[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 71 (Monday, May 23, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H3323]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          SUPREME COURT ORDERS RELEASE OF CALIFORNIA PRISONERS

  (Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Mr. Speaker, today the United 
States Supreme Court delivered a body blow to the safety of the people 
of my home State of California.
  Today, in an unprecedented action of judicial intemperance, the 
United States Supreme Court basically ordered that between 38,000 and 
46,000 prisoners currently in the California prison system be released.
  Many times Supreme Court decisions are of mere academic interest. 
This one specifically deals with the safety of the people of my home 
State. As one who led a team of attorneys general of the States of the 
Nation in the nineties to have prison litigation reform which was 
incorporated into a law that was passed by the Congress and signed by 
the President, this flies in the face of every piece of that bill.
  You rarely say this, but I fear that there will be murders, there 
will be rapes, there will be assaults, there will be unnamed and 
unnumbered crimes in my home State as a direct result of today's 
decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. Since when did they take over all 
of the three branches of government, becoming the executive branch, the 
legislative branch, and the judicial branch?

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