Judicial Activism to Enforce Global Warming Measures

Al Gore and the 'climate change czar' Carol Browner are warning that if Congress doesn't pass climate change regulations, the courts will step in to do it.

"All of the discussion has been about the president and the Congress," Gore told journalists at a U.N. press conference Tuesday. "We have a third branch of government: the courts."

"The courts are starting to take control of this issue. If they were to follow this out, they would be setting the standards," Browner told reporters at a separate briefing in New York Tuesday. "Obviously, that’s not something that anybody wants….Everything is moving towards getting legislation done because it is the best way to do it."

In other words, do it or we will sick the courts on you. We know what's best, not you.

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Court: The Government Can't Depend on God

Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate ruled that a 2006 state law that required the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security to stress "dependence on Almighty God as being vital to the security of the commonwealth" is unconstitutional, saying it violates the First Amendment's separation of church and state.

The judge says it is there to protect the minority from the oppression of the majority. But who will protect the majority from the tyranny of the minority -- or the judiciary?

At least the atheists are happy. Edwin Kagin, a Boone County lawyer and national legal director for American Atheists, said, "I think we can all feel a little safer now."

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