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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Supreme my ass! Made up of common people with flaws so deep that some can’t even define what a woman is! And ‘they’ are going to protect our Constitution? We are in serious trouble.....
“In Trump v. United States, the Court is considering whether Donald Trump has immunity for actions taken while he was president.”
Obviously, a president should not have total immunity.But he should have as much immunity as an underling with respect to any particular executive function.
Trump did nothing wrong with respect to January 6th.
Wow. What a well written, on-target opinion piece. This should be read far and wide.
It won’t be.
But it should.
I remember when the government didn’t totally resemble a cross between the Mob and an insane asylum.
I think you are mis-reading this.
The author is not advocating for federalization of elections the way I read it.
The way I read it is the author is making the very valid point that people from these states have legal battles regarding election law and the content of the cases bears on the constitutionality of the components of those battles, and he asserts (rightly, IMO) that the Supreme Court abdicated their responsibility by NOT getting involved.
If they grant immunity, it has to be very tightly administered for trump only. We don’t have kings here.
That is what we have. They have a job to do, just like the Legislative and the Executive branches.
It is a triad, a three-legged stool. If any one of them fails to do their job, our Republic cannot stand.
They are supposed to be the arbiter of whether the other branches are conforming to the Constitution. In fact, the last defense of the Constitution.
As it is now, all three branches of our government are failing.
The Legislative and Executive branches ignore the Constitutional guidelines, and now, do so brazenly and with no penalty, and the Judicial Branch simply refuses to do their job in order to keep their apron clean.
Which is the main point of the opinion piece.
I don’t think the constitution holds a lot of sway in DC nowadays, unless there’s an outbreak of dysentery..
Getting Federal courts involved in general procedural matters in state elections is a giant can of worms that would turn into a complete disaster once or is opened. The Texas 2020 case cited by the author would have established a terrible precedent that would have eventually led to the elimination of state election standards. Even Clarence Thomas admitted that he didn’t think Texas would have prevailed in that case, which made his desire for the Supreme Court to accept the case all the more baffling.
This kind of faith in a judicial body is delusional and dangerous — to the point of pathological.
Even if you put aside the politics of the Supreme Court nomination and decision-making processes, I suspect most people on this website would be astonished at just how mediocre these justices are. Our goal should be to REDUCE the court’s influence in our lives, not look to it as a last bastion in defense of freedom and order. Jeez — that’s like handing your car keys to a third grader and asking him to be your designated driver.
“… The House said Biden couldn’t cancel them.
The Senate said Biden couldn’t cancel them.
The Supreme Court said Biden couldn’t cancel them.
Biden keeps cancelling them.
What’s the fix for that?…”
It set a precedent for a host of actions the Trump administration can take to right the ship of state. Dark cloud, silver lining.
what about Schumer deep-sixing the articles of impeachment for mayorkas. That was a fck you and what you gonna do about it move.
Kind of at a loss how you deal with this when the state media actively covers and supports these unconstitutional slaps in the face.
I guess if we didn’t have a uniparty the republicans could force the issue, hold all spending back and turn a light on these cockroaches. yea right lol
I don’t think I misread it at all. Constitutional matters are one thing, but allowing one state to use the Federal courts to enforce another state’s laws has no basis in U.S. constitutional law. It basically abrogates the sovereignty of state governments.
“It set a precedent for a host of actions the Trump administration can take to right the ship of state. Dark cloud, silver lining.”
the problem is if Trump did it, the state media would be 24/7 on the dictator-trashes-the-constitution narrative forcing Trump on the defensive. Even using all the unconstitutional crap Biden did as an excuse it won’t matter because that ship sailed and we don’t have a fair media.
BTTT
Congress used to do their job and impeach and remove the president.
“Any President who cancels without express legal authority loan owed to the United States shall be liable for such cancelled loan.”
Pull a Jack Smith. Wait for the person to leave office then indict him for civil crimes for his actions in office. Easy peasy. /s
EC
You are reading this wrong, they are calling for the courts to mandate that state election laws be followed.
The courts allowed election laws to be ignored because “covid”. That was where things went wrong. If the laws on the books had been followed Trump would have won.
CJ Roberts, ACB and Kavanaugh are all compromised. The cake is baked unless those three have a collective “come to Jesus” awakening and act quickly to save our Republic.
Our Constitutional system is broken and I fear nothing short of a revolution will reestablish anything resembling the government the Founders created.
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