I've been wondering what the Repubs are going try next with regards to court stripping and religious language and then I remembered an old chesnut from last year that seems to be coming back from the dead.

Check out S. 520, "Constitution Restoration Act of 2005". It is one of the most truly aweful court stripping bills I have ever seen. It came around briefly in March '05 but disappeared since.

It would strip ALL the federal courts of the ability to hear anything involving the government's acknowledgment that God is the sovereign source of law. With all these religious court stripping bills coming up I figured I would check on Thomas and see what the status on the bill was. Because this is in my opinion the big daddy of them all

Here is the bill and who re-introduced it after the flip.....

It's a war that has been long in the making, a war fought by the most extreme elements of the religious right to radically alter the shape of our government and the very nature of our democracy and it's attendant civil liberties. And at the moment, they are well on their way to winning it.

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