If Hillary gets another lefty on the SCOTUS, the 1st and 2nd amds are going to be reinterpreted 180* opposite their intent.
1st amd: “No shouting fire in a theater.” If you provoke violence by your words, you will be held liable. Laws against “inflammatory speech” will be passed and found constitutional. What is “inflammatory speech?” Anything that provokes a 3rd party to violence. IOW, it was Charlie Hebdo’s fault they were massacred. They “triggered” the Moslem attack. Ergo, other Charlie Hebdos must be outlawed.
Truth is not a valid defense. Sharia “blasphemy” standards don’t care about truth. If you write that Mohammed was a mass-murderer and pedophile (quoting from the Koran and Hadith), you are still blaspheming. IOW, truthful speech about Islam will be outlawed under the new interpretation of the 1st Amd. We know Hillary supports this, because she urged Congress to ratify UN Res. 16/18, a “Sharia standard” for “free speech.”
2nd Amd: The meaning of “militia” has now “evolved” to mean the national guard and other recognized official reserve units. Ergo, there is no longer an individual right for private persons to own firearms. States can outlaw any weapons that “are capable of holding a magazine containing more than five rounds” if they so choose, and this law will be upheld as constitutional by Hillary’s SCOTUS.
Nine unelected political appointees should not be the final word on what our rights as American citizens are.
Especially since the recent appointees have been more concerned with enforcing the ideology of the person that appointed them than they are of examining laws as to their constitutionality.
To put it simply, the SCOTUS was supposed to be the branch of government the founders created to protect us from the consequences of our electing bad politicians.
One can argue about when it was that the SCOTUS changed from what it was meant to be to what it is, but clearly, what it has become is NOT what the founders envisioned and our freedoms as Americans are in peril from them as surely as we are from bad choices at the voting booth.
I sincerely hope we can begin to turn the tide with this upcoming election because the ever increasing intrusions on our personal freedoms are rapidly becoming intolerable.
I’ve mentioned in several comments before that I will consent to being governed but I will refuse to be ruled. Well, we’re rapidly approaching the point where they’ve pushed about as far as I’m willing to let them. That includes allowing my rights as an American citizen to be determined by 9 black robed political appointees on the Supreme court telling me that their interpretation of the Bill of Rights is so fundamentally different than mine.
There’s a lot more I’d like to say but something is telling me I should stop here, for now.