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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So who will?
No, they’re not!
RE: So who will?
My personal opinion is our actions as individuals outside the system is the only source of true justice.
*So who will?*
*No, they’re not!*
Elections won’t either my friends.
Think Rudy. Think Augusto.
Roberts is a traitor. The women are useless morons especially Barrett
Kavanagh is a cuck.
Thatcher paved the way for Reagan. Now we got Javier Milei and the Palestinian in ElSalvador. Europe elections last week. What’s there to not like?
So, not a damn thing.
I never assumed they would. The two actual conservatives / Constitutionalists on the Court are a small minority... And they are under attack by the Deep State and their radical allies to try to distract them from their duties and to coerce them to betray their values for the sake of their own survival..
I don’t know that I could argue with that assessment!
I have said this at least a hundred times before but it bares repeating, when I look back at what the hell we went through to seat Kavanaugh what a total waste of a fight!!! These candidates were all given to Trump by the Heritage Foundation who I also NO LONGER trust!! There are RINOS everywhere LYING to our faces!! Gorsuch was the one I had my doubts about YET he has turned out to be a SOLID justice! Kavanaugh is a FRAT BOY with his damn nose so far up Roberts ass you can’t see his face!! THIS IS NOT a conservative court and it is such a shame just how much OUR OWN DAMN SIDE has betrayed us and Trump!!
It’s a Deep State scum court.
I must admit that I am more than fed-up with the elitism of the members of the legal system in our country.
For the Supreme Court to so blatantly avoid a decision on the First Amendment based on their historically imposed notion of ‘standing’ is beyond the pale.
For God’s Sake! They exist for just this very reason...to settle CONSTITUTIONAL issues.
You. You will.
Sadly I have to agree.
Two and 1/2, Gorsuch usually votes with Alito and Thomas.
We are lawless. We are in danger. We are a threat.. And Joe is not the one in power.
Is it time to fertilize the Tree of Liberty?
Don’t use social media. Maybe some non communist will start up something to replace the various dung piles.
Trump was duped by his last two court selections.
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