Thursday, May 22, 2014

Get the Courts Under Control!

There appears to be only one means by which the federal courts, including the Supreme Court, can be brought back to constitutional legitimacy.  That would be a constitutional amendment making any federal or state court decision subject to begin overruled by a majority vote of each House of Congress.  The mere suggestion of such a remedy is certain to bring down cries that this would endanger our freedoms.  To the contrary, as already noted, it is the courts that are not merely endangering our freedoms but actually depriving us of them, particularly our most precious freedom, the freedom to govern ourselves democratically unless the Constitution actually says otherwise.

Robert H. Bork, Slouching Towards Gomorrah, p.117

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