Court: Sharia Law Can't be Banned

Bad Judges 10th Circuit: Amendment Banning Sharia Law is Not OK

“ Sometimes voters get behind an idea, and we think to ourselves, why? Why are they even bothering when that idea, were it to become law, would be struck down as unconstitutional faster than we can utter “temporary restraining order?” We smugly revisited that thought on Tuesday upon hearing that the Denver-based 10th Circuit had upheld a lower-court ruling keeping an amendment to the Oklahoma constitution from becoming law. The amendment, overwhelmingly approved by Oklahoma voters last year, prevents judges from basing rulings on international law — and specifically mentions Islamic law, often known as Shariah law. Specifically, the 10th Circuit upheld a lower court’s decision to preliminarily enjoin the amendment from going into effect. It ruled that there is a legitimate issue as to whether the initiative violates the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause [Full 10th Circuit: Amendment Banning Sharia Law is Not OK] Why do we have legislatures when, in the final analysis,  a judge can undo their produce with a pen stoke.  I am not the first to propose, nor is it even my first time doing so, that the United States is ruled by a judicial oligarchy.  I am quite certain that a current Tom Jefferson instruction would be "kill everybody and begin you anewith."  John Wayne would,  for sure. ”