This alarming piece is from the American Constitution Society blog.
Conservatives Call For Impeachment Of "Satanic" Justice Anthony Kennedy
The Washington Post reports on the harsh words some conservatives have for Reagan appointee and Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy:
Conservative leaders meeting in Washington yesterday for a discussion of "Remedies to Judicial Tyranny" decided that Kennedy, a Ronald Reagan appointee, should be impeached, or worse.
Phyllis Schlafly, doyenne of American conservatism, said Kennedy's opinion forbidding capital punishment for juveniles "is a good ground of impeachment." To cheers and applause from those gathered at a downtown Marriott for a conference on "Confronting the Judicial War on Faith," Schlafly said that Kennedy had not met the "good behavior" requirement for office and that "Congress ought to talk about impeachment."
Next, Michael P. Farris, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association, said Kennedy "should be the poster boy for impeachment" for citing international norms in his opinions. "If our congressmen and senators do not have the courage to impeach and remove from office Justice Kennedy, they ought to be impeached as well."
Not to be outdone, lawyer-author Edwin Vieira told the gathering that Kennedy should be impeached because his philosophy, evidenced in his opinion striking down an anti-sodomy statute, "upholds Marxist, Leninist, satanic principles drawn from foreign law."
Ominously, Vieira continued by saying his "bottom line" for dealing with the Supreme Court comes from Joseph Stalin. "He had a slogan, and it worked very well for him, whenever he ran into difficulty: 'no man, no problem,' " Vieira said.
The full Stalin quote, for those who don't recognize it, is "Death solves all problems: no man, no problem."
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Christ! Where do these people crawl out from?????????????
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Kennedy ought to be impeached, along with at least Ginsburg and Breyer. Not for their decisions, or philosophy, necessarily, but for violating the tenth amendment when they use international law to make the Constitution cover things that it really doesn't. If the justices honestly and rationally thought that the Constitution would allow them to rule as they did in Roper, there would be no need to cite international law. That they did cite international precedents tells me that their Constitutional authority was lacking since the tenth amendment clearly states "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." If they are using international law or opinion to make the Constitution fit where it doesn't, they are trying to circumvent the tenth amendment. This cannot be allowed. You just can't ignore a part of the Constitution that you don't like. We need to start holding people in government accountable for tyrannical behavior. For the record, I also believe that President Bush has violated the Constitution for not faithfully executing the laws passed by Congress, as he is required to do. That the democrats seem to lack the backbone to call him on it suggest to me that, despite their heated rhetoric, they're all really on the same side.
I have already written two posts on this topic:
United States Supreme Court Bases Opinion on International Law, Violates Tenth Amendment
US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Approves Use of Foreign Precedents in Court Decisions
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