Michael Farris on Limiting the Courts

Michael Ferris, president of the Home School Legal Defense Fund, has a crazy proposal to reign in those out of control judges. Here are his three ideas: eliminate binding precedent, create a 2/3 Congressional "veto" over court decisions, and to impeach judges based on a larger set of criteria. You can see him defend those ideas here.

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