One can not accept
judicial supremacy
without accepting the
duty to accept, enforce, and embrace Dred Scott or any other
judicial atrocity the Supreme Court might inflict on the Constitution and on the nation whose Constitution it is.
A disciplinary hearing was scheduled on the basis that the name change order violated Tennessee's Code of
Judicial Conduct: no laws exist banning the use of religious names, and judges are required to perform their
duties without regard to religious bias.
When this court reverses the judgment, they overrule both the legislative and
judicial authority of the state,
without regard to the character or standing, political or
judicial, of the individual members of either department; surely, then, it is our most solemn
duty, not to found our judgment on the opinions of those who assume to decide on the validity of state laws,
without any official power, sanction or responsibility.