What set America apart from the rest of the world was its commitment to the rule of law and the will of the people.

Notice the use of the past tense.

It is simply no longer true that America has a commitment to governance through the rule of law and the will of the people.

The law is twisted and distorted to mean whatever judicial tyrants and their cheerleading elitist activists say it means. And the clear expressions of the will of the people are subverted and undermined again and again by the same band of courtroom brown shirts.

I don't think I am overstating the case. I'm just wondering why so few others even seem to observe and recognize what I am seeing on a daily basis.

Take, for example, Arizona's Proposition 200, approved by voters in that state by a comfortable margin of nearly 60 percent. Voters had placed the proposition on the ballot because of their outrage that federal immigration laws were being ignored, permitting their state to be overrun by illegal aliens, and because they felt powerless to keep Arizona from being destroyed fiscally and culturally as a result.

Quite simply, the proposition would deny most taxpayer benefits to illegal aliens and require state workers to report applicants for such benefits who may not be eligible. It would require anyone registering to vote in the state to show proof of citizenship and bring a government-issued ID to the polling place.

To most Americans, such provisions are common sense. That's why they pass easily wherever such initiatives get on the ballot – even in California.

But it simply doesn't matter any more in America what the people want. The people want real immigration policy. They want real immigration enforcement. They want real borders. They want citizenship to mean something again.

However, the brown shirts of the bench have other ideas. They don't think Americans are smart enough to know what's really good for them. So they use the courts to stifle the will of the people and pervert the law of the land. Now the laws are written not by citizen-legislators, but by high priests in black robes who have little or no accountability to the people.

So, once again, in Arizona, a U.S. federal judge, David Bury, granted the activist lynch mob a temporary restraining order that keeps Gov. Janet Napolitano from signing Proposition 200 into law.

The thugs at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund explained why they brought the challenge: "Proposition 200 is an illegal, impermissible, unconstitutional state attempt to regulate immigration policy, which is a fundamental function and responsibility of our federal government. Proposition 200 is mean-spirited and un-American."

Is it mean-spirited and un-American to use our electoral system to affect policy? Or is it mean-spirited and un-American to impose your tyrannical will on the majority through a judicial oligarchy out of touch with the people?

MALDEF and their ilk are intellectually dishonest when they say they object to Proposition 200 because it is treading on federal responsibility. If anyone in the federal government offered up a similar solution, these bums would find other excuses to oppose it.

They don't like Proposition 200 because it targets their constituency – illegal aliens. MALDEF is little more than an illegal-alien lobby group. Its membership welcomes voter fraud. They welcome welfare fraud. They welcome a weaker America that won't stand up to defend itself and its people from an invasion.

I've seen this happen again and again in America in the last 25 years. Popular initiatives approved overwhelmingly by the people only to be overruled by a high priest or priestess in a black robe.

This is not the way a free republic is supposed to work. This is not the way a government of the people, by the people and for the people is supposed to work. This is not the way representative, constitutional government is supposed to work.

Let the people of Arizona and the federal high priests of the bench know: All of America is watching how this issue is resolved.