The Court Has Made It's Decision. Now... Can They Enforce It???

The Supreme Court has no power to enforce their decisions.

I have written before of the US Supreme Court’s habit of taking on powers that it does not have. But I have not , before today, pointed out that any decisions they make can only be carried out so long as the people and the government enforce them. Otherwise any decision made by the Supreme Court is moot!

The ONLY US President born in my home county of South Carolina, pretty much flipped the bird to the Supreme Court, and Chief Justice John Marshall, and got away with it.

"The Supreme Court cannot directly enforce its rulings; instead, it relies on respect for the Constitution and for the law for adherence to its judgments. One notable instance of nonacquiescence came in 1832, when the state of Georgia ignored the Supreme Court's decision in Worcester v. Georgia. President Andrew Jackson, who sided with the Georgia courts, is supposed to have remarked, "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!"; however, this quotation is likely apocryphal. State militia in the South also resisted the desegregation of public schools after the 1954 judgment Brown v. Board of Education. More recently, many feared that President Richard Nixon would refuse to comply with the Court's order in United States v. Nixon (1974) to surrender the Watergate tapes. Nixon, however, ultimately complied with the Supreme Court's ruling." (From Wikipedia)

Knowing something of the history of "Ole Hickory", I have to tell you, I believe President Jackson actually said those words, but... I expect the air around them was blue with profanity!

So now the Supreme Court has made a decision concerning Military Tribunals and the terrorists we have locked up all over the place. The Court ignored the Constitution’s placement of power in a single Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces and have taken it upon themselves to make null and void an order of said Commander in Chief.

So, how then, do they propose to enforce their decision… if the Bush Administration refuses to abide by it? And, frankly, I’d like to see the Bush Administration thumb their collective noses at the Court and go full steam ahead with the Tribunals. They won’t, of course. It takes guts… like the guts Andy Jackson had! There is very little of that in evidence anywhere in our government today.

Our courts, both military and civilian, will be bogged down for years, if not for decades, with these useless trials... as a result of this godawful decision of the US Supreme Court!

The folks over at “The American Thinker” have some thoughts on this. It is an excellent read. We highly recommend that you take the time to read their thoughtful piece. You can find it at:

http://americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=5498

As Lord Acton said: “Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely”.

Seems to me, we have no choice left but to reign in our courts and the entire judicial system. They have taken it upon themselves to amend our constitution by fiat. That, in itself, is unconstitutional, yet we haven’t called them on the carpet for it and brought it to a halt.

The past liberal administrations of our government have packed the courts with liberal judges and that must be changed. If America is to survive, we must regain control, of our judiciary.

Longstreet