The Republican leadership, furious that courts are – shock! – upholding minority rights, are now planning to strip them of jurisdiction in such cases. That’s now the DeLay strategy:
Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) told reporters yesterday that he plans to use “jurisdiction stripping” measures to achieve other social policy goals as well. For example, he will push legislation to stop federal courts from hearing lawsuits related to the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance.
The GOP also wants to use their plantation in DC as an experiment, dictating that the district cannot recognize marriages from elsewhere, if they are between gay citizens. And this is the party that trumpets that the voters should decide. Not in DC.
The Dish 