The Supreme Court won’t
save conservatism
New York Post,
by
Josh Hammer
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
6/26/2021 3:08:28 AM
For decades, conservatives have sought to regain lost culture-war ground through judicial nominations, with GOP voters consistently rating the Supreme Court a higher priority than do Democrats.As the latest high-court term winds down — one featuring a putative 6-3 “conservative” majority — it’s worth taking stock of where that project stands. The answer: not in a great place. Consider two of this term’s highest-profile cases: California v. Texas (on ObamaCare) and the Fulton v. City of Philadelphia (on religious liberty).In California, a 7-2 majority of Supremes again left former President Barack Obama’s signature domestic policy untouched. The court declined to reach the substantive issue — the constitutionality
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Troutgreen 6/26/2021 6:39:07 AM (No. 826950)
Try appointing some truly conservative judges and see if that helps.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
seamusm 6/26/2021 7:17:16 AM (No. 826967)
Judges can NEVER be relied on to do what is OUR responsibillity. And that is to make sure our government represents OUR wishes. It requires that we vote and hold responsible our elected officials. It demands that we stop trusting the media to do honest un-biased journalism. We must also recognize that EVERY elected position (from school boards to dogcatcher) is important because when we let the camel's nose under the tent we invite disaster. We have pretended that judicial appointments will fix everything only to be disappointed when our latest 'conservative' justice votes the wrong way. We must insist that our laws be clearly written not mere 'shells' letting bureaucrats and judges implement and interpret laws however they wish.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
anniebc 6/26/2021 7:41:51 AM (No. 826986)
The SC continues to make it clear to anyone watching that they can't and won't save anything. The question is who will save the SC?
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We still need to know about Roberts and those adoptions. If he was really on the flights to Epstein Isle, it all adds up to a wretched story. Plus, he is acting like a man who has been blackmailed.
And I was a big fan of ACB when she was nominated, but now I wonder. I thought it was great how she adopted kids from Haiti, but that's also a hub for child sex trafficking. Just ask the Clintons. One or their main minions, Laura Silsby, served time in a Haitian jail after she tried to leave the country with a group of unaccompanied minors. I wonder what she was planning on doing with those children. And I wonder why the media had no interest in this story, a white-American woman attempting to kidnap black children from a third-world country.
There is clearly something amiss at SCOTUS.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
broken01 6/26/2021 7:56:20 AM (No. 827006)
We knew that the minute that clown Roberts caved on Obamacare. It has been downhill with him as Chief Justice ever since. Thanks GWB you putz.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/26/2021 8:12:45 AM (No. 827023)
The SC has served no good purpose in the past twelve years so they should just be dissolved and sent home. They are an outdated bunch of black-robed shamans.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
wakeupcall 6/26/2021 8:26:45 AM (No. 827043)
What we are seeing today is what Thomas Jefferson feared about Judicial Tyranny.
“Nothing in the Constitution has given them [the federal judges] a right to decide for the Executive, more than to the Executive to decide for them. . . . The opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.”
“You seem . . . to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so . . . and their power [is] the more dangerous, as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots.”
“You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.... Their power [is] the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves.”
--- Thomas Jefferson
Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps [group of people]. . . . and their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control.
—Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Charles Jarvis, Sept. 28, 1820
"It has long, however, been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression, (although I do not choose to put it into a newspaper, nor, like a Priam in armor, offer myself its champion,) the germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary: an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow,) working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little to-day and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one. To this I am opposed; because, when all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated."
--- Thomas Jefferson - Letter to Charles Hammond, August 18, 1821
"In denying the right [the Supreme Court usurps - [taken for its self]] of exclusively explaining the Constitution, I go further than [others] do, if I understand rightly [this] quotation from the Federalist of an opinion that 'the judiciary is the last resort in relation to the other departments of the government, but not in relation to the rights of the parties to the compact under which the judiciary is derived.'
If this opinion be sound, then indeed is our Constitution a complete felo de se [act of suicide].
For intending to establish three departments, coordinate and independent, that they might check and balance one another, it has given, according to this opinion, to one of them alone the right to prescribe rules for the government of the others, and to that one, too, which is unelected by and independent of the nation. For experience has already shown that the impeachment it has provided is not even a scare-crow... The Constitution on this hypothesis is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please." --Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, 1819. ME 15:212
"This member of the Government [Supreme Court] was at first considered as the most harmless and helpless of all its organs. But it has proved that the power of declaring what the law is, ad libitum, by sapping and mining slyly and without alarm the foundations of the Constitution, can do what open force would not dare to attempt." --Thomas Jefferson to Edward Livingston, 1825. ME 16:114
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 6/26/2021 8:26:55 AM (No. 827044)
We don’t have a 6-3 conservative court. I cringe whenever I see almost every talking head on TV mindlessly referring to the 6-3 conservative court. By the court not taking at least some of the voter fraud cases. it court made some of the most important mistakes in its entire history. These mistakes my well be causing irreparable damages to at least decades of honest and fair elections. The Democrats know this as they are ASAP taking full advantage. Apparently they have concluded that they have got the Supreme Court by the short hairs and they will plow ahead full speed until, if ever, they are stopped.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
3XALADY 6/26/2021 8:30:05 AM (No. 827047)
@#4 She may have been bringing them home to Hillary. When I was listening to Caravan To Midnight, I heard Field Connell say his sister and Hillary were involved in child trafficking for years.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/26/2021 9:43:39 AM (No. 827133)
SCOTUS things they are GODS, and their building is Olympus! Therein lies the problem!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 6/26/2021 11:55:57 AM (No. 827277)
The Supreme Court made the biggest mistake in the history of the United States when it refused to consider issues of election integrity following the November 2020 presidential vote. Gross errors of the past, Dred Scott and Plessy v. Ferguson come to mind, will pale in comparison. The justices succumbed to pressure perceived or actual. Perceived in that the MSM was ready to smear, actual in that Antifa and BLM types knew where the Justices lived. The respect once given to the Supreme Court has vanished and rightly so. It will never return.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Muguy 6/26/2021 2:14:48 PM (No. 827371)
A great book explaining how the Supreme Court ought to work bit often doesn't is Mark R. Levin's book "Men in Black"...
NoBama filled the court with agenda-driven activists posing as jurists. Apparently, two of Mr. Trump's three nominees are spinless and fearful.
The strange murder of Justice Scalia has thrown things into a tizzy.
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