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The One Reason Why All Americans Should Oppose The Nomination Of Samuel Alito: He Would Tear Down Our System Of Checks And Balances, Giving Far Too Much Power To The President- |
The One Reason Why All Americans Should Oppose The Nomination Of Samuel
Alito
He Would Tear Down Our System Of Checks And Balances, Giving Far Too
Much Power To The President
HTML at http://www.loveallpeople.org/theonereasonwhy.html
My Fellow Americans:
As many of you may have heard, President Bush has nominated a long-time
Federal Judge named Samuel Alito to become the next member of the
United States Supreme Court, to fill a vacancy created by the
retirement of another member of the Court.
Under our Constitution, this nomination cannot take effect unless and
until the United States Senate gives its Consent, as described in our
Constitution, Article II, Section 2. A copy of the Constitution, with
links back to the official source, is located at
http://loveallpeople.org/usconstitutiona.txt
Judge Samuel Alito is very highly qualified by all of the normal
standards used to evaluate candidates for this position: He has a very
high intellect. He graduated very high in his class, from Princeton
undergraduate and from Law School at Yale. He has a long and
distinguished record, including many years as a Federal Appeals Judge,
the next level below Supreme Court. He has encyclopedic knowledge of
hundreds of different Supreme Court cases, and he can recite details
from memory. He demonstrates an excellent "Judicial Temperament," being
courteous, mild-mannered, respectful of all people; careful in his
work, meticulous in detail. His co-workers love him. His fellow judges
love him. His family loves him. President Bush loves him.
Yes, it is true that some people don't like the way they think he will
vote on the Supreme Court. But other people do like the way they think
he will vote, and the ones who favor him seem to outnumber the ones who
oppose him.
So now the Senate is getting ready to vote soon, on whether to approve
him or not; and at this moment (evening of Jan. 27, 2006) it looks like
he has more than the fifty-one votes needed for approval. The President
is very eager to go ahead quickly and get this vote, because he very
much wants to have Samuel Alito on the Supreme Court, to be judging the
cases Bush is interested in. So there is a lot of hurry-up pressure on
the Senate to give its prompt vote of approval.
There is an old saying that applies in this situation: "Act in haste,
repent at leisure." Sometimes you can make a bad decision very quickly,
then regret it for many years to come.
That is what is about to happen with Judge Samuel Alito, in my opinion,
because he has one tragic flaw - a very serious blind spot in his
thinking - which makes him completely unacceptable for the position of
Supreme Court Justice: He does not really agree with the system of
"Checks and Balances" built into the Constitution, and he is ready to
start tearing it down in order to follow the "Unitary Executive
Theory," which calls for vastly-increased Presidential Power at the
expense of Congress and the Supreme Court.
And because of this tragic flaw . . .
"He Would Tear Down Our System Of Checks And Balances,
Giving Far Too Much Power To The President."
In our Constitutional system, we have three branches of the Federal
Government: the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches. And the
basic idea behind the Checks and Balances we have is that if one branch
of the Government goes crazy, the other two can hold it down.
But Samuel Alito believes in a little-known Constitutional theory -
called the "Unitary Executive Theory" - which says that the President
should have complete control over the Executive Branch, and that the
Executive Branch should be in charge of almost everything that the
Government actually does, including the functions of the Independent
Agencies which were designed to be free of Presidential control, and
the Military, which exists, which is regulated, and which is funded by
specific authority given by the Constitution to Congress, not to the
President. The Military is not part of the Executive Branch: it is a
separate entity. "Commander In Chief" doesn't mean that he is the boss
of the Military, merely that he is the Administrator, just as he is the
Administrator of the Executive Branch, charged with "executing
faithfully" all the laws passed by Congress and all the Decisions
rendered by the Supreme Court.
Under the Unitary Executive Theory, the Laws of Congress and Decisions
of the Supreme Court have no actual authority unless the President
agrees with them. And so Congress and the Supreme Court become mere
advisors to the President, with no real authority over him. And the
President becomes a Dictator, unrestrained by anything in the
Constitution, backed up by the Armed Forces, which would be entirely
under his personal control.
And thus the United States of America - The Land Of The Free And The
Home Of The Brave - becomes just another Military Dictatorship, no
better than Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy during World War II.
AND THAT IS WHY ALL AMERICANS SHOULD OPPOSE THE NOMINATION OF SAMUEL
ALITO.
For details and further proof, please see these websites:
Testimony at
http://judiciary.senate.gov/testimony.cfm?id=1725&wit_id=4905
Descriptions and Links at http://www.UnitaryExecutive.net
Blessings to you. May God help us all. And may God bless America!
Rev. Bill McGinnis, Director
http://www.LoveAllPeople.org
and http://www.InternetchurchOfChrist.org
Copies of this message are located below. If you want to help, please
send them to everyone you know who needs to read them.
http://www.loveallpeople.org/theonereasonwhy.html and
http://www.loveallpeople.org/theonereasonwhy.txt
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| User: "Bret Cahill" |
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| Title: Re: The One Reason Why All Americans Should Oppose The Nomination Of Samuel Alito: He Would Tear Down Our System Of Checks And Balances, Giving Far Too Much Power To The President- |
28 Jan 2006 08:06:44 AM |
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That'll just give Hillary more power.
It's easy to get Scalito to flippity flop like Scalia does on states'
rights depending on if it is a red or blue state.
Just follow Clinton's advice and get elected.
Bret Cahill
"If you don't talk to them, they won't vote for you."
-- Clinton
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