The United States Supreme Court has denied a hearing in Galluzzo V Champaign County ending what
has been a five year run thru the federal court system in an effort to have
No case has ever pushed this issue this far and Mike, Chuck and Dennis need to be congratulated for their stellar effort in trying to put an end to years of abuse and unequal treatment of fit parents by the family court system.
The denial of this case for hearing slaps at 85 years of USSC rulings on the rights of parents and a two hundred year tradition of handling the difficult issues as top out rights. This denial clearly sends a message to all that the courts do not give a damn about equal rights. It leaves me to wonder where we would be on issues such as equal but separate education had the issue been brought to this court. Where would we be on the issue of cruel and unusual punishment had the issue of the death penalty been brought to this court?
Fact is this court whimped out and said we do not want to tackle a difficult issue. They took the easy route and said we just will not hear this issue.
Placing the facts before the court that no resolution, other than a decision by the HIGH COURT, did not matter to them. We showed them plainly that the state court doesn't care about equal rights. The state legislature will not tackle the issue to protect the equal rights on its citizens. Local courts certainly do not care.
As Spence pointed out, the
purpose of the Supreme Court plainly isn't to render justice in individual
cases, but is to resolve disputed important and often fine points of law. The equal right of every fit parent is not
a finer point of law? The right to due process under the law is not a finer
point of law?
The High Court has failed every citizen of this country.
I, for one, will not back off on this issue and will continue this fight one way or another. I started my association with PACE as father speaking out to Justice Pfeiffer about his comments in Don Hubin's case about fathers and shared parenting. It may be time for a strong letter to Justice Roberts and the rest of the USSC telling them that is it time to get off their a** and make the tough calls that they have been appointed to make.
It is time for the revolution to start before our rights as citizens are crippled any more by the special interest groups are eroded to nothing. Oh wait, I forgot, our rights already are.
