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steve sullivan wrote:

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

March 9, 2004


Mr. Lewis of Kentucky (for himself, Mr. DeMint, Mr. Everett, Mr. Pombo,
Mr. Coble, Mr. Collins, Mr. Goode, Mr. Pitts, Mr. Franks of Arizona, Mr.
Hefley, Mr. Doolittle, and Mr. Kingston) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to
the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall
within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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A BILL

To allow Congress to reverse the judgments of the United States Supreme
Court.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ³Congressional Accountability for Judicial
Activism Act of 2004².

SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL REVERSAL OF SUPREME COURT JUDGMENTS.

The Congress may, if two thirds of each House agree, reverse a judgment
of the United States Supreme Court‹

(1) if that judgment is handed down after the date of the enactment of
this Act; and

(2) to the extent that judgment concerns the constitutionality of an Act
of Congress.

SEC. 3. PROCEDURE.

The procedure for reversing a judgment under section 2 shall be, as near
as may be and consistent with the authority of each House of Congress to
adopt its own rules of proceeding, the same as that used for considering
whether or not to override a veto of legislation by the President.

SEC. 4. BASIS FOR ENACTMENT.

This Act is enacted pursuant to the power of Congress under article III,
section 2, of the Constitution of the United States.

Article III, section 2 gives Congress the power to decide whether the
Supreme Court will have original or appellate jurisdiction in particular
kinds of cases. It does not give Congress the power to take a case out
of the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court altogether.

I thought the reports of this crackpot bill had to be a hoax designed to
defame the Republican Party in an election year, but I looked it up on
Thomas (thomas.loc.gov), and it is real: HR3920.