When historians look back at this time in history, they’ll condemn Congress for dereliction of duty. It’s bad enough that our elected representatives take five week vacations without addressing our national healthcare crisis, which they created, or a looming budget showdown. No, this body would rather conduct oversight hearings that accomplish nothing and pass continuing resolutions that fund a bloated government.
However, I’m here to say that their real sin is not reining in an out-of-control federal judiciary. We have judges who’re adjudicating and enforcing policies that are way beyond their jurisdiction. Congress is the only body that has the authority to pass immigration laws. It is Congress, who dictates what the federal judiciary can and cannot address as per Article III in the U.S. Constituion.
We have a crisis of epic proportions in this country due to judicial activism. We have judges actively endangering the lives of citizens and undermining the value of citizenship. Here is the latest outrage as reported by USA Today:
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia halts the planned implementation Friday of Senate Bill 4, according to the American-Statesman.
The law allows local law enforcement to ask anyone who is legally detained or arrested for their immigration status during routine interactions such as traffic stops, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Garcia granted the preliminary injunction after five Texas cities, several counties and sheriffs challenged the law's constitutionality.
The judge wrote in his 94-page order that there is "overwhelming evidence" that the law "will erode public trust and make many communities and neighborhoods less safe," the Los Angeles Times reported.
Garcia also wrote that "localities will suffer adverse economic consequences which, in turn, will harm the state of Texas.”
Immigrants' rights groups complained that the measure could force anyone who looks as if they are in the country illegally to "show papers."
Do they not teach American history in law school? Citizens have been demanding immigrants to “show papers” before there was a United States. Here is an excerpt from The Great Wagon Road by Parke Rouse, Jr. that I found interesting:
In the November rains, the two Moravians started southward again. They found creeks swollen with muddy rainwater. When they reached the Rappahannock, they crossed in a canoe and stopped at an inn kept by a German emigrant named Christopher Kuefer. For several days they plodded through Virginia’s highlands in the rain. Near Orange County Courthouse they were stopped by an English settler who demanded to see their passport. When Schnell demurred, several farmers conducted him with rifles to a justice of the peace of Orange County. But the German produced his passport there, and he and Hussey were permitted to proceed.
A federal judge does not have the authority to create law, that is Congress’ responsibility. It’s also Congress’ responsibility to limit the jurisdiction of these rogue justices and if possible eliminating repeat offenders.
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