Exactly how long has it been a desire of the Radical Right to

[chicagojoe]

basically destroy one of the the three EQUAL branches of government, the Judiciary. What's their point?

[Zynx]

1. Religious Right demands it so they can impose theocratic laws

[unblock]

2. that one goes back like forever

at LEAST since roe v. wade.

[Zynx]

4. Don't forget Griswold - they hate Griswold.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

8. Right, the current problem we are facing

started with the Roe v. Wade decision. Unfortunately Reagan showed them in 1980 that they could acquire political by organizing. One does have to admit they have done a stellar job of organizing themselves, however, they have morphed into the greatest threat to individual freedoms and liberties I have seen in my lifetime.

[ClassWarrior]

3. The purpose of the judiciary is to be FAIR. Enough said.

Same deal with the press. The Radical RW can't stand a fair fight because they lose every time.

NGU.

[indepat]

5. The radical right has desired to destroy much more of America than just

one of the three equal branches of government for, how else could a corporatist theological police-state-type government be implemented?

[Lars39]

6. Since the end of WW II.

Project Paperclip. We had American Nazis, too, and they didn't just
disappear.

[On the Road]

7. Since Brown v. Board of Education

and has since been inflamed by Roe v. Wade.

[forgethell]

9. I think they think

that the judiciary has become a little like the pigs in Animal Farm, a little more equal than the others.

It's too bad the courts have become so politicized. But as I read the Constitution, Congress has the right to limit the court's jurisdiction, the President has the right to appoint judges on whatever basis he chooses, and Congress has the right and the duty to approve them, or not.

ARTICLE III, Section 2,
Clause 2: In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.



This is what happens when you lose political power. The Supreme Court follows the election returns.