High Court To Weigh Climate Change Case

by H. Josef Hebert - November 26th, 2006 - AccessNorthGA.com

The Supreme Court hears arguments this week in a case that could determine whether the Bush administration must change course in how it deals with the threat of global warming.

A dozen states as well as environmental groups and large cities are trying to convince the court that the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate, as a matter of public health, the amount of carbon dioxide that comes from vehicles.

Now that all cases of abortion and homsexuality are governed by the Supreme Court due to their finding "rights" written in the Constitution in really really small print that only the Justices of the Supreme Court have ever been able to see, they now seem prepared to find that global warming was predicted in the Constitution and there is a really really small print "right" to spend tax payer money regulating anyone who is producing anything that lawyers think contribute to global warming.

The court does not seem to think that anyone would consider them buffoons for finding the right to sodomy in the Constitution's fine print. Finding a "right" to kill an unborn child was certainly not a major contributor to contempt for these nine clowns. So why would a "finding" that clear specific "rights" about global warming was in the Constitution's fine print surprise anyone?

The "rule of law" has ceased to exist in America. Today the only thing we have is the "rule of judges" and they have nothing but contempt for anyone who did not attend law school.

Democracy And Same-Sex Marriage

by Jeff Jacoby - November 16th, 2006 - Townhall.com

Matt Foreman, the executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, was celebrating Arizona’s defeat of a proposed constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

"It is always wrong to put basic rights up for a popular vote," he said, "and it is nearly impossible for any minority to protect itself when that happens. But today in Arizona the impossible happened."

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"Civil rights should never be determined by a majority of voters," it declared. "Ballot questions are blunt instruments, lacking the delicacy of legislation."

It is hard to say which is sadder: the contempt for ordinary Americans that such comments reflect, or the ignorance of American history underlying them.

It is however refelctive of the underlying attitude that has replaced the "rule of law" with the "rule of judges". The Democratic Party has become the most undemocratic institution and force in America today. It is one reason that politics has become so confrontational.

It is also one reason that our courts have become so corrupt. When defense of society gets replaced with defense of the trial lawyers right to make millions from suing anyone who is "unpopular" and making them pay for being "unpopular", corruption is the end result.

Today our courts reflect the "rule of judges". This must end.

However it is difficult to believe that it will end until we can get more people to accept the reality that our courts are corrupt.

Here are some additional quotes from the article that more people need to be aware of:

The 14th Amendment -- approved by Congress and ratified by three-fourths of the states in 1868 -- had guaranteed equality and due process to blacks and whites alike. The Civil Rights Act of 1875 had barred discrimination in public accommodations. But the Supreme Court had gutted those protections -- for example in 1896, when it authorized streetcar segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson. It wasn't democracy that failed black Americans during the long decades of Jim Crow. It was a judiciary unwilling to protect the equality that the democratic process had guaranteed.

This is not the popular view of our court system. Blacks in America will not accept that a larger percentage of Repubicans supported the 1964 Civil Rights bill than Democrats. Blacks in America will not accept that they have won more of their rights from well intentioned and moral whites voting democratically than they have won from the courts.

This is a serious problem. It is difficult to fix problems when people do not understand truth. My frustration is that Republicans are as likely as Democrats to insist we have a good court system. Nothing in its history defends this. We have one of the most corrupt court systems in the world, and we need to make sure more people understand this.