The Empire's Umpires...trampling liberty since the 1865 collapse of the Constitution

"... the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what are not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch." --Thomas Jefferson
"The history of the [Supreme] Court...is proof that Jefferson was right and Alexander Hamilton wrong in his Federalist Paper No. 78 prediction that the judiciary would be the 'least dangerous' branch of government."  --Walter Williams, Syndicated columnist 12/17/03