Constitution Training For Feds

[mlk_man]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/19/AR2005071901473.html

[grandma]

When our own, forever safe for the rest of their lives, judges are just simply Not Interested in OUR Constitution - how can the masses be expected to know what their rights are?? As long as certain congressmen continue pushing for these judges, we will become more & more less USA & more subvervient to the European attitudes & way of life. There was not a link for this - it came today from Tony Perkins at Washington Research Counsel:

Foreign Objects

Today the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution is having hearings on the recent trend of American judges citing foreign precedent in their decisions. Today's hearing, held by Chairman Steve Chabot (R-OH), will explore the impact of citations to foreign authorities for the interpretation of American law. The American judicial system is (ideally) composed of judges who interpret the intent of Congress and determine whether legislation fits within the confines of the U.S. Constitution. To those unfamiliar with the Constitution (as some justices appear to be) it is the contract by which the American people agree to be governed. The Founders, in the Declaration of Independence, accused King George of combining "with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution."

Today, American justices are doing exactly that- carefully choosing the foreign decision that best supports a liberal agenda. In Lawrence v. Texas, the decision striking down a Texas law prohibiting same-sex sodomy, Justice Kennedy cited a decision by the European Court of Human Rights allowing homosexual conduct as evidence of a lack of world consensus on such conduct. In Atkins v. Virginia and Grutter v. Bollinger (cases involving the death penalty and racial preferences, respectively) the prevailing Supreme Court opinions cited foreign documents to which the United States has no connection. The American people deserve a court that listens to American law, enacted by their elected representatives. Anything else is, to quote Clare Boothe Luce, "globaloney

[mlk_man]

Here here!