The nation’s largest public policy women’s organization thinks voters need to keep in mind that the man who wins Tuesday’s election will be able to shape the Supreme Court for decades to come.
While the economy is likely the primary concern of voters in the 2012 campaign, Concerned Women for America (CWA) makes note of another long-term issue that cannot be ignored: the Supreme Court.
President Obama has already been able to appoint two left-leaning justices — Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — during his first term. And Dr. Janice Crouse, senior fellow CWA’s Beverly LaHaye Institute, points out that four justices are over age 70.
Read More at onenewsnow.com . By Chad Groening.
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Are we a government of the people or a judicial oligarchy? I favor voting for elected officials who will have the courage to reign in the judiciary when usurping powers not given to them by the Constitution. It is the congress who makes the laws, the president who enforces the laws and the judiciary who advises the other two branches as to whether laws are constitutional or not. I do not believe that our constitutional framers ever intended judicial rulings to have the force of law. For instance, when the supreme court ruled in Dredd Scott that black slaves were chattel property and not persons, did that stop Abraham Lincoln from creating the Emancipation Proclamation or congress from ratifying the 13th and 14th amendments? I don’ recall anyone reversing Dredd Scott in order to end slavery. So too, we do not need to overturn Roe v Wade to outlaw abortion but a congress with the political integrity and will to outlaw abortion already made illegal by the Declaration and the Constitution and a president with the backbone to enforce the Constitution as required by their oath of office.