Rick Santorum Voted to Confirm Sonia Sotomayor

Hat tip to Jay Sekulow of ACLJ for spreading the word about Rick Santorum’s vote to confirm Sonia Sotomayor, a Constitution-hating black robed-bandit.  I got a call with a recorded message from the Mitt Romney campaign with Sekulow’s voice telling me this today. This was not the nomination to the Supreme Court, but for the almost as important 2^nd Circuit Court of the U.S.  (I checked this out because I trust neither Romney nor Sekulow to tell the truth.  Click here to see the vote which took place October 2, 1998.)  It is, in fact, true that Santorum joined the majority of the Democrats and RINOs like Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Arlen Specter, Mike DeWine, and Lisa Murkowski in voting for the abortion-loving jurist.   But even John McCain and the liberal Chuck Hagel didn’t vote for this confirmation. 

If there had been just five more no votes, then the confirmation would have failed.  I don’t think that could have happened, though.  The outcome was obviously predetermined.  Rick Santorum must have drawn the short straw and he had to vote for it just like No Child Left Behind.  What a “team player”!  What an idiot! 

But I cannot, however, take Sekulow’s advice and vote for his choice Mitt Romney because he is even more reprehensible.  Instead I will vote for Ron Paul, the author of the judicial activist-busting We the People Act.

Vote No on Ohio Issue 1, 2011

Hear Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis on their new radio show "Principles and Policies" talk about Issue 1 at the links below:

part 1: http://www.principledpolicy.com/?p=982
part 2: http://www.principledpolicy.com/?p=984

I don't think that there should be any age limits for judges at all.  But while I disagree with Barry and Chuck about raising the age limits, I am glad that they called to my attention that this is not the only issue addressed by Issue 1.  Issue 1 would repeal an 1851 provision which allowed the General Assembly to create courts of conciliation and an 1867 provision allowing a Supreme Court Commission to be created to deal with backlogs.  Courts of conciliation were designed in part to help stop divorces.  Please read the article at the following URL before voting on this issue:

http://www.divorcereform.info/index.php/Failure-of-Current-Divorce-Laws/Marriage-Saving-in-Court-Ohio-s-Conciliation-of-Marital-Controversies.html

Here is the ballot language:

1  PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 
TO INCREASE THE MAXIMUM AGE AT WHICH A PERSON MAY BE ELECTED OR APPOINTED JUDGE, TO ELIMINATE THE AUTHORITY OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO ESTABLISH COURTS OF CONCILIATION, AND TO ELIMINATE THE AUTHORITY OF THE GOVERNOR TO APPOINT A SUPREME COURT COMMISSION PROPOSED BY JOINT RESOLUTION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO AMEND SECTION 6 OF ARTICLE IV AND TO REPEAL SECTIONS 19 AND 22 OF ARTICLE IV OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF OHIO 


A majority yes vote is required for the amendment to Section 6 and the repeal of Sections 19 and 22 to pass. 
This proposed amendment would: 
1.  Increase the maximum age for assuming elected or appointed judicial office from seventy to seventy-five. 
2.  Eliminate the General Assembly’s authority to establish courts of conciliation. 
3.  Eliminate the Governor’s authority to appoint members to a Supreme Court Commission. 
If approved, the amendment shall take effect immediately. 
A “YES” vote means approval of the amendment to Section 6 and the repeal of Sections 19 and 22. 

A “NO” vote means disapproval of the amendment to Section 6 and the repeal of Sections 19 and 22. 

The Rule of Law Part 1 of 3

Idolatry

Whenever I hear the term, “Rule of Law,” used it reminds me of the trial of Jesus. Pontius Pilate said. “… “… I find no basis for a charge against him.” The Jews replied, “We have a law, and by that law He ought to die for him being a man makes himself the Son of God.” (1) They were claiming this was the rule of law that Jesus violated. This was after Pilate had offered to release a prisoner to the people and asked if they wanted him to release the King of the Jews. To this the people answered, “Not Him but Barabbas. (2) They rejected the true God for something else. Isn’t this idolatry?

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Citing the law releases the person of responsibility for moral conduct thereby promoting irresponsibility, injustice and wickedness. The wicked make mischief by law (3) and evil judges make oppressive decrees. (4)

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The state legislature in Utah showed the power of the law when they passed a law stating that the Great Salt Lake could not rise above a certain elevation. That winter heavy snows were laid in the mountains around the Lake. When thy melted and the water flowed into the lake it rose ten feet above the elevation the law specified. The law did not have the ability to rule over the weather, the runoff or stop the lake from rising.

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Laws in the rule of law are made by men and put on a document. It does not have the ability to rule in and of itself. Only people rule. With the rule of law it is the priest of the law who rule and their decrees become law. They wear black robes and are called judges. Men and women serve to light the fires of intellect by their wisdom and insight. They are known as lawyers. Finally, the enforcers of the law provide the power for the law known as law enforcement. These are commonly called marshalls, police, sheriffs and agents.

The law then becomes what these people say it is. If they are evil, the law becomes evil. If they are good, the law becomes good. In the Old Testament Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, told Moses to appoint leaders to judge the people who feared God and could be trusted not to take a bribe. (5) God says that when one rules over men in righteousness in the fear of God, he is like the morning light at sunrise on a cloudless morning or the brightness after the rain which causes the grass to spring forth from the earth.

(1) John 19:6, 7
(2) John 18:29, 40
(3) Psalm 94:20
(4) Isaiah 10:1,2
(5) Exodus 18:21, 22
(6) 2 Samuel 23:3, 4