Election Impact on the Supreme Court

Thomas Jefferson was the first statesman to worry about the potential in the hands of the supreme court when he said to Abigail Adams: "Nothing in the Constitution has given them a right to decide for the Executive. The opinion which (lets) judges decide what laws are constitutional …..would make the Judiciary a despotic branch."

Consider this list:

2001 - Its wrong to display the 10 commandments in a public building.

1963 - No form of prayer, not even silent ones must be allowed at a school function.

1857 - Black people were not "persons", not citizens of America... they were "slaves" that could be sold or killed by their owners.

1973 - Unborn children are not "persons" and they can be killed by their mothers up to the ninth month of pregnancy.

1999 - Boards of Education cannot pray before their meetings.

These are the gifts to us from our Supreme Court. The good news though is that the grievous list is a short one.

What would Jefferson say about this? He might repeat what he wrote to John Eppes: "The original error [was in] establishing a judiciary independent of the nation, and which, from the citadel of the law, can turn its guns on those they were meant to defend, and control and fashion their proceedings to its own will."

Your vote this year might help save us from an increasingly liberal and bombastic Supreme Court. "One single object [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation." (Jefferson to Edward Livingston)

Remember electing an inept president is a 4-year mistake, but empowering a secular humanist to the Supreme Court could cost us 20 years of poor decisions.

The word from the Bible to you today is:

"To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifices."

One of the great responsibilities of living here in the USA is that ordinary people like us get to vote our conscience on great moral issues.

The Bible’s requirement for those who swing the gavel is that they judge fairly, do not pervert justice, refrain from bribes and refuse partiality. That does not mean that America must have courts that favor Christianity. Indeed the cosmopolitan nature of our society refutes such a notion.

We don’t want any group to impose ethics on another except by representation in Congress.

What we also don’t want is law handed to us from the religion of secular humanism - and it is a faith all on its own - by judges. With stealth and decorum our courts have begun to overstep the boundaries of legal interpretation. They are turning court cases into wide-ranging laws.

Ours is a republic. We want major laws to be tested at the Hill in Washington. If, for example, the majority of American citizens favor prayer in school - so be it.

Judges, mind your place!

So far, it seems to me, the Supreme Court is counting on the laid-back nature of the American people. Some of their legal decisions in hotheaded countries would have caused the population to rise up and fling them out of office. Our constitution has placed them there for life.

That’s why it’s so important to elect a president that will propose conservative candidates in the next 4 years. Its not as though far seeing American statesmen haven’t seen the danger.

Use your next vote to guard against Abraham Lincoln’s caution:

"..The candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government, upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties, in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal." (First inaugural address)