There is only one law: do no harm. Everything else is tyranny.
Posted on 07/09/2024 2:56:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Despite all the recent talk about “our democracy,” the United States today is not a democracy. This is easy to understand. The concept of democracy says that the people governed are the government. In a large civilization, this means not a direct democracy but a representative democracy, which sees the people’s elected representatives make the laws. Today, though, most of the “laws” that govern the people do not come from their elected representatives. Instead, executive branch agencies promulgate them contrary to Article I of the US Constitution. That provides “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States…”
This means that, as things stand today, the USA is not a democracy—but there is hope. The US Supreme Court that issued the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v Wade may be just the institution with both the will and the power to restore democracy to the USA.
The Dobbs decision, which held that there is no federal constitutional right to an abortion, announced to the world that this Supreme Court is determined to follow the law honestly and courageously wherever it leads, without regard to political consequences. Fiat justitia ruat coelum! (“Let justice be done though the heavens fall.”)
The defiant roar of the Dobbs Court continues to echo through the political valleys of our land and recently expressed itself in a broadside of four decisions, SEC v. Jarkesey, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, Fischer v. United States, and Trump v. United States.
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A good article. Thanks.
Yeah, but all we need are for these things to happen and the constitution goes out the window:
1. One or both constitution preserving justices dies or resigns
2. Joe Biden ( or his replacement) chooses another justice like Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace him.
We have to make sure #2 never happens. This country is standing on a tightrope.
What did I tell you? We really should give up on Trump and the Republicans and vote in straight Democrats! /s
A friend and I were discussing yesterday why Roberts appears to have shifted stance appearing conservative in opinion and active to show that. My friend opined it is because Roberts has seen the court becoming irrelevant and losing significance and independence as the third leg of government. Could be so.
I don’t think so. They give our side a win, then they give the left a win. I think they are trying to be balanced, which I don’t agree with. Strict interpretation is the only way to get a handle on things
There is only one law: do no harm. Everything else is tyranny.
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-F JRoberts-
Until they rule that the income tax violates the first, fourth, fifth and fourteenth amendments then it’s just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic...
The History and Danger of Administrative Law
https://constitutionclub.wordpress.com/2014/10/01/the-history-and-danger-of-administrative-law/
bookmark. Thanks for posting.
All very good decisions but let me know when they Abolish the FICTION of Qualified Immunity the court created out of thin air.
The only way any of this will matter is if Washington is cleaned up. The recent good SCOTUS rulings, save for the overturning of Roe, have largely been ignored and SCOTUS hasn’t said or done a damn thing about it. The only reason I mention this is that we need to recognize that America is still headed completely in the wrong direction and this Court seems powerless or unwilling to assert its powers.
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