A Judge on Alabama's Supreme Court is lashing out at the once "liberal" Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). Alabama's Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker (no not Elvis's manager), has taken up the lance in the charge that SCOTUS in the past has refused to follow the US Constitution and instead has been enforcing its own ideaology and imposing foreign laws and unratified treaties.
That is what the High Court did, he wrote in the News, when the Court's "liberal judges "declared last spring in the case of Roper v. Simmons that "evolving standards of decency" now make it "unconstitutional" to execute murderers who were minors at the time of their crime.
The justices based their ruling not on the original intent or actual language of the United States Constitution but on foreign law, including United Nations treaties.
By insisting the states go along with the unratified treaty, laws in 20 states were invalidated. At the same time by doing so it has bypassed the treaty- making authority of the President and the Senate. Parker then stabbed at the SCOTUS for their declaration that it is illegal for the States to display the Ten Commandments, and thus (with the help of the ACLU) forced one time Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore to leave his position on the Court. If you remember Moore refused to follow SCOTUS ruling on the Ten Commandments and had him removed from the bench.
Parker also took a swing at the Alabama Supreme Court by saying that he was dismayed and surprised that they (ASC) caved in to the SCOTUS without a fight or word of protest. Judge Parker also stated, "State supreme court judges should not follow obviously wrong decisions simply because they are precedents," he explained. "After all, a judge takes an oath to support the Constitution - not to automatically follow activist judges who believe their own devolving standards of decency trump the text of the Constitution."
Well Judge Parker, although the past can not be redone, this is a new court. A more, shall we say, balanced court (right leaning). One can only hope that some of the decisions made by the libeal courts in the past, can be overturned and "justice" shall be restored. But it is refreshing to know that there are still Justices out there that still have some respect for the Constitution and for the rights of others.
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