Friday, September 24, 2004

Showdown

Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed a law preventing federal courts from striking "under G-d" from the Pledge Of Allegiance.

The vote was generally along party lines. In fact, for quite a while, conservatives have been telling Republicans to pull this trick. You see, according to the Constitution, Article III, Section 2, there can be "exceptions" to Supreme Court jurisdiction, "under such regulations as the Congress shall make."

Most scholars feel that the Supreme Court is the ultimate arbiter of constitutionality--a power the court claimed for itself in the groundbreaking Marbury V. Madison (1803).

I don't know what the Founding Fathers would have thought. Perhaps they believed Congress was just as competent at determining constitutionality as the Supreme Court. But I strongly doubt the Court, if this law gets there, will allow this limiting of their jurisdiction. I speak not as a legal scholar, but as an amateur psychologist. Let's face it, they're not gonna put up with Congress poaching on their biggest power.

7 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I can easily imagine that there a host of arguments against doing this. It's the P.J. O'Rourke line about pinning a "kick me" sign on the back of the law.

But it would be even worse for the court to start declaring that it alone has the power to decide what it alone has the power to decide (which is something larger than Marbury, in reality a late 19th century creation than an early one, said) . . . the societally suicidal part of me would almost like to see it.

5:25 AM, September 25, 2004  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Republicans have actually picked the right issue to try this, since here's a case that has the Supreme Court running scared. The liberals don't think the Pledge is constitutional but they know if they strike it down there'll be a popular uproar and perhaps a Constitutional amendment. Look how they punted the last time they had a chance to consider the issue--they tossed out the case on lack of standing.

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