A Pro-life Manifesto: Part III
Preborn Citizens’ Rights Can be Guaranteed by a Constitutional Provision:
In Parts I and II of A Pro-life Manifesto, we saw why the success of the pro-life movement is critical to America’s future, reviewed past mistakes, and outlined a new beginning. Now let us focus on the additional steps we need to take.
William J. Quirk has thoroughly established that Congress has virtually complete power over the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and unlimited authority over the federal judiciary. Congress could, if it wished, completely abolish the latter by statute. (Courts and Congress: America’s Unwritten Constitution, Transaction Publishers, 2008.)
These powers reside in the language of Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution: “In all the other Cases (in which the Supreme Court does not have original jurisdiction; parenthesis added), the Supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.”
Harold
