Gingrich: Send U.S. Marshals To Arrest Activist Judges? Not Really!

The details of this piece do not support the headline. This is sensationalism at its best. Escorting judges to Congress to force judges to testify is not the same as arresting them. Judges today are making more damaging laws than Congress does and are reshaping our society in a way that favors the far left. Something has to be done to stop the liberal hogwash that is coming from the bench and they should be held accountable for their usurpation of Congressional authority.

Excerpt: Former House speaker Newt Gingrich showed no sign Sunday of letting up on his assault on “activist” federal judges. During an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Gingrich suggested the president could send federal law enforcement authorities to arrest judges who make controversial rulings in order to compel them to justify their decisions before congressional hearings.

When asked by host Bob Schieffer how he would force federal judges to comply with congressional subpoenas, Gingrich said he would send the U.S. Capitol Police or U.S. Marshals to arrest the judges and force them to testify.

Gingrich, who in recent weeks has surged to the front of the pack in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has come under fire from the left and the right for his attacks on the federal judiciary. Michael Mukasey, former attorney general during the George W. Bush administration, said some of Gingrich’s proposals were “dangerous, ridiculous, totally irresponsible, outrageous, off-the-wall and would reduce the entire judicial system to a spectacle.”

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