In defense of "judicial tyranny"
04/20/05
One might expect conservatives, for many of whom Roosevelt remains a bête noire, to be chary of borrowing pages from his playbook, as with the Constitutional Restoration Act, which seeks to strip courts of the jurisdiction to review government's 'acknowledgement of God.' Any judge who exceeded her jurisdiction under the law -- say, by considering almost any plea for relief under the Establishment Clause -- would be subject to impeachment. To make sense of this strange appropriation of FDR, it's really necessary to watch the proceedings at the 'War on Faith' conference held earlier this month and absorb the sheer quantity of bile spewed on the black robes...
http://www.reason.com/links/links042005.shtml
from Reason, by Julian Sanchez
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
One might expect conservatives, for many of whom Roosevelt remains a bête noire, to be chary of borrowing pages from his playbook, as with the Constitutional Restoration Act, which seeks to strip courts of the jurisdiction to review government's 'acknowledgement of God.' Any judge who exceeded her jurisdiction under the law -- say, by considering almost any plea for relief under the Establishment Clause -- would be subject to impeachment. To make sense of this strange appropriation of FDR, it's really necessary to watch the proceedings at the 'War on Faith' conference held earlier this month and absorb the sheer quantity of bile spewed on the black robes...
http://www.reason.com/links/links042005.shtml
from Reason, by Julian Sanchez
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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