[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 24379]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           THE SUPREME COURT

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the order of the House of 
January 4, 2005, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gohmert) is recognized 
during morning hour debates for 1 minute.
  Mr. GOHMERT. ``The Supreme Court has improperly set itself up as a 
third house of Congress, reading into the Constitution words and 
implications which are not there and which were never intended to be 
there. We have, therefore, reached the point as a Nation when we must 
take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from 
itself. We must find a way to take an appeal from the Supreme Court to 
the Constitution itself. We want a Supreme Court which will do justice 
under the Constitution and not over it.''
  The preceding words were a quote from President Franklin D. Roosevelt 
in 1937. He reformed the Court by appointing eight out of nine 
justices.
  Today, the Supreme Court must have at least one more judge who can 
read the Constitution without visual hallucinations. It sounds like 
Judge Alito is such a judge. Without five constitutionally literate 
justices, the Supreme Court's traditional pronouncement as it enters 
the courtroom should be changed to that of a confused bailiff in east 
Texas while flustered who once announced a judge's entrance by 
proclaiming: ``God save us from this honorable court.''

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