Courts Don't Have the Right to Tell Legislatures What Laws to Make

Originally published at http://www.onlinebyram.com on Nov. 1, 2006.

The New Jersey Supreme Court, just a few days ago, ordered their state's legislature to redefine marriage. And correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Massachusetts do the same thing not too long ago?

In this country, we have three branches of government, and the judicial branch is supposed to be the least powerful. The judiciary does not have the right to tell the legislative branch what laws to make. It's about time we rein in the "imperial" judiciary - again. When I say again, I mean that we've done it in the past.

In our history as a nation of people under God, we have impeached judges for things such as being drunk in public. Our forebears were right in their actions back then. And we need to realize that the usurpation of one branch of our government over another is far more serious even than public drunkeness. Passing new laws and amending the Constitution in attempts to control our out-of-control judges is definitely not the way we should go. The Founders of this great country provided in the Constitution itself the way in which we should go. Impeachment. There is no reason why our U.S. Representatives, who we elected, shouldn't impeach many of the judges currently in our federal courts, and there is also no reason why our U.S. Senators shouldn't convict them and remove them from office. And the same holds true for our state officials.

I suspect that many or most of them are being blackmailed, bribed, or threatened - or rewarded for their inaction and pretense. Well, we knew they weren't without sin when we elected them. If some of them would just confess and forsake their sins and turn to doing what's right, they just might find that the American people would forgive them.