Radically reform federal courts

By Bruce Walker February 11, 2017

The left lives only through the most entrenched and insulated systems of pseudo-aristocratic cadres: the colluding establishment media corporations, the tenured and pampered education mafia, the Washington insider complex of bureaucrats and legislative staffers, and the federal judicial system. The most dangerous and destructive of these is the last. The Constitution created a system of checks and balances, but this system largely rested on robust sovereign states and a Congress that held most federal power. Both of these bulwarks against a relapse to that sort of arrogant and remote rule that prompted our Revolution have been gutted so that neither exercises much power today at all..........Until the powers of federal courts are radically reduced (i.e., returned to the powers envisioned in the Constitution), nothing will really change.  Republicans in Congress can and ought to undertake this grand reform.  Taming the federal bench will require political courage, but it is vital, and it can be done with three specific steps.......... Read more