Reply #30: Article III, Section 2 of the US Constitution does give Congress [View All]

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the authority to remove cases from the Supreme Court's jurisdiction.

"In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make."

It has been used before. Right after the Civil War and just last Sept.

"Then, on Sept. 23, the House did something extraordinary. Rather than take a chance that the Supreme Court would get the case again and ban "under God" from the Pledge, it voted 247-173 to use the authority given to it under Article III of the Constitution to eliminate the case from the appellate jurisdiction of the federal courts."