We received the following message from GrasstopsUSA yesterday and we heartily endorse its purpose. It is focused on a constitutional response to the recent Supreme Court decision requiring the legalization and recognition of same-sex marriage nationwide. We do not know if the process will nullify (as in vacate) a previous decision but it will stop further sequelae of the unanchored lawless assault by the Supreme Court on representative government and all that their decision portends.
Republican Leaders Are Lying To You. Congress CAN Nullify The Lawless Supreme Court Decree That Two Men Can Marry… And They Can Do It Tomorrow! This news might come as something of a shock to some of you, but Congress has the CLEAR and UNDENIABLE authority and power, under Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution of the United States, to NULLIFY the recent lawless decree by five unelected black-robed tyrants that elevates perversion to the status of marriage.
All it takes is a simple majority vote in the House and the Senate and, once it is done, the courts have no power to rule on it and Barack Obama has no authority to veto it. If Congress votes… IT IS DONE.
So why isn’t Congress taking a vote right now? … Why have so few in the media brought this simple Constitutional remedy to your attention? Senator Ted Cruz said it best: “Sadly, the political reaction from the leaders of my party is all too predictable. They will pretend to be incensed, and then plan to do absolutely nothing. That is unacceptable.”
(GrasstopsUSA proposes blast faxes – see link and note at end)
Now, some of you are already asking; if the solution to vacating this ruling is so simple, why isn’t Congress doing it right now? We’ll get to that, but first let’s talk about Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution of the United States.
Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution of the United States states: “[T]he Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.” [Emphasis Ours]
And yes, stripping the Supreme Court of jurisdiction on cases has been done, otherwise attempted and affirmed on countless occasions:
After the Civil War, a newspaper publisher was jailed under the accusation of publishing “incendiary and libelous” articles and Congress moved in and stripped the Court’s jurisdiction to hear the matter. Nonetheless, the publisher asked the High Court to order his release and the Supreme Court UNANIMOUSLY stated that it had no authority to hear the case.
Conservative icon Phyllis Schlafy points out: “When Chief Justice John Roberts was Special Assistant to the Attorney General during the Reagan Administration, he wrote a 27-page document defending the constitutional power of Congress to limit federal court jurisdiction.”
A former Supreme Court Justice, Owen Roberts, went so far as to push for a Constitutional Amendment that would limit Congress’ power under Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution. It actually passed the United States Senate in 1953 but then died unceremoniously.
And back in 1981, Members of Congress proposed 22 bills seeking to remove the Supreme Court’s power to hear cases involving such issues as prayer in the schools and abortion. Unfortunately, the conservative revolution was just in its infancy and conservatives could not muster the votes in the Tip O’Neill-controlled House of Representatives to pass any of them.
But now… Republicans control Congress. Getting the votes needed to execute Article III, Section 2 isn’t the problem. The problem is that patriotic Americans aren’t calling them on the carpet to do it and you can change that right here and right now.
(GrasstopsUSA proposes blast faxes – see link and note at end)
Senator Ted Cruz’s statement bears repeating: “Sadly, the political reaction from the leaders of my party is all too predictable. They will pretend to be incensed, and then plan to do absolutely nothing. That is unacceptable.”
Why? … Perhaps they are secure in the knowledge that you do not know that they have the power under Article III, Section 2 to vacate this tyrannical ruling… after all, what you don’t know, won’t hurt them.
And to be totally frank, as wild as it may sound, many of them don’t even know that they have the power… they don’t read legislation and they’ve never bothered to read the Constitution.
Otherwise… you’ll hear lots of excuses. You’ll hear that Republicans fear taking on this issue because the media will paint them as bigots… you’ll hear that it’s a blessing that the Supreme Court took this issue off the table so they can campaign on other issues…
Don’t believe it. They don’t fear this issue and they don’t want it to go away… perish the thought, they plan to campaign on it… they plan to feign indignation for the next 18 months so you’ll gullibly give them your vote in 2016.
Barack Obama’s former Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel use to say that you should never let a good crisis go to waste. The corollary to that theorem one that our Republican leaders are following right now is that one should never let a good campaign issue go to waste. Why bother SOLVING a problem when you can CAMPAIGN on a problem… and that’s exactly why those who are in the know are trying to pull the wool over your eyes.
And yes… they’d love nothing more than for patriotic Americans to waste their time chasing windmills.
As The Hon. Bob Marshall with the Virginia House of Delegates noted: “Liberals, and faux conservatives who duck social issues, would love to send grassroots conservatives on a futile, wild goose chase in a multi-year pursuit of a Marriage Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.”
Don’t get us or Marshall wrong, a Marriage Amendment is needed but pushing for a Marriage Amendment that can take years to pass, does not absolve our Republican leaders from failing to do what must be done TODAY.
As a matter of fact, Cruz has already put a Constitutional Amendment on the table in addition to legislation to invoke Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution on this very issue and now it’s up to folks like us to start drowning Congress with phone calls and faxes and force these yokels to bring Cruz’ legislation to the floor for an up-or-down vote.
Every Member of Congress must go on record and answer the following question: Do you support the actions of five tyrannical and out-of-control Justices of the Supreme Court, or do you support the Constitution of the United States? We must not allow them to duck that question.
(GrasstopsUSA proposes blast faxes – see link and note at end)
Invoking Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution is not the only solution, but, unlike the others, it only takes a simple majority of Congress to pass and it is not subject to an Obama veto or court review… if it passes, it is done.
But more will need to be done because once Congress invokes Article III, Section 2, there will be a lot of unfinished business that needs the American people’s attention.
Undoubtedly, some localities and states will likely decide that they are going to honor a defunct SCOTUS ruling anyway, but states and localities who choose to defend the sanctity of marriage will be free to do so… and leftist black-robed tyrants won’t have anything to say about it.
At that point, patriotic Americans can then move forward. As previously stated, Senator Cruz is already moving forward with a Constitutional Amendment “to preserve the authority of elected state legislatures to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.”
But in the meantime, invoking Article III, Section 2 will send a clear message to Barack Hussein Obama and all the black-robed tyrants across the nation.
They will know that Congress is willing to propose Constitutional amendments…
They will know that Congress is willing to strip jurisdiction when necessary…
They will know that Congress is once again willing to use its power to wreak havoc on a noncompliant judiciary and redraw federal districts (as Congress did in the 60s in response to voting rights)…
They will know that Congress is willing to use its power of the purse (in this case, all it takes is an appropriations rider on all spending bills stating “no funds appropriated hereunder may be used to implement the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Obergefell”)…
And they will know that Congress is even willing to impeach…
(GrasstopsUSA proposes blast faxes – see link and note at end)
Make no mistake, when you start making calls and sending Blast Faxes to Washington, THE DYNAMIC WILL IMMEDIATELY CHANGE, and RINOs, leftists in Congress and media elites will counter and start telling you that what you are advocating is “extreme.”
It’s not… Our courts are out of control. Their authority must be questioned by patriotic Americans because when tyranny rears its ugly head, it must be vanquished:
“By redefining the meaning of common words, and redesigning the most basic human institutions, this Court has crossed from the realm of activism into the arena of oligarchy.” -Ted Cruz
“The Supreme Court’s twisting of the Fourteenth Amendment–enacted after the shedding of blood of over a half a million Americans for equal rights for black Americans–into a mandate for same-sex “marriage” must be challenged immediately and effectively. Many millions of Americans who voted to support and adhere to the millennia-old consensus on marriage must question the authority and judgment of the Court.” -Robert Marshall, Virginia House of Delegates
“During the past fifty years, the Court has condemned millions of innocent unborn children to death, banished God from our schools and public squares, extended constitutional protections to prisoners of war on foreign soil, authorized the confiscation of property from one private owner to transfer it to another, and now requires all Americans to purchase a specific product, and to accept the redefinition of an institution ordained by God and long predating the formation of the Court.” -Ted Cruz
To quote Cruz one more time: “Enough is enough. The time has come, therefore, to recognize that the problem lies not with the lawless rulings of individual lawless Justices, but with the lawlessness of the Court itself.”
Radical black-robed tyrants are the disease. Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution is the cure, but no one in Congress is going to administer this much-needed medicine unless you demand it. The time to demand it is now.
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every Member of the Republican Leadership of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives and the Republican Members of Congress who have declared their candidacies for President of the United States. Or alternatively, send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every Member of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. That’s over 290 Blast Faxes.
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Chris Carmouche
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Town halls and political meetings are also effective ways to get the message to federal legislators
As an alternative to the “blast faxes” which we do not want to diminish as an effective tool, we would be remiss if we did not remind readers that House and Senate members are in their districts frequently this summer. Approaching the Republican members about this one to one, in a town hall or political event before Republican audiences, serves to call them to task as the GrasstopsUSA letter advocates. With that in mind the GrassrootsUSA site linked to above has a shorter message that if printed can serve as notes to your communication and to hand to the federal legislator (and others). Contact information to send an E-mail message is available on our Legislator Links page located on our page bar at top. We also support that similar messages be sent to Republican Party officials.
When contacting your Republican federal legislator or party official, if they oppose or are unsure about using Article III Section 2 powers available to Congress ask them why that provision is there if not to protect states rights and the people from incompetence and overreaching by federal courts and gross assaults by them on the warp and woof of our constitutional republic form of government ?
