And no, I do not mean America is at war necessarily only with Iraq either.... Here, Chuck Missler says it best in this article:   {please, please pray for America & for the next Supreme Court Judge!!}  ..... "if My people, which are called by My name, will humble themselves  and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."   2 Chronicles 7:14BATTLING FOR THE SWING VOTE

Politicians, press, and pressure groups alike have been anticipating the resignation of Chief Justice William Rehnquist – who suffers from thyroid cancer. However it was Justice Sandra Day O'Connor who stirred up Washington on Friday by announcing her resignation from the Supreme Court. Justice O’Connor is a "swing voter" – a moderate whose vote has tipped the scales in many close decisions in recent years.

Last year Forbes magazine called O'Connor the sixth most powerful woman in the world. She was the first woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court and has cast the deciding vote in various 5-4 cases on controversial subjects such as abortion, affirmative action, and the death penalty. Rehnquist's resignation and subsequent replacement by a like-minded conservative judge would have little effect on the status quo. Replacing O'Connor with a more conservative judge, however, could dramatically change the balance of power in the Supreme Court. Her replacement will help determine the courts opinion on abortion, gay rights, assisted suicide, and the death penalty (all of these issues are scheduled to come before the high court during the next session).

The government established by our Founding Fathers included the provision of "separation of powers" between the various branches to provide a balance of power. Regrettably, the original checks and balances have been set aside in recent times. One branch - the Judiciary - has dominated the other two.

The Founders' desire was rooted in Jeremiah 17:9: "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it?" This passage encapsulated what Puritans, Calvinists, and others termed the "depravity of man"; that is, the unrestrained heart of man moves toward moral and civil degradation. Society, therefore, would be much safer if all power did not repose in the same authority. Today the Founders' clear Constitutional design has been ignored. The Supreme Court is no longer simply one branch among three. It is now, literally, the "supreme" branch. Far too many of our current policies on criminal justice, education, morality, etc., are not the result of legislative action but rather of judicial decrees.

Over the course of the last forty years there has been a radical shift in the role of the American judicial system, as a result of which our religious freedoms are being stripped away. Those who were appointed to interpret the law and secure justice for the American people have abused their power in order to manipulate public policy. The foundation of faith laid by the champions of the early republic has begun to erode, a foundation built on the existence an almighty and loving Creator.

Without regard for the clear intent of the law, an unbridled judiciary has twisted and contorted the principles upon which our nation was founded to better fit their own agendas and ideologies. Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and the third President of the United States, anticipated such an abuse of power when he wrote "...to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy... The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal... knowing that to whatever hands confided, with corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots."

As one part of the United States shoves away from America's Judeo-Christian moral foundation, and the other part tenaciously clings to traditional family values, the nation will become even more heatedly divided. Five Supreme Court justices have more power, in many ways, than all the members of Congress combined. Whoever is chosen to replace Justice O’Connor will have undue influence on the future course of our nation.

"The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please." - Thomas Jefferson
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