I am officially freaked out.

[mandolin]

Okay, so most people know I'm pretty liberal but moderate. I've been annoyed with some things the Bush administration's been doing lately, but I haven't really been scared before.

Until I was pointed to H.R. 3920, the "Congressional Accountability for Judicial Activism Act of 2004."

The point of this bill? To allow Congress to reverse the judgments of the Supreme Court.

Yep.

Is it just me, but wouldn't this pretty much mess up the system of checks and balances in the federal government and wipe out the judiciary balance completely?

And why are they doing this? 'Cause they want to ban gay marriage.

*headdesk*

*headdesk*

*headdesk*

Tell me I'm not the only one who will cry if this doesn't die in committee.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, Congress already has the power to limit the jurisdiction of the federal courts (it's in the Constitution), and this may not be too far a step from that. I'd need to see more details on the legislation.

I'm rather conservative, and the general opinion among we weird, un-American folks ;-) is that the judiciary has arrogated far too much power over the course of the past half-century. If we applied the current treatment of Supreme Court decisions to history, we would likely have been an all-slave nation as soon as the Dred Scott decision came down.

Matthew L. Martin

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That's partly why I want to try to look up more on this... since Congress ALREADY can limit the federal courts' jurisdiction, I want to know how much more control they want.

I suppose this also bugs me because they're doing it on the crusade to ban gay marriage... and whether or not I agree with that idea (and I don't), it seems like an issue that's not worth going to these lengths for. To quote a favorite show of mine, it's like shooting off a cannon to kill a flea.