Former presidential candidate Alan Keyes is issuing a scathing attack on the nation's judges, saying their recent decisions could soon lead to the demise of the United States as we know it.
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"Our republic is dying before our eyes in this generation," Keyes told a South Dakota audience of 1,200 this week, according to the Rapid City Journal. "It's no doubt we could be living in the last days of the American republic."
Among the legal rulings the consitutional expert blasted with was the rejection by the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the Pledge of Allegiance case by a California atheist who filed his objection to the "under God" phrase on behalf of his daughter.
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"The Pledge decision was no decision at all," he said, according to the Journal, noting that by ruling Michael Newdow had no standing to sue on his daughter's behalf, the court was in effect "spitting on God's authority over the family."
Regarding the Massachusetts ruling favoring same-sex marriages, Keyes called it a "final assault on the fundamental institution of our lives." He suggested the commonwealth could no longer consider itself a republic form of government if state judges dictate to the legislature what laws should be.
Keyes stressed it's the people – not the courts – who are the final arbiters on the law.
As far as recourse, Keyes said the public can remove judges through impeachment for the high crime of "stealing your right to include God. Our founders didn't provide for judicial supremacy. That's not what they had in mind."
Except for the prospect of impeachment, Keyes offered little hope for the "sorry state of things" caused by a "wicked spirit loose in our world and in America."
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In addition to being a WorldNetDaily columnist, Keyes heads up RenewAmerica and the Declaration Foundation, organizations looking to preserve the founding principles of America.
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