9th Circuit At It Again

[righturnonred]

Here we go again with the US 9th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals. The liberal wacko judges of the 9th have once again overturned the decision of a lower court, this time to demand that enemy combatant, foreign nationals, being held at Guantanamo have access to the US court system. WHAT!?

This kind of behavior from the 9th is not completely unexpected however, as this appellate court itself is the single most overturned in US history.

Other recently overturned outragous decisions you might be familiar with:

-Ruling unconstitutional any references to [God] in the Pledge of Allegiance.

-Voting to postpone the California recall election at the last minute.

-Overturning the death sentance of a convicted mass murderer because the prosecutor made biblical references during his closing statement.

Long considered the federal court breeding ground for judicial activism, the 9th Circuit has been the federal appeals court most often overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in recent years.

The 9th Circuit accounted for both 30 percent of the cases (24 of 80) and 30 percent of the reversals (18 of 59) the Supreme Court decided by full written opinions this term.

In addition, the 9th Circuit was responsible for more than a third (35%, or 8 of 23) of the High Court’s unanimous reversals that were issued by published opinions.

On the whole, the 9th Circuit’s rulings accounted for more reversals this past term than all the state courts across the country combined and represented nearly half of the overturned judgments (45%) of the federal appellate courts.

This is yet another example of radical liberals who occupy positions of power in this country.

These judges should be impeached.

[Craig Read]

You got it right mate. Extra legal processes are the Libs only and favorite weapon of choice. They find it rather painful to go through democratic and accountable processes - such bother all that. Better to avoid that hassle and get old fat people to comment on liberal activities and justify post modern rhetoric. This is why the Dumbos fight so hard on court appointments and try to filibuster conservative appointments.

This is a weakness in the US system - how to rectify it?

[righturnonred]

This is a weakness in the US system - how to rectify it?

It's a very complex task to limit the power of federal, or even state and municipal judges without rewriting constitutional guidelines.

The US federal appellete system does, in essence, have some measure of checks and balances - essentially, the 9th is effectively neutered by higher courts but this does create problematic gridlock in the judical system.

Some states in the union have also passed mandatory minimum sentencing requirements for exactly these types of miscarages of justice that take place in the criminal courts. These laws prevent bleeding heart liberal judges from allowing rapists and murders to go free because of their misplaced sense of compassion.

We also have here, in some state, a "three strikes" law which mandates a life sentence to criminals who are convicted of a third fellony within a statute of limitations. Such referendums have resulted in dramatic reductions in crime, however you see these liberal crazy people left and right writhing head over toe in attempts to repeal these laws because they limit their ability to legistate from the bench.

As for further solutions, maybe under specific circumstances, such is the case with the 9th Circuit, a sitting president should be allowed to reappoint judges to certain benches where there has been an obvious abuse of power as described in legistation i would entitle the "judicial accountability act". Has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? The use of such a presidential power would be allowed only under circumstances mandated in the legistation which clearly defines abuse of power.

For the sake of argument, let's define "abuse of power" as, oh say, any court or judge who, just for starters:

accounted for both 30 percent of the cases (24 of 80) and 30 percent of the reversals (18 of 59) the Supreme Court decided by full written opinions this term.

If you're a judge trying to pull this kind of crap, you deserve to lose your bench, pure and simple.

[Debo]

What has happened to our court system down here really is not so much court related as political.

The liberals have found that they can circumvent the Constitution by "illegaly" passing laws that are then pushed untill accepted and intergraded into American life.

I believe they to be using this path to simply do away with the Constitution.

It simply stands in thier way and if they pass enough of these laws they will eventually be able to declare the use of the Constitution unconstitutional.