[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 11753-11754]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                        LIBERAL COURTS ERR AGAIN

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, our liberal friends in the Federal courts 
have erred again. The 14th amendment says that no State, and I quote, 
``shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due 
process of law.'' Yet late last year the Supreme Court ruled that this 
guaranteed doctors the right to impale partially-born babies in the 
skull with scissors and extract them dead from their mother's birth 
canals.
  The first amendment says America cannot have an official State 
church, like England has, and I quote, ``Congress shall make no law 
respecting an establishment of religion.'' Yet a Federal judge in my 
district has recently ruled that the Ten Commandments have to be taken 
down from the county courthouse wall where they have stood for 82 
years.
  The first amendment says, ``Congress shall make no law prohibiting 
the free exercise of religion.'' Yet, despite this, the 9th Circuit 
court ruled yesterday

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that in school children are not allowed to recite the Pledge of 
Allegiance any more, even though they have been doing it since 1892.
  Mr. Speaker, the judicial branch of government is out of control. 
They are making a mockery of our Constitution. The Congress and the 
President must stand up to the radical activist judges and make things 
right again.

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