Gingrich Urges Overriding Supreme Court

I have to invoke Goodwin's Law and remind everyone that Adolf Hitler advocated the exact same policy.

I believe that while it is very tempting to invoke the premise of democracy as Mr. Gingrich does, it is entirely against the balance of government to do so. The Founding Fathers well understood that the public at large could be like a mob and went to lengths to instill checks against the tyranny of the majority into government. One of those is the Supreme Court, and they are often the last.

There are many things that the public now does not want which at one time or another were overwhelming popular ideas. Not the least of which was slavery of Africans. Of course, I understand it wasn't the Supreme Court that necessarily corrected that horrible institution. However, it was clearly what the majority of the people wanted, even though we now know it was wrong. We cannot simply say that because 51% of the country wants something that it should be done, irregardless of the checks and balances set out in Constitution. There are currently ways to override the Supreme Court and it is intentionally difficult; not to put too much power into the hands of those nine justices but rather to balance the power that the other two branches of the federal government have in place.

We must not give in to the appeal to our democratic sensibilities just to undermine the long thought-out balance of government which has served us so well. There likely is no perfect form of government, but it is clear to me that what Mr. Gingrich suggests will only serve to weaken the best system the world has ever known yet.

A conservative majority isnt good enough
now we have to be able to selectively void what we dont like depending on the make up of congress.
I am sure that would make for interesting election seasons as rulling unpopular with the base would be overturned.
ANd while they have political leanings, they dont just interept law based on "feeling" alone, they have to have a legal basis for their rulings.

It takes approval by two-thirds of Congress and three-fourths of the 50 states to adopt an amendment to the Constitution, the government's bedrock document.

....?

Bedrock document?

I know that it used to be respected as this "bedrock document" when handled and leading former and supposedly more law abiding Governments.

But during this currently Governing mess on the hill...They really think so?

How? Where? and in which way?

Bedrock document!...excuse me for laughing, but wasn't it the very supreme deciding King Dubya, aka the Chimp who clearly stated that it ain't much more worth to him and his administration then a "Gawd dayum piece of paper"

This is why our fore father's made certain that the Supreme Court Justices were appointed for life. It was their hopes that in doing so that the Justices would not be influenced by the politics that would get them re-elected, but would interpret the law as written. Bush has ignored the law repeatedly, re-written the terms of the Geneva convention to suit his warped needs and now the Republicans want to do away with "Justice" in this country by setting themselves above the highest court in the land. Gingrich and his cohorts want to take Democracy out of our vocabulary and insert monarchy in it's place. Scary stuff.