The United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.
Previously Recorded by Phyllis Schlafly
Our country needs good judges for the same reason that baseball needs honest and fair umpires. Someone has to call the balls and strikes and resolve close plays. But umpires are never allowed to change the rules of the game. We would not tolerate an umpire who called a batter out after two strikes.
What's been happening in America is that judges have been changing the rules and it's time for our citizens to call a halt. We should not tolerate judges who try to change the rules of marriage that have been adopted by the legislatures of all fifty states plus Congress, and which have been the rule for centuries. We should not tolerate judges who presume to rewrite the First Amendment to give the green light to pornography but censor into silence our mention of the name of God in the Pledge of Allegiance.
One of the "usurpations" that caused Americans to declare our independence in 1776 was royal rulers' "declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever." The signers of the Declaration of Independence knew that the essence of freedom is the right to be a self-governing people, to have laws made by representatives whom the voters elect, because government can justly exercise only such powers as are based on "the consent of the governed." If we are to remain a free and independent nation, we must reject judicial "usurpations," that is, the pretense of judges that they are "invested with Power to legislate for us in all cases." The Constitution states that "all" legislative power is in the Congress; that means none is in the judiciary.
Our country's future depends on a courageous inquiry into the constitutional errors that have allowed a judicial oligarchy to rule over us. My new book The Supremacists: The Tyranny of Judges and How to Stop It refutes the falsehood that "the Constitution is whatever the Supreme Court says it is" and tells Americans how to stop judicial tyranny.
