{"id":92528,"date":"2023-05-06T07:37:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T12:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=92528"},"modified":"2023-05-06T07:37:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T12:37:26","slug":"92528","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=92528","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a wonder they&#8217;re so arrogant they openly publish this. They&#8217;re the &#8216;real&#8217; sedition and insurrectionists<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/5\/5\/2167711\/-Time-to-Go-After-Supreme-Court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Time to Go After Supreme Court<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the stories of \u201cjustices\u201d Roberts, Gorsuch, Alito, and Thomas appear every day in the paper, it appears there is some hesitancy on attacking the legitimacy of the Court.\u00a0 That needs to end.\u00a0 It is obvious that the Court will not be working for political rights, human rights, fair elections, or anything else for decades in the future.\u00a0 It is also obvious that they are just another branch of an oligarchic government.<\/p>\n<p>Some highlights of the Roberts Court.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens United \u2014\u00a0Yes, people with more money than they know what to do with should be allowed to use their money to influence elections.\u00a0 It was put forward as a free speech case, and money was equated with speech.\u00a0 As a constitutional originalist, my copy does not include a mention of money, and money was widely\u00a0used during the adoption of the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Shelby \u2014\u00a0Essentially, the Voting Rights Act was eliminated based on the Court saying it was no longer necessary.\u00a0 Amendment XV simply says the Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.\u00a0 No where does it mention the Court, and why with this explicit direction, does the court substitute its judgment for Congress\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Gun Cases -Heller \u2014\u00a0The Court is moving for unrestricted gun access.\u00a0 Now guns are described as appropriate means of self defense.\u00a0 However, my Constitution only describes well regulated militias, and the Court avoids the need or participation in militias as part of gun rights.<\/p>\n<p>Obamacare case \u2014\u00a0The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the law.\u00a0 However, they greatly constrained Medicaid expansion, and the case they heard was so zany it should not have been heard.<\/p>\n<p>Gerrymandering \u2014\u00a0The Court has essentially said gerrymandering is fine, no matter what.\u00a0 We are now picking legislators and Congressmen based on an election in 2010 which gave Republicans the opportunity to gerrymander for the next ten years, and based on them still being in office based on that gerrymander, they did it again in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Harding \u2014\u00a0The Court has shown a willingness to accept the legislative doctrine, which would essentially allow these gerrymandered legislators the opportunity to pick the President.<\/p>\n<p>Dobbs \u2014\u00a0Just based on the change in the Court based on some finagling by McConnell, and nominations by an impeached President, the Court essentially stripped a basic right from a majority of the population.<\/p>\n<p>Impreachment 1 \u2014\u00a0The Constitution directs the Chief Justice to preside over impeachments of the President.\u00a0 Roberts did not do this.\u00a0 Since the Senate could not pass a resolution allowing the calling of witnessed, there were no witnesses.\u00a0 Essentially,\u00a0 defense counsel with the support of Republican senators prevented witnesses from appearing.\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t presiding mean presiding, not showing up and sitting like a potted plant while members did crossword puzzles and left the room.<\/p>\n<p>For those of us with fond memories of the Warren Court, those days are long gone.\u00a0 We are not looking at a Court who is working for us!<\/p>\n<p>It is time for members of the Congress and Administration to challenge their legitimacy.\u00a0 They are not going to do anything for us, and we need to work to undermine that branch and that Court.<\/p>\n<p>1) Cut their money!<\/p>\n<p>2) Challenge their decisions, and if appropriate and useful, ignore them.<\/p>\n<p>3) Investigate the Court and publicize it to the nines.\u00a0 Why do we learn of their corruption from Pro Publica.\u00a0 Senate Judiciary should be all over them.<\/p>\n<p>There is no reason to respect the Court or its members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a wonder they&#8217;re so arrogant they openly publish this. They&#8217;re the &#8216;real&#8217; sedition and insurrectionists Time to Go After Supreme Court As the stories of \u201cjustices\u201d Roberts, Gorsuch, Alito, and Thomas appear every day in the paper, it appears there is some hesitancy on attacking the legitimacy of the Court.\u00a0 That needs to end.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=92528\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courts","category-enemies-foreign-domestic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92529,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92528\/revisions\/92529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}