Posted on 11/23/2021 3:12:01 PM PST by Dr. Franklin
Lindell was just on Bannon's War Room discussing the pending complaint to be filed at SCOTUS. Lindell has quarterbacked the efforts to have state AGs file for violation of the Guarantee Clause of Article IV, Sec. 4, of the U.S. Constitution. When the AGs join the suit against the federal government, they have standing, as I have noted before. Some of these RINOs are balking at joining the action to save the Republic. Full pressure is need on these A-holes.
Lindell will be “unpacking” the complaint over the long holiday weekend for those who need the constitutional law explained in greater detail. He promises even more details on the massive cheating than has been revealed heretofore.
I give a great deal of credit to Lindell, even if SCOTUS rejects the case. His intentions are sincere. I pray his efforts are sucessful.
100% in agreement. This nation is on the edge of a cliff. Rino’s are no better then leftist democrats.
Well said.
Last month, he promised to file a suit in the Supreme Court by 9:30 this morning.
Ronna ROMNEY McDaniel!!!! (And she’s enough of a Romney to still be a Mormon at age 48.)
That may explain it all!!!!
You would think in all this time Lindell would have been able to find one willing to sign in order to keep his filing promise.
I like lindell but something isn’t right here. He waited several months to release the election packets at his symposium. Then he never mentioned the packets. It was two months ago when he promised to “file” this SCOTUS action. Who takes two months to “file” if the paperwork is already completed. Just waiting for signatures which he can’t get. Making excuse after excuse. The Rinos have turned on him. Why doesn’t he just say so.
Exactly. He is a good sales man, but he way over hyped and way under delivered. Still want to know how many AG’s signed on to this and he won’t give a number,....at least this morning he wouldn’t. Sorry but he may be a great patriot, but so far even the obvious fraud out there he has ignored it. Obsessed too much with Dominion and Fox when its the mailin ballots he should be focused on. That was the fraud!
Article IV, Sec. 4 is the right play. It negates ranked voting, direct democracy*, and attacks on the electoral college, not to mention the entire administrative state.
To what end, well, we don’t have the Court. Roberts, or whoever has his sex tapes, does.
* direct democracy is an end-run around republican government not only because it violates the principles of representative government (see Federalist No. 51), it serves as a useful tool for legislatures to avoid and deny responsibility to the voters.
here’s an interesting discussion about the creation and debate of the clause (61 pages):
https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1862&context=mlr#:~:text=Article%20IV%2C%20section%204%2C%20of%20the%20United%20States,on%20application%20of%20the%20legislature%2C%20or%20of%20the
“The provision’s opening, “The United States shall,” provides the only instance where the government by its corporate name is given a duty. The Court would therefore have been faced with the question as to which branch or branches of the Federal Government were bound to perform its mandate. Obviously the words “The United States shall” (the word “shall” being mandatory) do not in themselves designate any particular arm of the government as the responsible agency. Rather, they intimate that the obligation rests on all the departments of the government, in their appropriate spheres.
This conclusion seems especially persuasive when it is recalled that the guarantee clause was not placed in articles I, HI, or III, which prescribe the respective powers and duties of each branch of the government. Instead, it was located in a separate and later article of the Constitution. This being so, the Supreme Court would probably have concluded that the judiciary was as fully empowered to enforce the obligation as was Congress...
... contemporary usage of the word “guarantee,” would have empowered the United States to take measures that would protect, as well as restore, republican government. The central authority was not to be a passive observer while a state headed toward autocracy. It could take all measures reasonably necessary to avoid such a catastrophe. Section 4 would thus have sanctioned affirmative national action to organize and preserve republican government...But who was the beneficiary of this guarantee? The provision says “every state.” ... the Court could only have concluded that it was intended as a guarantee to the people of every state, for only they would benefit by such a provision...As a result, every individual would be the beneficiary of the guarantee. Each would therefore be entitled to its fulfilment, even against the will of a majority of his fellow citizens....The analysis of the guarantee clause in light of contemporary materials demonstrates that it endowed the federal government with great power which was to be used to preserve republican government. As such, it was the only part of the Constitution that afforded the people any general protection against abuses in their state governance...
...In the past 50 years some rather significant developments have occurred in the growth of the fourteenth amendment which might partially explain the Court’s willingness to relinquish its powers under section 4...Thus, as the Court discarded the guarantee clause as judicially unenforcible, it adopted and expanded the fourteenth amendment as a vehicle for achieving many of the same ends..However, in rejecting the guarantee clause as a useful tool, the Court apparently failed to consider the long term consequences of its repudiation of that broader provision. For while the fourteenth amendment has managed to assume most of the burdens of section 4, it has been incapable of assuming them all...
... Nowhere in the Constitution is there any intimation that section 4 was to be enforced solely by the electorate. Indeed, its enforcement by the ballot was just what the framers wished to avoid, since they desired the guarantee to be mandatory and to serve as protection against both majority and minority abuse. Any construction of that provision which rests its enforcement solely in the hands of a majority of the electorate would therefore be sheer folly. Further, it should be recalled that section 4 was intended to insure substantial uniformity among all the state governments inter se, and between the states and the federal government. This, because significant substantive nonconforniLties were deemed dangerous to the survival and future of our federal system. Only a construction of section 4 that would enable the Court to enforce the provision’s mandate would be consistent with any absolute determination to insure the realization of these goals...
The Court should therefore modify its view and lend its authority to the guarantee’s enforcement. For not only is its present abstention indefensible, but it effectively deprives numerous Americans of their birthright. If the Court enforces section 4, it will insure the maintenance of state government that is consistent with contemporary notions of republicanism. Therefore, any subsequent enumeration of Congress’ specific powers under that provision will apply with equal force to the judiciary. That is, in proper cases and by judicial modes, the Court can force the states to do their duty...For judicial abstinence would give Congress unlimited power to impose on the states whatever government it deemed republican...Not only would such authority spell the complete end of our federal system, but it would also create an unchecked power capable of destroying rather than guaranteeing republican government. For this reason, though the Court might refuse to enforce the guarantee on its own initiative, it would review the legitimacy of any congressional attempt to do so.
a substantial residium of power inheres in the central government under the guarantee clause. For that clause places on the national government certain obligations which are not imposed by other parts of our fundamental law. More specifically, it obliges the federal government to use its authority to secure for all Americans a fuller realization of their political and civil rights. For only by the adequate protection and advancement of these rights can republican state government be achieved or preserved. The only force in our system capable of realizing this objective is the national governmenf. Small wonder then, that the guarantee endowed it with such power
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