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One Hundred and Fifteenth Congress
of the
United States of America
At the First Session
H. R. 1
An Act Entitled: The Supreme Court Jurisdiction Restriction Act of 2017
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January ____ 2017
Sponsor and cosponsor(s).
A BILL
To restrict the Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court on the issue of abortion.
Be it enacted by the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States of America in Congress
assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act me be cited as the “Restoration of Federalism Act of 2017”
SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSES
(a) Findings, -- Congress finds the following:
(1) The Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution stipulates that the enumeration in the
Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
(2) The Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution stipulates that the powers not delegated to
the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States
respectively, or to the people.
(3) The Ninth Amendment informs the federal government that it does not have unlimited power to
trample of the unalienable rights of the people of the States. Rights that include the people’s right to
form States and for the people of those States to govern themselves under their own State Constitutions.
(4) The Tenth Amendment protects a bedrock principle of federalism wherein the States and the
Federal Government govern in different spheres and have separate roles. The States are not agents of the
Federal Government.
(5) In 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States in violation of the Ninth and Tenth Amendment
infringed on the rights of the people to govern themselves under their particular State Constitution’s.
(6) In 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States infringed on the principles of federalism
elucidated in the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution by ruling that abortion was a
fundamental constitutional right thereby nullifying properly ratified State Constitutions and properly
passed State Statutes outlawing abortion in those States.
(7) In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court of the United States exceeded is limited authority under Article
III of the United States Constitution and in doing so usurped political authority from the people of the
fifty States enshrined by the Ninth and Tenth Amendments respectively.
(b) Purposes, -- The purposes of this Act are as follows:
(1) Congress will exercise its Article I of the United States Constitution delegated authority and its
inherent prerogatives to represent the people regarding the restrictions of the Ninth and Tenth
Amendment to the United States Constitution.
(2) In fulfilling its Article I of the United States Constitution duties and responsibilities, this Act
removes jurisdiction from the United States Supreme Court over the issue of abortion as settled in 410
U.S. 113 known as Roe v. Wade.
(3) By removing jurisdiction from the United States Supreme Court, the issue of abortion will be
settled in the States thereby restoring a federative relationship between the Federal Government and the
People of the States.
SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT OR ANY
LOWER FEDERAL COURT FROM HEARING OR ENTERTAINING ANY CASES
RELATED TO ABORTION.
(a) In General. – Any question of abortion shall not be brought before any Federal court.
(b) Dismissal of Pending Actions. - A qualified action that is pending on the date of enactment of this Act shall
be immediately dismissed by the federal court in which the action was brought or is currently pending.
Speaker of the House of Representatives _________________________
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate ________________________________________