Posted by
Jay Noble on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 12:42:38 PM
Justice Stephen Breyer, in an interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News, remarked that the U.S. Supreme Court must promote the political rights of the members of minority groups and look beyond the Constitution’s text when necessary to ensure that "no one gets too powerful."
Who does this pompous windbag think he is? The justices of the United States Supreme Court swear an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States, not to serve as advocates to promote the political rights of any group. They have no authority, WHATSOEVER, to "look beyond" the text of the Constitution in making their decisions, unless the case itself does not involve a provision of the Constitution. In those case the plain language of statute or the common law which reflects the traditions and values of our people is the guide. The justices of the Supreme Court are not some sort of knights whose mission is to slay contemporary dragons.
And did it ever occur to the distinguished justice that if any one institution in American government can be said, beyond a reasonable doubt, to have become too powerful, that institution is the United States Supreme Court, which has been engaged in a continuous campaign of usurping power over the last 50 years. Case after case the Court has injected itself into issues which are none of its business and made decisions without support in the text or history of our Constitution and laws. This is an illegitimate, rouge court, whose members routinely subvert the delicate balance of powers between the three branches of the Federal government as well as between the national and state governments, and conjure up "rights" out of whole cloth when it suits them. The time for the president and Congress to reign in this bunch has long past, and their failure to do so is an abdication of responsibility.
Justice Breyer obviously believes that the members of the Court are like Olympians, vested with the power to adjust society to reflect the morals and opinions of these god-like beings. In fact, he voices the views of a tyrant, who believes himself unbound by the Constitution and laws he is sworn to enforce. In this he is emblematic of the liberal jurists who dominate the Federal judiciary.
Such a man has no business being a judge on any court of the land, and certainly not the highest. When, oh when, will the people get enough of these judicial tyrants and rise up and demand they be put in their place?