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]?

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.