SECTION 3.1.
1. The judicial power of the Confederate States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, which shall consist of one Chief Justice and four Associate Justices and in such Inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the Supreme and Inferior Courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior till age seventy years, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services a compensation which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.
2. If the Supreme Court or any inferior federal court loses a majority of their members in cases of terrorism, war, or other disaster then the President shall have the power to appoint new Judges as needed without the consent of the Senate for a period of ninety days. After ninety days the Senate may confirm the appointments as provided for in the Constitution or extend the time period till the Judges are confirmed.
SECTION 3.2.
1. The judicial power shall extend to all cases arising under this Constitution, the laws of the Confederate States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority; to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to controversies to which the Confederate States shall be a party; to controversies between two or more States; between a State and a citizen of another State, where the State is plaintiff; between citizens claiming lands under grants of different States; and between a State or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens or subjects; but no State shall be sued by a citizen or subject of any foreign State.
2. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a State shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall have original 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.
3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury, and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.
SECTION 3.3.
1. Treason against the Confederate States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
2. The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason; but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture, except during the life of the person attainted.
SECTION 3.4.
1. All Judges shall be independent in the exercise of their conscience and shall be bound only by this Constitution and the laws and are prohibited from practicing Judicial Activistism or ruling on social or cultural issues and invoking other concepts of non-objective law that displaces or supersedes natural, British or American Common Law.
2. Congress or any State is prohibited from requiring any Judge to follow mandatory sentencing laws.
3. A convicted person, or group of persons, lawfully imprisoned for a crime, shall not have the power to sue any prison authority over the conditions of their imprisonment except in a manner that Congress may by law provide for.
4. The trial of all class action lawsuits, criminal or civil, that involves two or more States shall be argued in a Confederate court as the Congress may by law direct.
5. A manufacturer, supplier, seller, or producer of any legal goods and services, including arms and ammunition, shall not be held liable for the deliberate misuse of said good or service nor if used in a crime.
6. If any court of law finds that any lawsuit is frivolous or without any merit the complaint and his lawyers may be found liable for all court and lawyer fees in whole or part.
SECTION 3.5.
The Judicial power of the Confederate States shall not -
1. Extend to any case or controversy arising on increasing, decreasing, mandating, or changes to appropriations and taxes that Congress or the States may decide except as may be specifically authorized by legislation:
2. Override the will of the majority of the Citizens if their petition for redress of grievances, initiatives, or referendum does not violate either this or individual State Constitutions:
3. Prohibit the use or method of Capital Punishment in a State justice system. This power is reserved to the States. But the convicted person is allowed one review of the death sentence by a Confederate appeals court that Congress may by law provide for. This court will either uphold the sentence or pass it on to the Supreme Court for final disposition only if there are Constitutional questions. If the appeals court or Supreme Court upholds the sentence, the State may then carry out the sentence in accordance with their laws:
4. Find any part of a State Constitution null and void unless it is a violation of this Constitution:
5. Extend to regulate, control, or prohibit the educational, religious, and moral standards of local communities:
6. Place limits on any political campaign financing or political speech, and:
7. Extend to regulate, alter, mandate, or modify any State's voter qualifications or ballots.
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