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David_Paul
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You know my “modest” proposal on how congress should handle the Federal courts…
It is the most important issue. All others are contingent upon it.
There were at least five bills last session seeking to limit the appellate jurisdiction of the courts. Probably more this session. But they are one shot deals. Limited in scope. Most were about religion. But even those are not getting support. Too difficult a PR job to explain the situation to those who, with a government school education, had no serious civics classes (a law professor at Rice was on C-Span a few years back and said his first year students used Cliff notes to understand the Federalist papers).
Appears best avenue for a restoration is to keep sloggin away at getting justices such as Brown, Owen and Pryor confirmed. But we do need to fight on all fronts. Keep those bills going on congress too.
Which lead back to my objections to this article. Negativism wins nothing. I had it with the “spineless Republicans” stuff back in 1998 when many appeared to think Congress had broad police powers and could just charge Clinton over Chinagate or could override the unity Democrats showed during his trial and convict him after his impeachment.