Jersey Supreme Court Jesters

Jersey Supreme Court Jesters
by Ted Lang, Associate Editor

October 16, 2002

Columnist Ted Lang "Mr. Torricelli's sharp decline in the polls was seen as the most pivotal development in the fight for control of the Senate," offered the Washington Times' Donald Lambro. In his September 28th article, "Democrats fear losing majority in Senate," Lambro states of Torricelli: "He was considered a shoo-in for re-election to a second term - he had a 14-point lead over Mr. Forrester - before last month's sharp rebuke by the Senate ethics committee." He quotes pollster John Zogby as offering: "Torricelli looks like toast."

Now a few politicians overrode the wishes of 190,000 voters who chose Torricelli in the primary. Only Democrat Party control over the New Jersey media allowed this to happen. In a state where only left-liberal Democrats and "Republicans-in-name-only" [RINO] left-liberal "moderates" predominate, the seven leftists of the New Jersey Supreme Court decided they could do what they damned well please.

Long before all of this, we had the evolving struggle for governmental power between the states and the growing power of the federal government. It was a process of marking territories of control between the states and Washington, DC. Senators were previously appointed, that's right, appointed by the legislatures of each state. To eliminate the perceived problem of "hung" legislatures resulting in no representation for such states in the federal Senate over extended periods of time, the solution offered was the 17th Amendment to the Constitution. This Amendment eliminates the appointment of United States Senators by state legislatures and establishes their direct popular election.

Considering this background, isn't the New Jersey Judiciary's Torricelli/Lautenberg discombobulation hilarious? In order to prevent hung legislatures, as was once the case with New York early in the history of our republic, we now have an arrangement where neither the New Jersey State Legislature nor the United States Congress is empowered to act to resolve this impasse. Instead, as Jefferson feared, the most corruptible branch of government, namely the judiciary, is now circumventing and eradicating the rule of law by establishing their own, thereby nullifying the will of voters and disenfranchising them, the members of the New Jersey State Legislature and the Congress of the United States! Seven black-robed media-empowered leftists rule and are now writing legislation instead of merely clarifying and interpreting its application verifying spirit and intent.

This brings us to a consideration of the legal remedies available to all. As concerns the unconstitutionality promoted by this small, despotic oligarchy of black-robed tyrants, headed by Chief "Justice" Deborah Poritz, who partnered with Sammy Newhouse's Newark Star-Ledger to destroy the Boy Scouts of America, impeachment of these seven criminals by the New Jersey State Legislature is certainly in order. As to Torricelli opponent Doug Forrester's arguments, which he attempted to resolve before the United States Supreme Court, that predictably went nowhere. Forrester's complaint is strictly a matter for resolution within the government of the State of New Jersey.

But as regards an issue of Federal Election Law and equal access by all registered voters, the Jersey Court Jesters action of ignoring the 51-day candidate change preclusion puts at risk equal access by overseas voters who are primarily members of the military. Those voters will, in all probability, be denied their right to vote. Now that's a federal matter, and comes under the jurisdiction of the US Supreme Court.

The federal court, it will be recalled, had to overturn Poritz's demented logic after she denied the Boy Scouts their right to exclude as leaders homosexuals. Her thoughts were that the Scouts' right of establishing a moral code that didn't agree with hers should be abolished. The Scouts sought relief, and the federal court granted it citing freedom of association under the First Amendment. Clearly, the only way this incompetent was appointed, and the only thing she understands, is politics. And in this way, it can be easily shown, that politics in any and all its forms, is usually incorrect. ***

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