hope to have delegations from every state of the union present to meet their respective senators and hand deliver our letters, demands and petitions of grievance.
It's way past time to end the tyranny of the men and women in black robes! They are not empowered by the constitution to make law or dictate from the bench. This must end!
If you are tired of activist judges ignoring the constitution, considering "international law" in their deliberations, overruling the will of the people, walking all over the states and other branches, etc., then you should join us in DC on April 7 to run the bastards out on a rail! (figuratively speaking)
The rally will be held at Upper Senate Park from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. After the rally, attendees will form into state delegations and march on the Senate office buildings to meet with senators and their staff and to deliver letters to them.
The purpose of the rally is to call attention to the need for oversight of the judiciary at all levels of government and to urge the Senate to employ the constitutional option with regard to the filibuster of judicial nominees.
The speaker lineup, as of this afternoon, in tentative order of appearance:
Ken Connor, Chairman, Center for a Just Society
The Honorable Tom Parker, Justice, Alabama Supreme Court
Gary Marx, Executive Director, Judicial Confirmation Network
Dr. Gary Cass, Center for Reclaiming America
Manuel Miranda, National Coalition to End Judicial Filibusters
Jeff Ballabon, Center for Jewish Values
William Green, Founder and President, RightMarch.com
John Armor, Esq.
George Landrith, President, Frontiers of Freedom
Kay Daly, President, Coalition for a Fair Judiciary
Niger Innis, National Spokesman, Congress of Racial Equality
Roy Innis, National Chairman and CEO, Congress of Racial Equality
Rep. Steve King (Iowa) |
go freepers!
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kate
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| Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 5:40 am Post subject: |
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March for Justice II After Action Report and Photo Thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1380444/posts
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After the rally, Niger Innis led a delegation to three senators' offices to lobby in support of the constitutional option. The offices were those of Sen. Warner, Sen. McCain and Sen. Allen.
FReepers also visited their home state senators' offices. At least one was able to speak to a senator in person as they walked down a hallway.
An unintended bonus for us was that the liberals were so scared about our little gathering they sent a group of counter-protesters over to march and chant on the perimeter of the rally. The counter-protesters outnumbered us by a few dozen, but we weren't bothered. We were standing up for the Constitution while they were supporting rule by judicial fiat.
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kate
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| Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 6:01 am Post subject: |
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"Congressman Billybob's" Speech at March for Justice II
Brilliant Speech by John Armor at the March for Justice
transcript here…
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1379536/posts
Long read, couple snips~~ emphasis mine
| Quote: | What we see today is a fundamental failure of the American theory of government, led by five Justices who are violating their oaths of office. How do we know that? Let’s look at the source materials.
Hear now the words of the Gospel according to John, James and Alexander. Jay, Madison and Hamilton in the Federalist, Chapter 78, wrote this about the federal courts:
“The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment....”
This was the only time in the Federalist that the authors capitalized whole words. That emphasized their meaning. Federal judges were given great freedom -- lifetime tenure and guaranteed salaries -- to decide the cases before them. But they were expected to obey and enforce the law given to them, including the Constitution.
What is the danger, when Justices take into their own hands not just the enforcement of the law, but the rewriting of the laws they are appointed to enforce?
It is the job of state legislatures and Congress to pass the laws. They are given this authority over us, because we elect them for this purpose. We have the power to defeat them for reelection if we are not content with the laws they pass.
I state this in simplest terms. Because we do not have the power of the ballot box over federal judges and Justices, they cannot possess any LEGITIMATE power to legislate over us. |
| Quote: | The entire theory of constitutional law rests on this: as the Constitution itself says, it is the “supreme Law.” Either it is superior to all other laws, and to all office-holders, or, like most of the world’s constitutions, it is mere decoration. No one is exempt from obedience to the Constitution, especially the Justices of the Supreme Court.
Are there Justices on the Court who see and oppose this danger? Here now these words from the Gospel according to Tony. Justice Scalia wrote this in his stinging dissent from the five-Justice majority in Roper v. Simmons:
“What a mockery today’s opinion makes of Hamilton’s expectation, announcing the Court’s conclusion that the meaning of our Constitution has changed over the past 15 years – not, mind you, that this Court’s decision 15 years ago was wrong, but that the Constitution has changed. The Court reaches this implausible result by purporting to advert, not to the original meaning of the Eighth Amendment, but to “the evolving standards of decency” ... of our national society. It then finds, on the flimsiest of grounds, that a national consensus which could not be perceived in our people’s laws barely 15 years ago now solidly exists. Worse still, the Court says in so many words that what our people’s laws say about the issue does not, in the last analysis, matter.... The Court thus proclaims itself sole arbiter of our Nation’s moral standards – and in the course of discharging that awesome responsibility purports to take guidance from the views of foreign courts and legislatures.”
In short, what we have here is not “evolving standards of decency,” but devolving standards of judicial dishonesty. Five Justices of the Court deliberately trampled on the Constitution, and deliberately violated their oaths of office. They did so by violating the plain language of that document, and the plain descriptions of the proper roles of federal judges, as laid out by the Framers
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| kate wrote: | ...“The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment....” This was the only time in the Federalist that the authors capitalized whole words. That emphasized their meaning.
....The Court reaches this implausible result by purporting to advert, not to the original meaning of the Eighth Amendment, but to “the evolving standards of decency” ... of our national society. .... The Court thus proclaims itself sole arbiter of our Nation’s moral standards – and in the course of discharging that awesome responsibility purports to take guidance from the views of foreign courts and legislatures.” |
It is perplexing to me that there can even be an argument about this -- the Court is out of line. Many thanks to the freepers for their activism on this issue.
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