Time: Sun May 11 12:44:19 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA28597; Sun, 11 May 1997 10:47:29 -0700 (MST) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA17345; Sun, 11 May 1997 10:47:24 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 12:43:52 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: Go! Rep. Bob Barr, Go! (fwd) Paul Mitchell adds: Rep. Barr, Go FASTER!! /s/ Paul Mitchell http://www.supremelaw.com <snip> > >Rep. Bob Barr: "Judges Who Usurp Legislative Powers Violate Oath -- > Should be Impeached" > >Impeachement: A Political Remedy to a Political Problem -- Rep. Bob Barr (R-GA) > > (House of Representatives - May 07, 1997) > >((Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia asked and was given permission to >address the House for 1 minute.) > >(Mr. BARR of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, in reviewing what we can do >with regard to activist Federal judges who usurp the authorities of the >legislative or executive branches, I was impressed by an article written >on March 20 in the Washington Times by Paul Craig Roberts who >said, there is no clearer, sounder, and firmer grounds for impeachment >of judges than the violation of the constitutional oath, and there is no >clearer, sounder, or firmer evidence that this oath has been violated >than when judges violate the separation of powers and usurp the >political functions of government. This has been understood by >everyone since the day the Constitution was written. > >(As one professor noted, in the constitutional design of the Founding >Fathers, especially Alexander Hamilton's discussion of the Federal >judiciary in the Federalist Papers, the ultimate recourse in the event >the judiciary usurps legislative powers is impeachment by Congress. This >has been thoroughly understood in every period of our history. > >(Writing in the Harvard Law Review in 1913, Wrisley Brown, whose >investigation led to the impeachment of Judge Robert W. Archibald, >said impeachment is a political remedy to a political problem. It is >directed against a political offense, it culminates in a political >judgment, it imposes a political forfeiture, it is a political remedy for >the suppression of a political evil with wholly political consequences. > >--------- End forwarded message ---------- Confer at "Rights/Constitutional Rights/Political rights" in Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition. /s/ Paul Mitchell http://www.supremelaw.com ======================================================================== Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S. : Counselor at Law, federal witness email: [address in tool bar] : Eudora Pro 3.0.1 on Intel 586 CPU web site: http://www.supremelaw.com : library & law school registration ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this ========================================================================
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