Congressional Issues 2008
GOVERNMENT
Judicial Usurpation: The Unelected Legislature

• exercise its Constitutional authority to limit judicial lawmaking
• remove judges who ignore the Constitution

The Judicial Branch Topics: Community Life Fairness Doctrine Founding Ideals Judicial Activism Judicial Reform Law & Ethics Legal Issues Samuel Alito

• The Court System and the Judicial Branch
• Judicial Philosophy
• Supreme Court

• Government
• Constitution
• Federalism Reform
• Government Power (lp-pr's)

Thomas Jefferson's warning:

The Constitution . . . is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary which they may twist and shape into any form they please.
(to Judge Spencer Roane, Sept. 6, 1819.)

Three Branches of Government:
Executive || Legislative || Judicial
The Fourth Branch

next: Campaign Finance, Corruption and the Oath of Office