Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Trent Lott is a liar: In the Washington Post article about Republican post-Schiavo blues, we read: (emp add) Even some Republicans who strongly oppose the Democrats' filibusters are worried that the Schiavo case suggests a GOP drift away from nuts-and-bolts legislation and toward the more polarizing agenda of religious conservatives. "I didn't come here to make a statement," said Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.), the former majority leader. "I came here to get results." But, as Digby pointed out recently: Via Sandrover over at Kos I read that four senators have sponsored an act that "makes it possible for the Congress to charge any judge with a crime who disagrees with the concept that all law, liberty, and government comes only from God.""The Constitution Restoration Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal judicial code to prohibit the U.S. Supreme Court and the Federal district courts from exercising jurisdiction over any matter in which relief is sought against an entity of Federal, State, or local government or an officer or agent of such government concerning that entity's, officer's, or agent's acknowledgment of God as the sovereign source of law, liberty, or government.
Prohibits a court of the United States from relying upon any law, policy, or other action of a foreign state or international organization in interpreting and applying the Constitution, other than English constitutional and common law up to the time of adoption of the U.S. Constitution.Provides that any Federal court decision relating to an issue removed from Federal jurisdiction by this Act is not binding precedent on State courts.
Provides that any Supreme Court justice or Federal court judge who exceeds the jurisdictional limitations of this Act shall be deemed to have committed an offense for which the justice or judge may be removed, and to have violated the standard of good behavior required of Article III judges by the Constitution. Co-sponsors:
Sen Brownback, Sam - 3/3/2005
Sen Burr, Richard - 3/3/2005
Sen Craig, Larry E. - 3/8/2005
Sen Lott, Trent - 3/8/2005
posted by Quiddity at 4/05/2005 01:35:00 PM
5 comments
I hear he is also a racist...
Doesn't it kinda beg the question as to who will enforce the legal actions against judges....will God himself come down?
And just which god are we supposed to honour-they did not specify. Or can we choose our own?
SCALIA agrees with Lott:
JUSTICE SCALIA: And when somebody goes by
8 that monument, I don't think they're studying each
9 one of the commandments. It's a symbol of the fact
10 that government comes -- derives its authority from
11 God. And that is, it seems to me, an appropriate
12 symbol to be on State grounds.
3 THOMAS VAN ORDEN, :
4 Petitioner :
5 v. : No. 03-1500
6 RICK PERRY, IN HIS OFFICIAL :
7 CAPACITY AS GOVERNOR OF :
8 TEXAS AND CHAIRMAN, STATE :
9 PRESERVATION BOARD, ET AL.
http://wid.ap.org/documents/scotus/050302perry.pdf
Nice bit of sophistry by lil' Tony: I don't think they're studying each
one of the commandments.
If we don't study them, then why list them? Is murder only bad because the 10-C's say so? Is child rape ok cuz it's not listed?
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