Letter: Control of Supreme Court could lead to a dictatorship

If any two of those can get together, they can control the other. Well, it's not likely the Supreme Court and Congress are going to make a dictator because there are plenty of both of them.

It's not likely that the president is going to be able to control the Congress too well and become a dictatorship. But, if he can get control of five men! In order to become a dictator in the United States, you only have to control five men. He can then tell them what he wants and what he doesn't want.

He can have them declare any law that he doesn't like unconstitutional, because it's purely a matter of opinion, judicial opinion. Then the Congress is totally hamstrung. They are absolutely ineffective because they cannot pass one single law against him. The Supreme Court will throw it out as unconstitutional. He can declare any law unconstitutional he doesn't like, so that they can't do anything unless they pass laws to suit him. There have been several men who have had that kind of majority to work with, but they were benign presidents. They were good men who were trying to do the country good and they weren't trying to be a dictator.

But there have been two men in American history, both of whom wanted to be dictators and they wanted to get control of the country, and they did it the same way.

If any leader of any country has enough power, all he has to do is even have that law about the limit on the terms of the presidency brought before the Supreme Court for consideration and have it cast out as unconstitutional. I mean there are all kinds of ways, gimmicks, you can work through. But it looks very, very bad.

He's got to really get control of America, the American government, and the American people. So, our dear friend, The president, is going to try to solve his problems in his own backyard.

Is he going to be able to solve them or not? What do you think? I have the feeling that it was sort of going to his head. A ruler and leader gets a little puffed up in his head and begins to think he's really a god. God won't stand for it.

Ted Rudow III

Menlo Park