Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
FEDERAL JUDICIARY'S FIAT POWER
http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2015/02/17/obama-immigration-ruling-texas-court-josh-earnest-andrew-hanen/23539693/?csp=eMail_DailyBriefing_53313673
FEDERAL JUDICIARY'S 1857 "DRED SCOTT" CASE ABOUT BLACK SLAVES PROMPTED THE CIVIL WAR. ITS 1881 "CIVIL RIGHTS CASES" DECISION OVERTURNED THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1875, ENDING CONGRESSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION. ITS 1896 "PLESSY V. FERGUSON" CASE ENDORSED SEGREGATION AND JIM CROW. ITS JUDGES HAVE LIFE TENURE AND DETERMINE THEIR OWN JURISDICTION'S PRESENCE OR ABSENCE BY FIAT. SUCH PERSONS "HAVE A FORM OF GODLINESS BUT DENY THE POWER THEREOF." NOTHING BUT A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT--OR REVOLT--CAN REIN THEIR POWER IN, WHICH IS MODELED ON PLATO'S "REPUBLIC'S" PHILOSOPHER-KINGS PREMISES AND FOUNDATION, RUDELY, CRUDELY.