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docwebster(This is the same prole who railed against the evils of Spongebob Squarepants, you understand)
DOBSON: Well, it will have two consequences. One, is I think that it will open the door to the killing of those who are inconvenient for one reason or another. All a person has to do is find a judge who is willing to believe them when they say, well, my incapacitated or mentally handicapped relative wanted to die. And so it has great implications there.
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BLITZER: But Dr. Dobson, let me interrupt for a moment. If the legislative or the executive branch, for that -- for that issue, would like to change the law, they can go ahead and write new laws and get them passed. In fact, they can have constitutional amendments if they want to do that as well. There are options for the executive and legislative branches of the government to overrule, in effect, decisions made by the Supreme Court.
DOBSON: Yes, and they will use it. Let me quote to you -- I won't quote it, but tell you where it is.
The Constitution, Article III, Section I, says that the Congress shall have the right to set up and provide jurisdiction for all the courts below the Supreme Court. They can cancel them at will. They can change them. They can -- they could take away the franchise, if you will, for, say, the 9th Circuit out in California and re-establish it the next day.
They've got all kinds of power in dealing with the courts. But they haven't had the political gumption to deal with it. As a result, the courts are just telling us how -- what kind of people we are.
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I'll tell you what kind of person you are, Dobson. You are the lowest form of life on the face of this Earth.
DOBSON: Well, it will have two consequences. One, is I think that it will open the door to the killing of those who are inconvenient for one reason or another. All a person has to do is find a judge who is willing to believe them when they say, well, my incapacitated or mentally handicapped relative wanted to die. And so it has great implications there.
(snip)
BLITZER: But Dr. Dobson, let me interrupt for a moment. If the legislative or the executive branch, for that -- for that issue, would like to change the law, they can go ahead and write new laws and get them passed. In fact, they can have constitutional amendments if they want to do that as well. There are options for the executive and legislative branches of the government to overrule, in effect, decisions made by the Supreme Court.
DOBSON: Yes, and they will use it. Let me quote to you -- I won't quote it, but tell you where it is.
The Constitution, Article III, Section I, says that the Congress shall have the right to set up and provide jurisdiction for all the courts below the Supreme Court. They can cancel them at will. They can change them. They can -- they could take away the franchise, if you will, for, say, the 9th Circuit out in California and re-establish it the next day.
They've got all kinds of power in dealing with the courts. But they haven't had the political gumption to deal with it. As a result, the courts are just telling us how -- what kind of people we are.
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I'll tell you what kind of person you are, Dobson. You are the lowest form of life on the face of this Earth.
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Uh, no.
Date: 2005-03-31 09:24 pm (UTC)Section. 1.
"The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office."
nothing in there about Congress having the power to override a court, or to dismiss it entirely.
Re: Uh, no.
Date: 2005-04-01 12:21 am (UTC)"In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make."
(emphasis mine)
The Congress may in fact limit the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.
Re: Uh, no.
Date: 2005-04-01 12:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-31 10:31 pm (UTC)I would like to point out that I find the attention Dobson gets in newspapers and news web sites to be very, well, inconvenient.
Just sayin'.
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Date: 2005-03-31 10:35 pm (UTC)Burning Man is coming up ... anyone up for making him a *literal* burning man? :-X