“It envisions a Supreme Court standing (or rather enthroned) at the apex of government, empowered to decide all constitutional questions, always and everywhere ‘primary’ in its role.”
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Supreme Court Joins Suppression of Free Speech
Pro-lifers’ display of abortion results outside a Denver church led to a First Amendment legal battle.
Judiciary up for grabs in presidential election
[T]his year’s election is a two-fer: as goes the presidency, so goes the federal judiciary — including, most likely, control of the Supreme Court. – Daily Caller
Judicial Activists Undermine the Democratic Process
Judicial activism is a very efficient way to advance a social agenda. It is precisely for this reason that its effects are so pernicious. In the Supreme Court, for example, one needs only to secure five out of nine votes to make new law. On some appellate panels, one need only secure two out of three votes in order to prevail.
Troubling Trend in the Courts
Americans should be concerned about the increasingly powerful judicial branch. With politicized appointments and repeated judicial failures to adhere to the Constitution as it is written, the public must demand action from the political branches.
Tyrannical 9th Circuit Rules Prop 8 Unconstitutional
The people of California first voted to preserve marriage between one man and one woman when it adopted Proposition 22 in 2000. The California Supreme Court overturned this initiative in 2008 and declared a new right to same-sex marriage. The voters quickly responded with the successful passage of Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment. The Ninth Circuit ruled in opposition to the People of California.
Newt and the Judges
The left wants America to believe that federal courts protect our rights because through federal courts, the left can cram its radical agenda down our throats. If we do not tame the federal bench, no conservative revolution can ever succeed.- American Thinker
Newt – only candidate calling for end to dictatorial judges
“The whole attitude of the judiciary is out of sync. They’re not dictators, they don’t define the the constitution, they are one of three co-equal branches and we were promised in the federalist papers that they would actually be the weakest.”
Newt – only candidate calling for end to dictatorial judges
“The whole attitude of the judiciary is out of sync. They’re not dictators, they don’t define the the constitution, they are one of three co-equal branches and we were promised in the federalist papers that they would actually be the weakest.”
Gingrich speech at Values Voter Summit
Let me be clear. Judicial supremacy is factually wrong, it is morally wrong, and it is an affront to the American system of self-government. (Cheers, applause.) One of the major reasons that I am running for president of the United States is the 9th Circuit Court decision in 2002 that one nation under God, in the Pledge of Allegiance, was unconstitutional.