Supreme Court, Congress, and tyranny
The Washington Times has written an analysis of the Supreme Court decisions impacting the occupant of the Oval Office. The nine justices, two of whom were appointed by the “president,” have rejected his expansion of powers in 9-0 decisions 20 times in five years. While the June 30 decisions on socialized medicine and compulsory union dues were not unanimous, they were an indication of how conservatives and liberals have differing views on what the same words mean, and that the term “liberal” is becoming exponentially redefined as “tyrannical” in the interpretation of law. The divide on use of executive power and government intrusion in personal and religious life in America is widening.
Congress should not need an unelected Supreme Court to rule that dictatorial executive authority and overreaching government is unconstitutional. Moreover, American citizens do not need an unelected court to tell them when their rights are violated by executive fiat. There are some things that are obvious. The problem here is that the Supreme Court and the courts under them do not recognize that all law is originated and given by God. He is the source of the law. Law cannot be just with man rejecting God and building precept upon precept from man’s interpretation of what is just. Ecclesiastes 7:20 says, “For there is not a just man upon earth, that does good, and sins not.”
Notwithstanding, Ohio Republican and Speaker of the House John Boehner said, “Today’s decision is a victory for religious freedom and another defeat for an administration that has repeatedly crossed constitutional lines in pursuit of its big government objectives.” All well and good except that Boehner and his colleagues have Constitutional responsibility to challenge a president over abuse of executive authority. Article 1 Section 2 of the US Constitution gives the House the sole “Power of Impeachment” and Article 3 gives the Senate the sole “Power to try all Impeachments.” Article 2 Section 3 requires the President to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”
This “president” has publicly said that he will not enforce certain laws that he does not agree with, including Defense of Marriage, immigration laws and border security, privacy laws, laws against negotiating with and funding terrorists, and those that pertain to religious freedom and freedom of speech. While the Supreme Court has done well to heal the hurt of the citizens slightly, Boehner and his colleagues have done little but grandstand in abdicating their Constitutional responsibilities to a lawless president. They are an Isaiah 59:13 group: “In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.”
