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That’s pretty much the summary of it all.  I’m quite disappointed, but not surprised at all, at the Supreme Court’s ruling about birthright citizenship.

It’s the third rail of American law: that EVERYONE born on American soil must therefore be an American citizen.  The high court had the opportunity to rectify that assumption.  But that requires a boldness and adherence to the Constitution as written that is all too absent from the halls of government in our era.

As I’ve come to understand it the 14th Amendment applies to people born to those who are already under American jurisdiction, and at the time that was indeed former slaves and their children.  Those born to foreign citizens while in America are subjects of those foreign places.  The amendment is pretty clear on that.

Thomas, Gorsuch, and Alito are correct in this case.  But the politics of the matter was too much ...

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This is a good day to be a sensible American.

This morning the Supreme Court handed down some rulings and I was looking forward to seeing how they would go.  I am not disappointed at all.

Mahmoud v. Taylor is the case out of Maryland involving parents who wanted to opt out of having their children exposed to homosexual material in public school.  The justices went 6 to 3 in favor of the parents.  It’s a magnificent win for parental rights regarding their children.

It should have been a unanimous ruling though.  I’m going to be looking for the minority opinion.  As many would guess the three dissenting justices were Kagan, Sotomayor, and “I don’t know what a woman is” Brown.

And then there is the situation involving the Trump Administration and all of those federal judges who have been hitting the president with nationwide injunctions, effectively keeping ...

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Regarding Murthy v. Missouri: the Supreme Court decision yesterday about government coercing social media companies to censor users’ activity based on political content.  SCOTUS decided that the plaintiffs had no standing and dismissed the lawsuit.

This seems like a colossal victory for the government and social media companies.  HOWEVER…

The case was *not* dismissed.  Today’s ruling dealt with the temporary injunction in the case, not the case itself.  The case was REMANDED, back down the legal chain.  It could still come before the high court where the plaintiffs can better frame their arguments with solid evidence of coercion and censorship.

I believe that such a thing is not only possible, it is almost guaranteed to happen.

Twitter, or X as it’s called now, is going to be VERY interesting to watch as it pertains to the case.  When Murthy v. Missouri was first filed it was confronting ...

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Today is the REAL “Juneteenth”.

Behold the wild celebration outside the United States Supreme Court a few hours ago, as pro-life activists uncorked the champagne and raised a toast to the overturning of Roe v Wade:

This gentleman is Scott Stewart.  He is the Solicitor General for the state of Mississippi.  He is the attorney who argued before the Supreme Court that Roe should be overturned in the case of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health:

Well done, counselor!

 

This is Nancy Pelosi.  She claims to be a good Catholic but she’s not really.  Why?  Because she believes unborn children can be killed in the womb.  Here you see her weeping bitter tears after the Dobbs decision was handed down:

 

 

I’m not going to bother posting a picture of President Biden.  He’s not a real president anyway.

This is the man who sent ...

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 I’m seeing a lot of outrage about the leaked draft of the majority opinion overturning Roe v Wade. Much anger about destroying a “right” to abortion. But for all their screaming these people are showing us that they have NO grasp whatsoever of what they are screaming about.

Justice Alito’s draft does NOT end the right to abortion. It does however articulate that the federal government has no standing in establishing such a right. The opinion is of the belief that Roe erred when it legislated into being a notion that the federal government had no constitutional basis in creating.
 
All that the majority opinion is arguing, if it is indeed the final say in the case at hand, is that the issue of abortion is one that per the Tenth Amendment is the sole province of the individual states. Which is exactly where it should have been
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Hmmm… let’s see…

This past week has seen the writing of my second-ever work of short story fiction (while stranded in a motel room along with Tammy the Pup during Hurricane Florence) after trying for decades to crack that art, work begun on a one-act play, finally started plotting a children’s book(?!?). And now, it’s article #5 written for American Thinker!

Has the Muse roared back from her exile, or what? For awhile I thought she had gone sailing off the cliff in a convertible accompanied by Dignity a’la Thelma and Louise, but anyhoo…

“There’s Poisoning the Well, and Then There’s Borking the Well” is my take on the Brett Kavanaugh nomination for the United States Supreme Court. However, that’s just the peripheral matter of a way bigger issue: that for sake of partisan power there are some – and I’m looking at you in particular, Senator Feinstein ...

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Look, I know about the guy’s role in the Saturday Night Massacre. There were a number of beliefs that he held to which I do now and always will vehemently disagree with, particularly with his stance on jury nullification. He also was way off about the Second Amendment, holding to the notion that it was intended for participating in government-sanctioned militias.

But I’ve also long believed that in spite of those and many more qualms about the man, Robert Bork truly – as best he understood – adhered to the highest principles in respect to law and the Constitution.

And claims from petty politicians (like Ted Kennedy) aside, it must be agreed by all: Bork was a brilliant jurist in every sense.

Judge Robert H. Bork passed away this morning at the age of 85.

Thoughts and prayers going out to his family.

And I have to wonder today – ...

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The United States Supreme Court is hearing the case today brought before it by Abigail Fisher, who is asserting that because of race-preferential policies at the University of Texas at Austin, she was denied enrollment at because she is white.

I want to put a question out there, because I think it’s more than valid:

If a member of a racial minority can easily become the President of the United States, then what use is there for academic admission or job-hiring practices that are based on racial preference?

Come to think of it, what use is there for the NAACP? I mean, seems like it’s pretty hard to advance much further than the White House. For anybody regardless of ethnicity, for that matter…...

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What. The. HELL?!?!?

HOW in the blue f–k is ANYTHING about Obamacare constitutional?!? What the #$%* are they smoking at the Supreme Court?!? Are they high on bath salts or something?!

Well, it’s not like this would be the first time that the Supreme Court screwed it up, is it?

The individual mandate just became the biggest tax imposition in the history of mankind. We are now living in a socialist state that would have made the Kremlin hardliners envious.

This country is soooooooo screwed....

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…and decided that the Second Amendment really DOES apply to EVERY part of the United States. In other words, it affirmed that citizens do have a basic right to keep and bear arms for purposes of self defense (and, I dare say, as an incentive against government getting too big for its britches).

Glad to see the Supremes finally nodding toward something that’s been public knowledge only since the Bill of Rights was ratified.

But in any case, this is a major victory for gun rights. Perhaps the tide is turning after all in this land....

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