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A Rare Event
This is a truly rare event. I realized last night watching the swearing-in of our new supreme court justice, that this was the first time in my 72-year life that the Supreme Court had a recognizable conservative majority. Not the sometimes, maybe we will follow the constitution if the moon is blue type of the last several years, where O’Connor, then Kennedy, then Roberts voted conservative if it really didn’t matter in an existential manner that they were, but failed on some big cases.
I have hope the nominal 6-3 majority may actually follow the constitution most of the time, if one or more justices don’t “grow” in office, or the Dems don’t with both the Presidency and Senate and pack the court. For a conservative, the last time this might have been the case was prior to 1936 when Roosevelt started winning court decisions.
I, of course, don’t know yet if one or more of these justices will renege on the possibility, but I have hope. I don’t expect that they will suddenly overrule previous critical cases, but at a minimum, the loss of freedoms may slow, or even be slightly reversed. One hopes the states gain a bit of power and the Federal Government loses some.
In particular, the administrative state should be trimmed (a lot in my view), the loss of religious freedom should be stopped. In my wild hopes, they can go further and stop expanding group rights at the expense of individual rights.
The constitution is a document that limits the Federal Power, not enables it. Maybe the forgotten ninth and tenth amendments can get a little bite? Maybe the drift toward enforced equality of outcomes can be stopped and equality of opportunity enforced instead? I sure hope so.
Equality of outcome is the most dangerous direction the court has been drifting. The only way that can be achieved is through government force at the expense of individual liberty. The end result is a complete tyranny, where we only have what the government says we can have, do what the government says we can do, live where and how the government says we can. This is where we have been heading and I pray it can be reversed.
The importance of this election cannot be overstated. All of this takes time and can be killed before it can have any true effect. If we can win this one, it will be immediately time to worry about the next. I would like a country where both major parties liked the country and supported it but we are a long way from that at this point.
There is another way this is rare. I think this is the first message thread I have started in a few years, at least with any substance!
Published in Politics
Four more years.
Twelve More Years! 🤣
I know a lot of guys who try to one up me, but eight up me? You gots some big ones on you.
If Biden wins and the Senate goes D you can enjoy it for the next few months.
I still can’t bring myself to believe this. I can’t wait to see how the new court performs.
Will Roberts’ hijinx be rendered obsolete? Is this really happening !?!
It is folly to assume that all decisions will go our way, but we ought to get a lot more majority opinions written by Thomas, which is just fine by me.