Since the earliest days of the Republic, special interest groups have been working schemes to get their pet projects enacted into law.  Their efforts gave rise to an ever-growing lobbying industry which now lubricates various government functions with buckets of cash.

It's common knowledge that special interest groups spend billions of dollars lobbying Congress and the Executive branch.  However, that approach doesn't always work; sometimes a special interest group wants legislative action that's fiercely opposed by a potent minority, or even a majority, of the voters.  In such cases, the only promising course of action is to lobby the courts.  Judges enjoy a high degree of immunity from the control of "We the People."

Courts have no legitimate power under our Constitution to pass laws.  They're only allowed to decide "cases and controversies" in accordance with laws already in place.  However, courts are the province of lawyers.  A well known (but fictional) organized crime figure once observed,

"a lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns."

Special interest groups realized early on that they needed to lobby judges as well as congressmen and executive branch officials.  In America's free economy an industry springs up to capitalize on every need, so a judicial usurpation industry has evolved to lubricate our judicial branch of government.  Its main business is persuading judges to embrace fraudulent constitutional amendments.  It also uses more conventional lobbying techniques to prevent corrective action by Congress; and it employs powerful propaganda techniques to confuse the public about what's really going on.  Those techniques are described in another essay [2].

Given enough time, any form of organized high-level corruption will eventually create intolerable excess.  After two centuries of lawyers tricks at the highest reaches of our national government, the judicial usurpation industry has created a monster; it's created "judicial supremacy."  The "Republican Form of Government" promised by your Constitution is as dead as the dodo bird.  You live under a tyrannical "Form of Government," imposed by our unelected, unaccountable judiciary.  In defiance of the first sentence in the Constitution, it legislates at will.  In defiance of Article V, it amends the Constitution at will.  You only think you get to elect the people who rule you.  You are being had.

INFALLIBLE AND SUPREME

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; . . .

Perhaps you saw the 1968 movie; 2001, A Space Odyssey.  Even if you aren't old enough to have seen it in 1968, it's probably still available on videotape or DVD. The movie, a science fiction classic, had three parts, perhaps the most interesting being the middle part which described the beginning of a manned mission to Jupiter.  Such an ambitious mission might seem ridiculous now, but in 1968 it seemed like a reasonable extension of the remarkable progress America's space program was then making [4].

The spacecraft was controlled by a crew of several astronauts and Hal 9000, a very smart computer the scientists had created to help and serve the crew.  In response to a question from a BBC reporter, Hal boasted that he (it) was practically "foolproof and incapable of error."

As I recall, the planned Jupiter mission required eighteen months for completion.  After a few weeks a fairly serious fault turned up in one of Hal's logic modules, and a profound difference of opinion arose over how best to diagnose and repair it.  The human crew favored one approach, and Hal favored another.  Since he (it) was "incapable of error," Hal thought it best that he take complete control, and he (it) began murdering the astronauts by cutting off their life support systems.  One-hundred years after "We the People" ratified the 14th Amendment, which the Supreme Court 'perverted' five years later to protect and promote abortion, the movie depicted Hal aborting his human masters.  In the first abortion Hal used a robotic claw-arm to cut the umbilical cord (air hose) of Frank, an astronaut working outside the vehicle.  He (it) used similar means to abort the others [5].

Hal managed to abort all the human crewmen except one.  Dave Bowman survived long enough to pull the plug connecting Hal to his power supply.  Dave subsequently piloted the spacecraft to Jupiter unassisted, but he didn't get back home.  If you want to find out how the movie ends shop around for a copy.

"We the People" created a judicial branch of government to serve us and implement "our" laws; but it's gone berserk.  Instead of serving us and implementing "our" laws it makes up its own laws and orders that we implement them and serve it.  Like Hal 9000 aborting its human masters, our judicial branch of government is aborting our children, at least 40 million since the fictional Hal aborted a handful of astronauts.  Isn't it time to disconnect this monster from its power supply [6]?

THE GRAND INQUISITOR

Our judicial branch of government has long acted in open defiance of the Constitution from whence it derives its authority.  So far, it's escaped punitive action; the people have been taken in by its various deceptions and those employed by the judicial usurpation industry in its behalf.  However, once in a while somebody reads the Constitution or learns a bit about the history of its making.  Our original Constitution and records concerning its birth pose potential threats to our judicial branch of government.  "We the People" might someday catch on to its pattern of racketeering activity.   Then there's no telling what we're liable to do [7].

An episode in Dostoyevsky's classic novel, The Brothers Karamazov, offers an anology to this situation.  An older brother, Ivan, tells his younger sibling, Alyosha, about a story he has written; it's entitled "The Grand Inquisitor."  The story is set in the era of the Spanish Inquisition during which Spain's ecclesiastical princes burned "heretics" at the stake for "the glory of God."

In Ivan's story, Jesus Christ one day returned and visited the Spanish city of Seville.  All those who encountered him knew it was he, and the word spread.  That got the attention of those in power, the bishops and cardinals of his Church.  They reacted by throwing him in jail.  Christ's highest ranking apostle in Seville, the "Grand Inquisitor," came to visit him there [8].

The old man scolded Jesus Christ for coming back to interfere with the work of his Church.  He said that the Inquisition had greatly improved on his message and didn't need its author coming around to confuse the people.  So, regrettably, they would have to burn him at the stake.

Think of our Constitution as analogous to the New Testament.  The U. S. Supreme Court is analogous to to the Grand Inquisitor.  Our judicial usurpation industry is analogous to the fifteenth century Spanish Church.

So far our judicial employees haven't burned the Constitution at the stake.  They've just told us that it's become extinct because it was 'unfit;' it's evolved into a room full of books containing two centuries of lawyers' tricks.  If the public ever stops buying that cock-and-bull story, America will have an historic political crisis.  We'll either have to discipline our faithless judicial employees or give up the illusion that we live under a Constitution.  The judicial usurpation industry will never allow that to happen; it will go around collecting copies of the Constitution in order to to burn them.
 

NOTES & CITATIONS

1.  The quotation concerning lawyers is by the fictional Don Corleone in Mario Puzo's The Godfather.

2.  See the online essay Politically Correct Ways to Lobby Judges.

3.  See the on line essay, Our Evolving Constitution.   See also the web site Trapped in the Temple of Karnak: An Unexpurgated History of the Supreme Court.

4.  The third part described the conclusion of the Jupiter mission as experienced by a single surviving astronaut.

5.  In September of 1859, Abe Lincoln suggested what he thought should be done about a renegade Supreme Court. "The people of these United States are the rightful masters of both congresses and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who would pervert the Constitution." So the Court was already 'perverting' the Constitution way back then.  See End Note 6 in the online essay, A Scam is Born.

6.  See the on line essay Harry's Abortion.   See also the web site Trapped in the Temple of Karnak: An Unexpurgated History of the Supreme Court.

7.  See the online essays A Pattern of Racketeering Activity and Our Supreme Judiciary Department.  See also the web site Trapped in the Temple of Karnak: An Unexpurgated History of the Supreme Court.

8.  My copy of The Brothers Karamazov is the "Signet Classic" version copyrighted by Manuel Komroff and published by The New American library in 1957. "The Grand Inquisitor" begins on Page 227. Numerous other editions, by different publishers, contain essentially the same early twentieth century translation by Constance Garnett.