"Contrary to all correct example, [the Federal judiciary] are in the habit of going out of the question before them, to throw an anchor ahead and grapple further hold for future advances of power. They are then in fact the corps of sappers and miners, steadily working to undermine the independent rights of the States and to consolidate all power in the hands of that government in which they have so important a freehold estate." --Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, 1821. ME 1:121
"The judges... are practicing on the Constitution by inferences, analogies, and sophisms, as they would on an ordinary law. They do not seem aware that it is not even a Constitution formed by a single authority and subject to a single superintendence and control, but that it is a compact of many independent powers, every single one of which claims an equal right to understand it and to require its observance." --Thomas Jefferson to Edward Livingston, 1825. ME 16:113
"[The] practice of Judge Marshall of travelling out of his case to prescribe what the law would be in a moot case not before the court, is very irregular and very censurable." --Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 1823. ME 15:447 29.6 Consolidating Decisions
"The great object of my fear is the Federal Judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting with noiseless foot and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step and holding what it gains, is engulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them." --Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, 1821. ME 15:326
"The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our Constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone. This will lay all things at their feet, and they are too well versed in English law to forget the maxim, 'boni judicis est ampliare jurisdictionem.'" --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 1820. ME 15:297
"It has long been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression,... that the germ of dissolution of our Federal Government is in the constitution of the Federal Judiciary--an irresponsible body (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow), working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief over the field of jurisdiction until all shall be usurped from the States and the government be consolidated into one. To this I am opposed." --Thomas Jefferson to Charles Hammond, 1821. ME 15:331
Literally every major social change: Banning School Prayer, Legalized Abortion, Decriminalizing Sodomy, and Gay Marriage, against the clear majority of the popular will, has since WW2 come from the Courts. As well as giving Abstract Property Corporations the fundamental Rights of a Flesh and Blood Human Being. Forcible Sterilization/Eugenics was upheld by the Supreme Court (as posted elsewhere today).
SCOTUS has even saved it's own ass by pandering to Presidents threatening Court Packing, by upholding a ridiculous rule that foodstuffs never sold at all, much less sold interstate, fell under Federal Rules. The Judge who did that was also named Roberts - and all his papers were burned upon his death.
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Literally every major social change: Banning School Prayer, Legalized Abortion, Decriminalizing Sodomy, and Gay Marriage, against the clear majority of the popular will, has since WW2 come from the Courts. As well as giving Abstract Property Corporations the fundamental Rights of a Flesh and Blood Human Being. Forcible Sterilization/Eugenics was upheld by the Supreme Court (as posted elsewhere today).
SCOTUS has even saved it's own ass by pandering to Presidents threatening Court Packing, by upholding a ridiculous rule that foodstuffs never sold at all, much less sold interstate, fell under Federal Rules. The Judge who did that was also named Roberts - and all his papers were burned upon his death.