More ideas on ending the oligarchy
Posted on October 18, 2005
Below, Jay posted a quote from Thomas Jefferson and posed a question about term-limits for judges. Respectfully, I have to say that I don’t necessarily think that term limits would solve the problems of a malfunctioning judiciary, but I do like the idea of having a debate about the idea.
I have some other ideas about how candidates for elected office should approach the courts in the next elections. Click here to see what I mean.
If you do, you will find one perspective on things that elected leaders and candidates can embrace as goals. Here is a summary:
1. Remove financial incentives to attack the Constitution (this goes hand-in-hand with our legendary petition found here.
2. Codify Judicial Review. This idea is the most complicated of the four points, but I am fascinated by the notion of actually setting rules for judicial review. Click here only if you are a card-carrying legal egghead.
3. Reform guardianship law. Yes, this is a response to the judicial failures in the Terri Schindler-Schiavo case (and similar ones as well. Sun Hudson comes to mind, for one). I’m still passionate about the issue. In criminal law, the courts are held to a very high evidentiary and legal standard when imposing a sentence of death. Civil law needs to tighten up a bit on one judge’s ability to decide that someone will die when the matter is disputed.
4. Display courage against rogue judges. Judges simply don’t get impeached. It hardly ever happens. I’m not calling for mass impeachments, only for the courage to try when the facts warrant it.
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I think they are all great ideas, and I especially wish Congress would grow some, there are quite a few judges that need to be impeached. I think any judge that legislates from the bench should go to the wayside.
If every judge was a pill-popping ultraconservative like Rehnquist, a hypersexed lemming like Thomas or a vacuous Bible-smacker like Scalia, I highly doubt Jay would be calling for judicial term limits. He just wants to weed out the odious liberals.
Face it, folks. You’re no different than anyone else in America in having an agenda and inventing facts to suit. The fact that Jay rails against taxpayer funding of the ACLU (which has fought for Christian causes numerous times) while blithely ignoring religious groups’ using taxpayer funds to spread lies about STDs and contraception says it all.