Posted on 05/08/2024 3:59:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Court failed to protect our country in 2020. Maybe now the situation is urgent enough to make a difference.
Has the Supreme Court noticed that we’ve crossed a legal Rubicon? The Constitution — that thing the Court is supposed to defend — is becoming less relevant by the day because the left has decided that our mutual pact of self-governance doesn’t apply to leftists. They have weaponized our government against us — using it to surveil, silence, harass, and steal from us. Our own government is even arguing that the Constitution should not be a constraint on its operations — which is precisely what its purpose is.
Are the Supreme Court Justices beginning to realize that we are in crisis? Two recent cases indicate that they are awakening to that reality.
In Fischer v. United States, the court is considering the validity of using a financial statute to charge January 6 trespassers with obstruction of an official proceeding. During questioning, Justice Gorsuch asked, “Would pulling a fire alarm before a vote qualify for 20 years in federal prison?” He was referring to Democrat Jamaal Bowman, who pulled a fire alarm to prevent a congressional vote yet was not charged with “obstructing an official proceeding.” That was Gorsuch’s way of asking if something other than party affiliation determines who will face the greater jeopardy of obstruction charges. It was a sarcastic illustration of the decidedly unequal system of justice the DoJ is currently practicing.
In Trump v. United States, the Court is considering whether Donald Trump has immunity for actions taken while he was president. The DoJ argued that the motive for presidential actions should determine whether immunity applies and that the discretion and good motivations of DoJ attorneys should be trusted to make that determination (try not to laugh).
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(That’s Joseph Pulitzer under Photobucket’s watermark).
I disagree in that state laws MUST conform to the guidelines of the Constitution.
State laws are not absolutely sovereign.
I think there is room to disagree on specific details on this, which is where I think we disagree. But I think overall, I would stand by my statement that state governments are not sovereign unto themselves in this Republic .
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1. FEDERAL courts have no business enforcing STATE election laws. This is a clear jurisdictional matter between federal and state governments, and there is no role for federal courts in state elections unless there are civil/voting rights issues in dispute.
2. Even if there WAS a clear, undisputed civil/voting rights issue in one or more states in 2020, any court action must be initiated by an aggrieved party. If Pennsylvania somehow violated the Civil Right Act and/or the Voting Rights Act, for example, then the affected voters in Pennsylvania would have the legal standing to file lawsuits against the state in federal court. The State of Texas, on the other hand, is not an aggrieved party in the matter. This goes directly to the “lack of standing” determination in the Texas case against other states in 2020.
3. In every disputed state in the 2020 election, the state legislature had the authority to override its own state courts in the appointment of presidential electors, if the election process violated state law. None of them did. It’s not up to the federal courts to do the job that state legislatures are unwilling to do.
4. If states have the legal standing to get federal courts to enforce the laws of other states, then the first consequence in the first federal court ruling is that all state laws must be eliminated and then replaced by a national standard that all states must meet. Trust me — that’s the LAST thing you would want.
Lord I hope Trump hires a DOJ that is twice as partisan as these Clowns!! I pray for the 3:00 am raid of Jack Smith’s Home!! The New York Crooks being Cuffed and stuffed!!!
Please post any evidence you have to support this statement.
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I was starting a reply, but you hit all the points.
Republicans got caught asleep at the switch and should have had a well formed strategy before the election. Instead, we had the clown car team of R. Giuliani, S. Powell, J. Ellis, etc making claims they could not back up and taking valuable bandwidth. Add to that kook claims by Mike Lindell that he could not back up and the results expected.
2020 is over. People should stop whining about it and look to 2024.
I agree that states are not absolutely sovereign, but the language of the U.S. Constitution gives an enormous degree of plenary power to state legislatures when it comes to presidential elections.
How's that working out for you Chief "Justice" Johnnie? You've turned the United States Supreme Court into just another bureaucracy; just another branch of the federal government controlled by weaklings who are paralyzed with fear of the Democrat/Communist Party America/American-hating Left, or who sympathize and support the principles of the Democrat/Communist Party America/American-hating Left.
What a waste of a perfectly good black robe!
I understand your view on this, FRiend...:)
Do not expect a courageous acts by the nine.
“If the constitution no longer applies, then fire them. That lifetime tenure only applies if the constitution applies.”
I absolutely agree!
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