Posted on 06/26/2024 4:34:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in Murthy v. Missouri dropped Wednesday, shattering the hopes of conservatives that maybe, just maybe, the Judicial Branch would stand up for the First Amendment rights of ordinary Americans against the egregious abuses of the executive bureaucracy.
But no. The Court instead ruled that the plaintiffs lacked standing because the Biden White House allegedly backed off of its censorship campaign after the 2022 midterms (it didn’t). The ruling essentially allows the federal government to continue trampling on the First Amendment rights of ordinary Americans by deputizing social media companies to do what federal agencies cannot do directly: police what Americans are allowed to say online.
If this result shocks you, if you’re surprised and outraged that the Supreme Court, which you thought was dominated by a solid conservative majority, you shouldn’t be. If you thought the supposedly conservative majority on the Court was going to check the worst impulses of the executive branch and restore the constitutional rights of Americans, you shouldn’t have. If you reposed your hope for the survival of the American republic in five or six black-robed justices who would stand athwart the tyranny of the administrative state and the collapse of our political institutions, you can say goodbye to all that. The Supreme Court is not going to save America.
And just to be clear, neither is Donald Trump. In fact, the Court’s ruling makes it all the more likely that Trump won’t even get the chance, because it gives the Biden administration a greenlight to ramp up a speech suppression campaign ahead of the November election through “censorship by surrogate,” in the memorable phrase of constitutional law attorney Jonathan Turley.
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Disgusting! How can these people even look their own children in the eyes, knowing that they sold out their futures to psychopathic, totalitarian monsters?
I guess for them living with oneself grows stronger as the conscience grows weaker.
If Trump isn’t an idiot, the next time he gets to appoint a SCOTUS judge, he needs to pick up the phone and call Clarence Thomas for who he should pick.
guess conservatives still have to learn the hard way. nothing ‘saves,’ except Jesus.
That’s what they want. Think about their military capability versus ours. It would be a bloody mistake and would be the equivalent of putting paper in a shredder… except these are not paper, but our sons and daughters.
If you think they don’t have a plan for it… go back and review how they used j6 to falsify statistics and impoverish good people.
There is only one way… it is the difficult but sure way to move this generationally.
Think about it but do the math. "Their" military is tiny compared to the size of the USA and its population. You are a fool if you think the US milatary can put down a rebel state let alone a dozen or more states.
Re: 11 - good grief.
This most certainly is a conservative court. Dobbs, Bruen and a host of other decisions are decisions that would have never come to fruition without conservative court members.
But because EVERY decision does not go they way we expect then it’s apparently no good.
Packing the Supreme Court has always worked for the Demagogic Party, all the way back to FDR. That's the move. Stop carrying water for the DNC.
The opus has exceptions.
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