Last week, Kentucky Republican Congressman Ron Lewis introduced House bill HR 3920, “The Congressional Accountability for Judicial Activism Act of 2004,” which proposes to “let Congress, by a two-thirds vote of each house, override any Supreme Court decision that presumes to review the constitutionality of an act of Congress.” Lewis’ asinine proposal is apparently a response to “the shenanigans of ‘activist judges,’ such as those on Massachusetts’ Supreme Court—who recently ruled that it’s discriminatory to prohibit gay marriages.” The audacity of trying to change one of the basic tenets of the Constitution, that the three branches of government have equal power to check and balance one another, just boggles my mind. I sincerely hope that everyone realizes what a crock of shit this is, and that it’s just a ploy to get Lewis’ name in print (it worked, didn’t it?), because no one can be that stupid, can they? Maybe I shouldn’t ask…
