View Single Post
Old 04-06-2007, 12:36 PM   #16 (permalink)
Rekna
Junkie
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
so by that first statement, congress enacts a new law, and a judge cannot overturn it without risking his job. Again, shortsighted against the checks and balances.
If the judge can show legally why he overturned it there shouldn't be a problem. But what if the judge decided to enact his own laws that were not constitutional? For instance what if a judge decided a US citizen shouldn't be given Habeous Corpus.
Rekna is offline  
 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73