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Opinion | Scott Brown

Gingrich off base on judiciary

By Scott Brown

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  January 04, 2012

GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich recently made disturbing comments regarding the judiciary. He has proposed that Congress should be able to take action against those judges whom he believes are legislating from the bench. If elected president, he would, among other things, abolish courts that displease him, ignore those Supreme Court decisions of which he does not approve, and order U.S. Marshals to arrest judges to force them to explain their decisions to Congress.

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