Remedy for Judicial Abuse: Impeach 'Em!
What can we do about out-of-control judges who trample on our religious liberties and try to re-engineer our culture?
Robert Knight, who heads Concerned Women for America's Culture and Family Institute, answers these questions in his new column, "The sound of silence in Indiana" (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48313). Knight addresses a recent ruling by a federal judge in Indiana that barred the state legislature from opening its sessions with a prayer in the name of Jesus Christ--something which the Indiana legislature had been doing, without harming anyone, for 188 years. The lawsuit, of course, was brought by the ACLU.
"The real problem is spineless elected officials who know better but refuse to assert their authority and rein in our robed masters," Knight wrote. In Indiana, the spineless ones in question are the legislators. Instead of acquiescing to the judge, he said, the legislature should have done two things: 1) gone ahead and prayed the prayers, and 2) asked their congressional representatives to impeach the federal judge.
It's not always legislators who fail to curb the courts. In Massachusetts, when the state supreme court "legalized" homosexual "marriage" (without any laws being passed), the legislature did not change the law, but the governor, Mitt Romney, went ahead and ordered the clerks to issue same-sex "marriage" licenses. In this case, it was the governor who went spineless. Nor has the legislature availed itself of the "Bill of Address" provided by the state constitution as a means of keeping the judges in line.
"Getting good judges... on the bench is a very important part of the solution," Knight wrote. "Removing bad ones is the other part. An impeachment or two would send a message to overly ambitious judges and even to some tyrants in the governors' mansions."
It's time the people's elected representatives showed some backbone and removed judges who set aside the Constitution.
Robert Knight, who heads Concerned Women for America's Culture and Family Institute, answers these questions in his new column, "The sound of silence in Indiana" (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48313). Knight addresses a recent ruling by a federal judge in Indiana that barred the state legislature from opening its sessions with a prayer in the name of Jesus Christ--something which the Indiana legislature had been doing, without harming anyone, for 188 years. The lawsuit, of course, was brought by the ACLU.
"The real problem is spineless elected officials who know better but refuse to assert their authority and rein in our robed masters," Knight wrote. In Indiana, the spineless ones in question are the legislators. Instead of acquiescing to the judge, he said, the legislature should have done two things: 1) gone ahead and prayed the prayers, and 2) asked their congressional representatives to impeach the federal judge.
It's not always legislators who fail to curb the courts. In Massachusetts, when the state supreme court "legalized" homosexual "marriage" (without any laws being passed), the legislature did not change the law, but the governor, Mitt Romney, went ahead and ordered the clerks to issue same-sex "marriage" licenses. In this case, it was the governor who went spineless. Nor has the legislature availed itself of the "Bill of Address" provided by the state constitution as a means of keeping the judges in line.
"Getting good judges... on the bench is a very important part of the solution," Knight wrote. "Removing bad ones is the other part. An impeachment or two would send a message to overly ambitious judges and even to some tyrants in the governors' mansions."
It's time the people's elected representatives showed some backbone and removed judges who set aside the Constitution.
