I came across this article [via Curmudgeonly & Skeptical] right after I posted my previous article [see below] regarding Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's campaigning for new law changes pertaining to crime and punishment. Curious coincidence?
Richard Lessner writes in the Washington Times:
One of the greatest contemporary threats to the survival of republican government arises from the courts. Increasingly, judges are behaving like black-robed autocrats, not simply ruling upon the law, but making law.
To support this contention, Mr. Lessner provides several examples of outrageous lawmaking by judges, including:
Although voters in Nevada twice in the 1990s passed an amendment to the state constitution calling for a two-thirds supermajority of the legislature to pass any tax increase, the Silver State's supreme court ordered legislators to pass a $1 billion tax increase by a simple majority. This ruling effectively disenfranchised the voters of Nevada, stood the constitution on its head, and made a mockery of popular self-government.
Richard Lessner's piece should be read by every voter. The American judicial system should not be making laws.
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