Use impeachment power.Regarding the article "How to Protect Marriage" (August 9 issue), I've changed my mind about the limitation of the jurisdiction of the federal courts. If this procedure were to become common, Congress could attach a provision to any bill making it off limits for the federal judiciary. That would be fine for limiting attacks on marriage, leaving abortion to the states, and numerous other issues. What happens, though, when Patriot Act Patriot Act: see USA PATRIOT Act. III or some other extreme assault on the Bill of Rights is so protected? The federal judiciary is severely flawed, but we still need it to limit the depredations of the other two branches of government. I think the limitation of jurisdiction is treating symptoms rather than the cause. Treating the cause requires use of the impeachment impeachment, formal accusation issued by a legislature against a public official charged with crime or other serious misconduct. In a looser sense the term is sometimes applied also to the trial by the legislature that may follow. power. We need to remove many of the federal judges that are now in office. Violating the oath of office An oath of office is an oath or affirmation a person takes before undertaking the duties of an office, usually a position in government or within a religious body, although such oaths are sometimes required of officers of other organizations. by deliberate misinterpretation of the Constitution needs to be regarded as an impeachable im·peach·a·ble adj. 1. Capable of being impeached: venal, impeachable public servants. 2. Being such as to warrant impeachment: an impeachable offense. offense. DAVE A file sharing program from Thursby Software Systems, Inc., Arlington, TX (www.thursby.com) that allows a Macintosh to share files with a PC. Designed specifically for and needing installation only on the Mac, DAVE works with Microsoft's native SMB/CIFS file sharing protocols and uses NEUENDORF Aurora, Indiana |
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