1.
This Act may be cited as the
Constitution Restoration Act of
2005
.
<enum>I</enum>
<header>Jurisdiction</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF11B7590B16A4AAABC6100D1278D2019" section-type="subsequent-section">
<enum>101.</enum>
<header>Appellate jurisdiction</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H00CA1846B1E14D248823B4FB002477EE">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Amendment to title <enum-in-header>28</enum-in-header></header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 81 of title 28,
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H978E3ABF552F4D420030F1B9BCBDB66" style="USC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6549B5D9320C4E9F0077A72E4B890998" section-type="subsequent-section">
<enum>1260.</enum>
<header>Matters not reviewable</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other
provision of this chapter, the Supreme Court shall not have jurisdiction to
review, by appeal, writ of certiorari, or otherwise, any matter to the extent
that relief is sought against an entity of Federal, State, or local government,
or against an officer or agent of Federal, State, or local government (whether
or not acting in official or personal capacity), concerning that entity’s,
officer’s, or agent’s acknowledgment of God as the sovereign source of law,
liberty, or government.</text>
</section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2BD88B53C06F4DBAB93EFCD325490087">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Table of sections</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of sections at the
beginning of chapter 81 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding
at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H226E5BA226744F27BEBB0627002E1129" style="USC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">1260. Matters not
reviewable.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCD493E3DAF4747A0961D50F79D4C9C2" section-type="subsequent-section">
<enum>102.</enum>
<header>Limitations on jurisdiction</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H465C35A06EA240DCBE15E71C754667D">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Amendment to title <enum-in-header>28</enum-in-header></header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 85 of title 28,
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end of the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H61081D97BD4347ABB898DD9B026DD8A4" style="USC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4C4D487CA6584ADFBADAE557550ABC9" section-type="subsequent-section">
<enum>1370.</enum>
<header>Matters that the Supreme Court lacks jurisdiction to
review</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, the district courts shall not have jurisdiction of a matter
if the Supreme Court does not have jurisdiction to review that matter by reason
of section 1260 of this title.</text>
</section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA30D317232C446D8A121AA6621AADEAA">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Table of sections</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of sections at the
beginning of chapter 85 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding
at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0D94E0D0C4814F95A83B868F66D97C11" style="USC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">1370. Matters that the Supreme
Court lacks jurisdiction to
review.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section>
<enum>II</enum>
<header>Interpretation</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCB54D188D0BB4F9BB608FB16F57D0BD" section-type="subsequent-section">
<enum>201.</enum>
<header>Interpretation of the Constitution</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">In interpreting and applying
the Constitution of the United States, a court of the United States may not
rely upon any constitution, law, administrative rule, Executive order,
directive, policy, judicial decision, or any other action of any foreign state
or international organization or agency, other than English constitutional and
common law up to the time of the adoption of the Constitution of the United
States.</text>
</section>
<enum>III</enum>
<header>Enforcement</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H933DE6BDA4A74C6A9283055C6D23EA26" section-type="subsequent-section">
<enum>301.</enum>
<header>Extrajurisdictional cases not binding on States</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">Any decision of a Federal
court which has been made prior to, on, or after the effective date of this
Act, to the extent that the decision relates to an issue removed from Federal
jurisdiction under section 1260 or 1370 of title 28, United States Code, as
added by this Act, is not binding precedent on any State court.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7B998A0E292746989135072D31004E80" section-type="subsequent-section">
<enum>302.</enum>
<header>Impeachment, conviction, and removal of judges for certain
extrajurisdictional activities</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">To the extent that a justice
of the Supreme Court of the United States or any judge of any Federal court
engages in any activity that exceeds the jurisdiction of the court of that
justice or judge, as the case may be, by reason of section 1260 or 1370 of
title 28, United States Code, as added by this Act, engaging in that activity
shall be deemed to constitute the commission of—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEC85B44A8B3B410CA4A81EBE68FEA5BE">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an offense for which the
judge may be removed upon impeachment and conviction; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H53A9821BE4EE4092A046EF2D5BBB56E">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a breach of the standard of
good behavior required by article III, section 1 of the Constitution.</text>
</paragraph></section>