By a 5-4 vote the Supreme Court has unleashed a constitutional crisis of a magnitude which is frightening. The Supreme Court gets my vote for the most destructive institution in American life and John Roberts as the worst Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. I am sure that Zombie Biden will see us through.
By not enforcing the immigration laws it can be argued that the Biden administration has exposed the border states to invasion, breaking one of the key guarantees the States have under the Constitution. We are on unknown and dangerous constitutional grounds here. Other Republican led States are rallying to Texas. It all calls to mind Bismarck’s prediction: “One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).”
Don’t forget Amy Coney Barrett’s vote. All that post Vatican II social justice nonsense. She was great in being pro-life, but she’s beholden to this sickening doctrine of social justice, the common good, and peace at any price.
Actually a good legal argument could be made that the Federal government is in control of the Rio Grande, a boundary river. However, she should also have taken into account the abdication of the Puppetmasters’ Regime in controlling our border. She was wrong, Roberts is simply malicious.
I’m no lawyer, and I probably wouldn’t understand the decision were I to read it … But I haven’t even seen it. All I’ve seen is demagoguery. Even Ted Cruz, a constitutional lawyer, was too busy trying to enrage his audience with illegal immigrant numbers and tales of suffering to bother acknowledging the court’s rationale. I admit, the feds’ public excuses, that the razor wire stops the border patrol from doing their job, is ridiculous. If the illegal immigrants weren’t flooding across the border because of razor wire, the border patrol’s job gets a lot easier.
But if the land belongs to the federal government, (and I have no idea whether it does or not) they should have every right to remove the wire while the lower court proceeds … That’s not to say that Texas can’t keep replacing it.
Roberts is a tool, but I’m inclined to give ACB the benefit of the doubt that she didn’t just engage in some emotion-driven judicial activism for the sake of a misguided understanding of social justice.
He doesn’t strike me as malicious a la William O. Douglas. He strikes me as a character who gives priority to keeping up appearances and maintaining status strata. Thus, we don’t get to learn who leaked Mr. Justice Alito’s draft opinion, reason being it would embarrass someone he doesn’t consider expendable. (One plausible candidate was one of Breyer’s clerks another Sotomayor intermediated by minions of Merrick Garland). The Supreme Court has made some idiot decisions with Roberts leading a 5-4 majority because Roberts is fundamentally an office politician. (Sterling example would be declaring the Census Bureau was debarred from enumerating the number of citizens in the country).
As we advance into this storm, it will become less and less important what the law and courts say. It will become increasingly what various people say those things say.
Combined conservatives tired of malicious treatment by sanctimonious lefties, it’s hard to see how 2024 won’t be a year to remember that we want to forget!
He doesn’t strike me as malicious a la William O. Douglas.
Douglas wasn’t malicious normally. He just wanted to be President up through 48 and his genius often tottered over into madness, especially in his last decade and a half on the Court. He also treated his clerks like serfs and his wives as completely disposable products. His kids didn’t find out he had died until they heard about it on the news because they had all severed all communication with him years before. Evil might be a better description for Douglas.
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State governments currently supporting Texas’ border resistance against the invasion of illegal Hispanic immigrants.
https://twitter.com/MarcusGustavus/status/1750570975945429088
How can we oppose Biden for ignoring Supreme Court rulings, but support Texas for doing the same without being raging hypocrites? Does the rule of law only apply when we agree with it?
Seems to me that governors and legislators in blue states like Illinois and New York are really caught between a rock and a hard place here: they’re desperate to stop the flow of illegals/migrants to their cities but they can’t be caught dead supporting some evil Republican like Abbott. Can’t help but feel a bit of schadenfreude here….
Someone on another blog suggested flying Texas flags as a show of support for Abbott just like lefties have been doing with Ukraine flags in support of Zelensky. I would sure love to see certain neighborhoods in Chicago, NYC, etc. start being awash in Lone Star flags…
They haven’t ignored a Supreme Court ruling. All the ruling said was that the Feds could remove the barrier in the Rio Grande put up by Texas. As for criticizing rulings of the Supreme Court that has occurred since the earliest days of the Republic and is as American as the Stars and Stripes.
“They haven’t ignored a Supreme Court ruling.”
I’m not sure who “they” is here, but clicking around the internet, you’ll find a whole lot of people suggesting rejection of the Court ruling and calling for confrontation with the feds.
The only legally relevant “they” is the government of Texas.
But I wasn’t talking about “they”, I mentioned “we” … Patriotic conservatives who seem to be saber-rattling on this issue with increasing vehemence. Egged on by demagogic blowhards (Like Ted Cruz) for clicks. The whole thing seems overblown to me in the sense that I imagine the Border Patrol isn’t in a terrible hurry to take down that razer wire anyway.