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Add Comment | Comments: 0 | Posted Jan. 26, 2012

To the Editor:

Gov. Tom Corbett on a radio talk show blamed federal judges on the Third Circuit Court for obstructing Pennsylvania in the execution of death sentences. He repeated a number of times that the individuals on the court were lifetime appointees. Under the Constitution, Congress created all the federal courts with the exception of the Supreme Court and has power to transform the courts and its rules and regulations. This is a major check written in the Constitution to keep power in the hands of the people through their representatives. Any lifetime rule can be done away with.

Would it not better serve Pennsylvanians to educate and prompt them to prompt their legislators to reform the federal court system so that federal judges conform to the Constitution than to perpetuate the myth that judges cannot be removed and the people are helpless and must endure any ruling under the tyranny of the courts? The Constitution is written to secure the power of the people not to enslave them to judges and politicians. Ignorance is a powerful enemy to the people.

The Constitution secures and protects the rights of the people and their states to uphold their standards and values. It is not a vehicle for individual judges to further their own agenda by misusing the courts. Throughout the 20th century, despite Constitutional checks and balances to prevent abuse of power, certain federal judges have used their office to alter our nation against the standards and values of the people who created the government and the courts. The government including the courts should reflect the standards and values of the people through their Constitution which declares the ultimate supremacy of the people in the preamble, “We the people...” not we the Supreme Court.

Washington, Madison, Franklin and the other delegates did not write a Constitution whereby a judge or a few judges have the final say over the nation. The people have the final say and the delegates worked for a long time in Philadelphia crafting and framing the greatest governmental document produced by man to insure that.

Alfred Essex
South Philadelphia

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