Even Never Trumpers—the likes of Jonah Goldberg, Steve Hayes, Bill Kristol, Kevin Williamson and many others—are hoisting a celebratory glass to toast President Trump’s role in recent landmark cases concerning issues that have been conservative cornerstones for as long as half a century.
This in part from frontpagemag.com.
In just one year’s time we have witnessed:
The overturning of Roe v. Wade,
The Court forbidding the use of race (affirmative action) as an admissions factor at colleges and universities,
The Court ruling that conservative Christians have a free-speech right to refuse to provide some business services for same-sex marriages, and
The Court ruling that the President does not have the authority to forgive millions of student loans.
Of all the gloom and turpitude that we face and the expanding threats against our liberty under which we live, the good news coming from the Supreme Court should hearten us all.
And We the People must not overlook who is responsible for the emergence of the most conservative high court in our lifetimes—President Donald J. Trump.
Further, we must take this good news in conjunction with forewarning that the communists/globalists are metaphorically on fire—in a rage that will burn hot, bright, and long in duration.
The Left will be seeking retribution and an overturning of each of these decisions, which puts great pressure on the elections next November.
To the Left, everything is on the table—court packing, adding Senators, and imposing “emergency” measures on upcoming elections—we must not be naïve concerning the measures communists/globalists will take to reestablish control over the Judiciary.
Next thought: Of all the recent court decisions, there is one miss, and it is not at all immaterial or irrelevant. This being the Court’s decision on Moore v. Harper.
Article I, Section 4, Clause 1 in the U.S. Constitution clearly states:
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof.
The Constitution is very clear on this matter, or maybe it is just written in English too plain to understand. It doesn’t say the State Governor, the State Courts, or any other State actor. And yet the Supreme Court, with John Roberts and Bret Kavanaugh siding with the leftists, determined that it must mean something else. That the State Legislatures are not the arbiter and decider on federal elections in their States and that State Courts can intervene is not just unconstitutional but a recipe for disaster.
Why is this important? Of all the attacks on our freedom, the withering and destruction of our liberties, the one bulwark against this onslaught is not the next president, the next election, or some federal policy of lowering taxes or decreasing regulations.
That bulwark is the concept of Federalism, the preservation of the 10th Amendment and the entire edifice of State Sovereignty.
So long as we preserve that, we have a fighting chance of saving our Republic. Minus that, we are done, and it won’t matter who gets elected president, takes the Senate or any other magical machination in the halls of D.C. And yet the court in Moore v Harper, as with so many other cases, fell back on a (mis) reading of the 14th Amendment and the ‘Reductions Clause’ to ignore the clear intent of the Constitution.
Indeed, it is the overall misreading of the 14th Amendment, perhaps more than any other matter, that has put us in such a Constitutional crisis for this past half century. The preeminent book of scholarship on the 14th Amendment that has wrecked such havoc on our laws and freedom can be found in Raoul Berger’s, Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment. In his forward to the book, Forrest McDonald, Jr. wrote:
Berger…..learned and reported was that for the better part of a century the Supreme Court had been handing down decisions interpreting the Fourteenth Amendment improperly, willfully ignoring or willfully distorting the history of its enactment. More specifically, he found that the authors of the Amendment, far from contemplating a social and political revolution, as defenders of judicial activism maintained, intended only to protect the freedmen from southern Black Codes that threatened to return them to slavery. More specifically yet, Berger found that the two key passages in the Fourteenth Amendment—privileges or immunities of citizens and due process of law—far from being vague and elastic, as activists maintained, were ‘terms of art’ that had precise, well-understood, and narrow legal meanings. ‘Equal protection,’ a new concept, was identified by the framers with the right to contract, to own property, and to have access to the courts.
Anyone who may currently question the birthright citizenship clause from the 14th Amendment, is now facing disbarment and possible jail time. Woe be to the true patriots.
This misstep of Roberts and Kavanagh is not a small one and will need to be addressed at some time in the future—God willing sooner than later. This decision may fall into the shadow of these other most favorably resulting cases, but the possible earth-changing impact of what the court has done in the past year, has been clouded by this one decision.
Ronald Reagan famously stated:
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
This is truer now than ever, given the Left’s relentless attacks on our liberty forcing us to fight each and every day to stand for liberty and resist this assault on our freedoms.
In conclusion, a most sincere note of gratitude to our 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. Cheers!
He single-handedly—notedly with the aid of other conservatives and despite the opposition of the uniparty—changed the course and direction of the Supreme Court, helping to ensure the preservation and protection of our blessed Constitution.
May God bless President Trump and keep him safe.
