Kritarchy: The End Stage Of Liberal Democracy—Unless We Start Impeaching Judges

Article author: 
James Kirkpatrick
Article publisher: 
VDare
Article date: 
5 October 2019
Article category: 
Our American Future
Medium
Article Body: 

Liberal democracy isn’t “in crisis,” as journalists and academics keep saying, it’s already over. In the U.S.... Affirmative Action, and other issues are now made by judges, a system known as “kritarchy.” In the U.K., the British Supreme Court has usurped the monarchy as the font of law in a decision blatantly intended to prevent Brexit. Across Europe, judges simply overrule elected officials and formulate immigration policies....

Many Americans thought they were getting real change when they elected Donald Trump president on a platform of immigration restriction....

Yet it almost didn’t matter. Judges have continuously overruled his policy decisions, seemingly out of spite....

The government’s “compelling interest” in achieving diversity has already been established by the Supreme Court. Programs, policies, and trainings to achieve “diversity” are now staples of American life. “Diversity” dominates our discourse. Yet there is nothing in our Constitution that mandates this–courts simply asserted it, and the political and academic systems obeyed....

Judges have imposed other sweeping changes on our way of life. In 1994, California voters approved Proposition 187, which would have massively reduced (if not eliminated) illegal immigration into the once Golden State by eliminating taxpayer subsidies. A District Judge, Mariana Pfaelzer, threw out the law on the grounds that California was enacting its own immigration policy, a power that properly belongs to the federal government. Governor Gray Davis, directly working with the Mexican government, abandoned the appeal.  Since then, California has been dramatically transformed into what is essentially a Third World state....

In August, a judge ruled that “international law” requires Italy to accept hundreds of migrants. In Denmark, a judge mandated family reunification in some immigration cases, undermining the center-left government’s ability to control immigration ...

It’s becoming clear that popular sovereignty is a myth and we are ruled by an elite as impenetrable as that any that presided over the Holy Roman Empire...

... it’s about time Republicans at the federal and state levels start impeaching some judges.

 
If they don’t, then we should frankly admit the Constitution has failed—because one branch of government has achieved supremacy above all others....