New Dominionist Bill Limits the Supreme Court's Jurisdiction
The Constitution Restoration Act of 2004
The Yurica Report - http://www.yuricareport.com/
February 19, 2004
We wrote about it before it happened, we called them by their own name, Dominionists, and we told you that Dominionists
in Congress were about to fire their first guns for reformation of the American government.
On January 6, 2004, the Yurica Report published “America Stands on the Edge of a Grave Constitutional Crisis Linked to Pat Robertson.” In that article we reported that televangelist Pat Robertson devised a number of ways of limiting the power of the
U.S. Supreme Court and the federal courts of America. To quote from the article, Robertson said as early as March 24,
1986, “Congress could say, ‘There’s a whole class of cases you can’t hear’ and there’s nobody can do anything about it!”
On February 11, 2004, we published “The Despoiling of America” by Katherine Yurica. To quote Robertson from this article, “God’s plan is for His people, ladies and gentlemen to take
dominion…to reign and rule…There’ll be a reformation….We are not going to stand for those coercive utopians in the
Supreme Court and in Washington ruling over us any more. We’re not gonna stand for it. We are going to say, ‘We want
freedom in this country, and we want power…’”
Both these articles reported a crisis in our government and revealed the plan of the far right Dominionists who control
Congress to reconstruct our constitution and “restore” it to subservience to a theocratic religion under God and under
biblical law. It is the first step in a series of steps to take over and control the government of the United States of
America as outlined in “The Despoiling of America.”
Today the Yurica Report learned that on February 11 , 2004 Dominionist leaders in congress made their move; they
introduced a bill in both houses called The Constitution Restoration Act of 2004. Among the sponsors of the bill are Rep. Robert Aderholt (Alabama), Rep. Michael Pence (Indiana), Sen. Richard Shelby
of Alabama, Sen. Zell Miller (Georgia), Sen. Sam Brownback (Kansas), and Sen. Lindsey Graham (South Carolina).
The House version is H.R. 3799 and the Senate version is S. 2082. The bill limits the U.S. Supreme Court and federal
courts to hear cases involving “expressions of religious faith by elected or appointed officials.”
Although the claim by its sponsors appears to be that the intention is to prevent the courts from hearing cases involving the Ten Commandments or a
Nativity Scene in a public setting from being reviewed, the law is drawn broadly and expressly includes the
acknowledgment of God as the sovereign source of law by an official in his capacity of executing his office. John Giles,
Alabama President of Christian Coalition said, "The greatest unbridled abuse by the federal judiciary for over forty
years has been in the area of redefining the acknowledgement of God as the sovereign source of law...We define this as
judicial activism, making law from the bench. These unconstitutional rulings have gone unchecked by other branches of
government."
The following proposed law will be added to Sec. 1260 of Title 28, Chapter 81 of the U.S. Code:
“Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the Supreme Court shall not have jurisdiction to review, by
appeal, writ of certiorari, or otherwise, any matter to the extent that relief is sought against an element of Federal,
State, or local government, or against an officer of Federal, State, or local government (whether or not acting in
official personal capacity), by reason of that element’s or officer’s acknowledgment of God as the sovereign source of
law, liberty, or government.”
Because the judiciary is “an element” of the federal, state and local governments, this wording, if it becomes law, may
allow any judge to institute biblical punishments without being subject to review by the Supreme Court or the federal
court system.
In addition the proposed bill punishes sitting judges by requiring impeachment and removal, if they rely on decisions
from another state or jurisdiction, such as another state’s constitution, law, administrative rule or judicial decision.
The proposed Section 201, “Interpretation of the Constitution” reads:
“In interpreting and applying the Constitution of the United States, a court of the United States may not rely upon any
constitution, law, administrative rule, Executive order, directive, policy, judicial decision, or any other action of
any foreign state or international organization or agency, other than the constitutional law and English common law.”
Because the term “foreign” is a term of art in the law and can refer to another jurisdiction within the United States,
like another state or another county, the proposed law is troubling. One news talk show host in favor of the bill claims that the section is aimed directly at Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O’Conner and
Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
So important is the passage of this bill to Dominionists one of their activists said, “The passage of this bill should
be regarded as the most important item on the conservative agenda this year! It is…more important than who wins the
White House this November.”
In light of the reports we have published, every Senator and Congressman and all Americans should be informed of the
pending Dominionist reformation of our judiciary and through it, our entire American democracy.
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Katherine Yurica was educated at East Los Angeles College, U.S.C. and the USC school of law. She worked as a consultant for Los Angeles
County and as a news correspondent for Christianity Today plus as a freelance investigative reporter. She is the author
of three books. She is also the publisher of the Yurica Report.