Good for all of you who work to remind all of us about past and present dangerous usurpations of power by U.S. Supreme Court justices. Your work is crucial to helping us protect our rights and freedoms from the depredations of current SCOTUS justices. They are far beyond being merely "activist." They are deeply and dangerously anti-const…
Good for all of you who work to remind all of us about past and present dangerous usurpations of power by U.S. Supreme Court justices. Your work is crucial to helping us protect our rights and freedoms from the depredations of current SCOTUS justices. They are far beyond being merely "activist." They are deeply and dangerously anti-constitutionalist. They actively deceive Americans to rob and defraud us of our rights and the protections of the Constitution. The majority did it in Dobbs. They all did it in Trump v. Anderson. Some are doing it again in Trump v. United States.
SCOTUS justices who were more honest and more faithful public servants (in their famous and celebrated decision, New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964)) reminded us repeatedly of the words of James Madison. Madison ranks with Lincoln as among the best public servants we've ever had. He was the primary author of the Bill of Rights, and he was hailed as the Father of the Constitution for starting and shepherding the process of creating the Constitution. That decision (New York Times) is under dangerous and deceitful attack by some of these SCOTUS justices who want to silence critics (esp. Justices Thomas and Gorsuch). See https://blackcollarcrime.substack.com/p/who-cares-about-the-history-of-the?r=30ufvh.
SCOTUS in 1964 reminded us that Madison in 1794 (as a congressman reminding Congress of the true meaning of our Constitution) emphasized that "the censorial power is in the people over the Government, and not in the Government over the people." More importantly, SCOTUS reminded us that Madison in 1800 emphasized the most basic and crucial truth of our Constitution: "The people, not the government, possess the absolute sovereignty." The First Amendment merely secures and reminds us of how we can directly exercise our sovereignty.
Our entire Constitution (not merely the First Amendment) secures to us all "the right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon." It does so precisely because the right to think and speak for ourselves about our own government "has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every" American "right." If we don't exercise our right to self-government and act to rein in our purported public servants, then the Bill of Rights really will be as Madison warned, a mere "parchment barrier" against very real power-hungry despots.
All federal judges have sworn to "faithfully" "support and defend [our] Constitution" against "all enemies, foreign and domestic." See 5 U.S.C. 3331. That is the whole reason they hold their positions and collect their pay. They must defend our Constitution, not Trump. SCOTUS justices in 1964 (who did as they swore to do) reminded us in New York Times us that the primary purpose of the First Amendment was to secure "the privilege for the citizen-critic of government. It is as much his duty to criticize as it is the official’s duty to administer." They reminded us that all public officials (including SCOTUS justices and POTUS, too) are "public servants" who cannot logically or lawfully enjoy "an unjustified preference over the public they serve." That applies to our freedom to think and speak for ourselves, and it applies to holding Trump to the criminal law that he did (and SCOTUS does) hold us.
Good for all of you who work to remind all of us about past and present dangerous usurpations of power by U.S. Supreme Court justices. Your work is crucial to helping us protect our rights and freedoms from the depredations of current SCOTUS justices. They are far beyond being merely "activist." They are deeply and dangerously anti-constitutionalist. They actively deceive Americans to rob and defraud us of our rights and the protections of the Constitution. The majority did it in Dobbs. They all did it in Trump v. Anderson. Some are doing it again in Trump v. United States.
SCOTUS justices who were more honest and more faithful public servants (in their famous and celebrated decision, New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964)) reminded us repeatedly of the words of James Madison. Madison ranks with Lincoln as among the best public servants we've ever had. He was the primary author of the Bill of Rights, and he was hailed as the Father of the Constitution for starting and shepherding the process of creating the Constitution. That decision (New York Times) is under dangerous and deceitful attack by some of these SCOTUS justices who want to silence critics (esp. Justices Thomas and Gorsuch). See https://blackcollarcrime.substack.com/p/who-cares-about-the-history-of-the?r=30ufvh.
SCOTUS in 1964 reminded us that Madison in 1794 (as a congressman reminding Congress of the true meaning of our Constitution) emphasized that "the censorial power is in the people over the Government, and not in the Government over the people." More importantly, SCOTUS reminded us that Madison in 1800 emphasized the most basic and crucial truth of our Constitution: "The people, not the government, possess the absolute sovereignty." The First Amendment merely secures and reminds us of how we can directly exercise our sovereignty.
Our entire Constitution (not merely the First Amendment) secures to us all "the right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon." It does so precisely because the right to think and speak for ourselves about our own government "has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every" American "right." If we don't exercise our right to self-government and act to rein in our purported public servants, then the Bill of Rights really will be as Madison warned, a mere "parchment barrier" against very real power-hungry despots.
All federal judges have sworn to "faithfully" "support and defend [our] Constitution" against "all enemies, foreign and domestic." See 5 U.S.C. 3331. That is the whole reason they hold their positions and collect their pay. They must defend our Constitution, not Trump. SCOTUS justices in 1964 (who did as they swore to do) reminded us in New York Times us that the primary purpose of the First Amendment was to secure "the privilege for the citizen-critic of government. It is as much his duty to criticize as it is the official’s duty to administer." They reminded us that all public officials (including SCOTUS justices and POTUS, too) are "public servants" who cannot logically or lawfully enjoy "an unjustified preference over the public they serve." That applies to our freedom to think and speak for ourselves, and it applies to holding Trump to the criminal law that he did (and SCOTUS does) hold us.