Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Rule by the Elite

Premise: The systematic dismantling of the mechanism of the United States justice system. Example 1: The firing of United States District Attorneys. Example 2: The appointment of a Supreme Court Justice with no experience sitting on the Supreme Court bench. Example 3: The bullying of past and current Supreme Court Justices to make political rather than just decisions. Why were district attorneys fired? Plausible answer: They are the ones responsible for trying the government and private businesses for wrong doing. John Roberts currently is the youngest Supreme Court Justice. He is the third youngest to serve as the Chief Supreme Court Justice. Isn’t unusual that the Chief was not promoted from within the sitting body of the Supreme Court? His nomination by the president as one of the president’s privileges is questioned by Mr. Roberts himself. Quote. “Now, the Court has the obligation and has been recognized to assess the constitutionality of acts of Congress, and when those acts are challenged, it is the obligation of the Court to say what the law is. The determination of when deference to legislative policy judgments goes too far and becomes abdication of the judicial responsibility, and when scrutiny of those judgments goes too far on the part of the judges and becomes what I think is properly called judicial activism, that is certainly the central dilemma of having an unelected undemocratic judiciary in a democratic republic." If the Supreme Court is the ultimate judiciary body in the United States, are they immune to the same intense lobbying lawmakers receive?