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The U.S. Constitution, Article V, reads in part, “The Congress whenever two-thirds shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to the constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which in either case shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of several states, or by conventions in three-fourths thereof.”

There is no provision in the U.S. Constitution for changing (amending) the constitution. However, today’s liberal Democratic party seeks to “amend” the Constitution by judicial fiat, which our founding fathers feared, when writing our constitution and warned our young country against, as a result of laws by judicial fiat in the old country (England).

A prime example of a law “enacted” by judicial fiat was 1973’s Roe v. Wade decision, which became “law” without being passed by the House of the Senate. Although the word abortion is not mentioned anywhere in the U.S. Constitution, the 1970s out-of-control “liberal” U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in error, that the U.S. Constitution guaranteed women a constitutional right to unfettered abortion on demand.

Thankfully, the Supreme Court “revisited” the earlier court’s “bad” Roe decision and overturned it. The recent court Roe ruling did not outlaw abortions, in the U.S., as many Democrats would have us believe. It merely threw the abortion issue back to the individual states, where it should have been all along. Since Donald Trump was re-elected president, the Democrats have attempted to place unconstitutional restraints, through the judiciary (lower courts) on his presidential authority to conduct war, deport illegal immigrants, impose tariffs, etc. In short, to block his popular America-first agenda.

The only court mentioned in the U.S. Constitution is the Supreme Court. The U.S. Constitution, Article III, Section 1, reads, in brief, “The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme court and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.”

Thus, lower court (district) judges do not have the constitutional authority to put restraints on the president despite what the Democrats (and district judges) would have us believe.

Not only does Congress have the constitutional authority to create “inferior” courts, they have the constitutional authority to impeach and remove judges, abusing their office, and they should do so.

Steve Wolverton

Parkersburg