Posted on 06/20/2022 6:10:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Sunday, conservative talker Mark Levin blamed the January 6 House Select Committee for what he declared to be the “demise” of the country, which he said was an effort to get an indictment against former President Donald Trump.
Levin deemed the effort evidence of a post-constitutional America.
Transcript as follows:
LEVIN: this is a pocket copy of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. It all comes down to this, doesn’t it?
I’ve spent 40 years — 40 years of my life studying this, really longer if you think about it. And why is that? Because this is supposed to be the overall law of the land that protects our individuality, our freedom, and the civil society.
And in many ways, we live in a post-constitutional America and those who are waving around the Constitution today on the January 6 Committee had been major participants in its demise.
Let me ask you a question: Let’s say you’re going to go to a Court of law. There is no Judge. There’s no jury. You don’t have a lawyer. You can’t call witnesses.
You can’t provide exculpatory evidence. In fact, you can’t even be heard. You just have to watch and watch.
Let’s say the jury is chosen by Nancy Pelosi. But don’t worry, it’s bipartisan. We have seven Democrats and two Republicans. And there is the media in the back, taking pictures, rolling the cameras, taking notes as scribes for the prosecution, the prosecution being the jury.
And then reporting, oh, we have new findings. New information has come out.
It is not a perfect parallel, but it’s good enough.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I wonder if anyone remembers James McClellan and his Center for Judicial Studies.
He published a journal called Benchmark back in the 1980s and to me was the scholar that Mark Levin pretends to be. McClellan died much too young.
“James McClellan, Benchmark, And an informed public.”
https://isi.org/intercollegiate-review/james-mcclellan-embenchmark-em-and-an-informed-public/
Good! Then there is no compact between the states.
Amen. Just as I was coming back, he pulls these stunts. I’m leaving his camp also. He just can’t be trusted.
“Woodrow Wilson”
Teddy Roosevelt. People seem unaware of the GOP’s progressive history.
Teddy not only was a progressive Republican, he ran for President on the Progressive Party ticket in 1912, splitting the GOP vote and giving the election to Woodrow Wilson.
Some of FDR’s New Dealers began their political careers with Teddy before switching parties to support young cousin Franklin.
He eventually came around, but he was adamantly anti-Trump for a long, long time.
You seem to be very proud of your ignorance.
In the time between the convention and when he finally got behind Trump, he was effectively campaigning for Hillary.
Bump. Good read.
I never ran into writings of James McClellan. My trajectory had me deep into Archibald Roberts, Robert White, and a few others from early 80’s - then got immersed in work, then studied law starting mid 1990’s.
Reading cases and looking at citations (to see what they really stood for) was eye opening. Courts are fundamentally dishonest. Not that knowing the law is pointless, but it is not an honest venue. Any run of the mill case outcome is “flip a coin,” and hot cases are decided based on judicial preference. There are enough preceents out there to support any outcome. Not honestly, but “it looks good on paper” unless you study carefully and find the trick.
The Teddy that was born in Canada? That Teddy?
Yes. The two party charade is that old. The world is run by a few powerful families. It has always been that way. These people prop up compliant politicians.
In fact it probably will offend all currently elected Democrats and all "diversity is our strength" Republicans.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed02.asp
With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people--a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence.
This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties.
.
“I think you should give up on your reasoning or comprehension ability.”
Which do you think would be better to abandon?
“Wilson got the Fed, income tax, and while it didn’t last, league of nations.”
The National Monetary Commission whose study formed the basis of the Fed began during Teddy’s presidency. It was a Congressional committee created by the Aldrich-Vreeland Act. It passed in the House on a party line vote with no Democrats voting for it. Aldrich and Vreeland were both Republicans.
The income tax required an Amendment to the Constitution. Teddy made two speeches in favor of an income tax while he was President.
Teddy’s Republican successor President William Taft proposed an income tax in an address to Congress. Republican Senators Brown and Aldrich both submitted resolutions for an Income Tax Amendment. The resolution passed in 1909 and was ratified and became law in February 1913 one month before Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated President.
The League of Nations by contrast actually was his.
“As was so often Joe Sobran said it best: The Constitution poses no threat whatsoever to our current form of government.”
But Joe Sobran posed a threat to neocons and to Conservatism Inc and they sought to ruin him. Bill Buckley hurt his reputation in that episode.
“The Teddy that was born in Canada? That Teddy?”
As far as I know Teddy was born in NYC to a family that dates back to New Amsterdam, but you could be right.
Could you be thinking of Chester Arthur who probably was born in Canada?
You’re definitely better read in the law than I am. Benchmark was the only interesting journal I ever read.
Your cynical opinion of the legal system probably understates how bad it all is.
While I am not a big Levin fan, I agree 100%
It seems that the constitution isn’t on anyone’s minds when 90% of these laws are drawn up. I’m not convinced most of the members of congress care at all about the constitution.
Sorry but the DOJ, and FBI need to be fired from the ground up, what we have in DC is no longer a ballot box problem it has become an ENTRENCHED bureaucrat problem!! Getting rid of the upper echelon is not going to fix a damn thing!! DC needs to be split up and transferred across the country, MANY departments need to be done away with completely!! DC has become an uncontrollable BEAST, DOJ, FBI, CIA need to be FIRED from the ground up there is no other way, if this is not done the country will NEVER be restored!!!
Yep. Buckley did his neocon enforcers’ bidding. Sobran died nearly penniless and in very poor health. He never really recovered from his expulsion from polite conservative society and had trouble supporting himself.
True! But not the opening ploy. Near the end of Prez Trump's (first) term in office, Pelosi and House Democrats stated that they had the power to impeach the president once every week if they wished to.
I pointed out at the time that this would give the House power over the president, thus eliminating the separation of powers AND replacing our Constitutional system with a parliamentary system! Nasty Pelosi continues to run roughshod over the Constitution and build her own power base, including a secret police force.
The Jan 6 committee is unconstitutional! Instead of searching for the cause of the breakdown of normal order, the committee is investigating political opponents attempting to prove criminal activity. It has hired more than half a dozen prosecuting attorneys to assist in uncovering criminal actions. Criminal investigations are clearly the Constitutional responsibility of the executive branch - the DoJ! If the Congress encounters what it believes could constitute criminal activity, it is supposed to refer the matter to the Attorney General.
Then of course there is the matter of Senator Chuck Schumer agitating to 'stack the Supreme Court' with additional justices. After eliminating the filibuster, the (permanent) Dem Congress would control all three branches of federal power, thus eliminating all Constitutional protections to citizens... subsequently cancelling the 2nd Amendment would solidify their permanent ruling status.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.