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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: herringbone_100 who wrote (107356)	12/9/2000 4:32:43 AM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 769667

I am not aware of pending retirement or illness on the USSC. However, one never knows what the future holds. I do believe that people should fear an "activist" court as there is no place in the balance of powers for such exercise. When "activist" courts are all too frequently seeing things within the constitution that do not exist, it may at times please a public interest or group. However, if judicial activism becomes more common place than it is already, the same should be feared by anyone. Liberals may appreciate judicial intervention, but don't often realize that the people acting outside their constitutional authority often upset the populace as all are not necessarily thrilled by the dictates imposed. Judicial edicts and dictates are far easier to make than law and more swiftly enforced as the same are to sit in judgment of those they are affecting. That is why it is not there job to create the law. They are to administer within the court and define it. They can not to administrate government, rule the people, enforce the laws and the find judgment on all things. If that were the case we would be discussing something far different than a representative republic or democracy. Changing the law at will can provide one with the ultimate power as in dictatorships. Dictatorships...as in judicial or administrative dictates that don't follow representative legislative concerns cause "Tea Parties".... If the law needs changing it should be sent to the legislature for review. TG PS Create a monster and it may one day turn on it's master..