#SCOTUS : Sold out again

The SCOTUS is starting to whine because their deeds are starting to catch up to them. The left is after them for overturning Roe V. Wade and we should be too.

The SCOTUS has sold the American people out time after time. They have made bad decisions going back well over a century that were based on political headwinds and selfish motivations instead of constitutional considerations. Appointed for life, the Justices rule as if they are Olympian Gods and we the people, their subjects to trifle with.

Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857): Hands down the worst Supreme Court decision ever, Dred Scott held that African Americans, whether free men or slaves, could not be considered American citizens. The ruling undid the Missouri Compromise, barred laws that would free slaves, and all but guaranteed that there would be no political solution to slavery. The opinion even included a ridiculous “parade of horribles” that would appear if Scott were recognized as a citizen, unspeakable scenarios like African Americans being able to vacation, hold public meetings, and exercise their free speech rights. (*)

Buck v. Bell (1927): The Court declared in this terrible decision which still stands as good law. In an 8-1 decision written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Court upheld the forced sterilization of those with intellectual disabilities “for the protection and health of the state.” Justice Holmes ruled that “society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind” and ended the opinion by declaring that “three generations of imbeciles are enough. (*)

Korematsu v. United States (1944): Here, the Supreme Court upheld the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, finding that the need to protect against espionage outweighed the individual rights of American citizens. In a cruel and ironic twist, this was also the first time the Court applied strict scrutiny to racial discrimination by the U.S. government, belying the idea that strict scrutiny is “strict in theory, fatal in fact. (*)

United States v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174 (1939), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that involved a Second Amendment to the United States Constitution challenge to the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA). The decision was based on the fact that Miller crossed state lines with a sawed off shotgun. The ruling was made thus :” The Court cannot take judicial notice that a shotgun having a barrel less than 18 inches long has today any reasonable relation to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, and therefore cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees to the citizen the right to keep and bear such a weapon.” The decision was based on no modern military employing sawed off shotguns with barrels under 18″

Roe v. Wade was a landmark legal decision issued on January 22, 1973, in which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas statute banning abortion, effectively legalizing the procedure across the United States. The court held that a woman’s right to an abortion was implicit in the right to privacy protected by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Roe is one of the best (Or worst) examples of a decision based on political expediency rather than constitutionality. Time after time the court has ruled against privacy where the Governments interests are at stake . The court ruled in what appeared to be a blatantly political decision designed to steer our culture to the left and popularize themselves in history. Rehnquist in his dissent stated ” To reach its result, the Court necessarily has had to find within the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment a right that was apparently completely unknown to the drafters of the Amendment. As early as 1821, the first state law dealing directly with abortion was enacted by the Connecticut Legislature. Conn. Stat., Tit. 20, §§ 14, 16. By the time of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, there were at least 36 laws enacted by state or territorial legislatures limiting abortion.”

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization — a case involving a challenge to a Mississippi ban on abortion at 15 weeks of pregnancy. The ruling overturned Roe — ending the federal constitutional right to abortion in the United States.

As with Roe, Dobbs is a politically charged and polarizing decision.The timing of the decision , just before the midterm election and the subsequent media leak, stink to high heaven of malfeasance on the highest level. The court has lost any credibility that it may have had with either side of the debate.

I am convinced that the 2022 election, which was trending overwhelmingly red, was intentionally scuttled by the SCOTUS.This court has been steering our country hard left with it’s decisions since the sixties. The court rules not by constitutional conscience but by political Diktat at the whim of the Federal Govt.

Ever since Roosevelt’s court packing scheme and “The switch in time to save nine”it has been fairly obvious that the court are patsies for the Federal Govt. Biden for that fact was echoing FDR even before he was installed and had a panel created to feel out the political waters for his own court packing scheme

Don’t be fooled into thinking that Dobbs was a solid decision that revisited Roe and overturned it to reverse a bad call. Dodd was a decision that was designed to create a national schism and influence the national elections. The court has been feeding red meat to both camps and stoking the fires of national division.

The court has become openly political and is now losing any facade of impartial judgement. The court is now worried that the left will make them accountable for their action when in fact it is the right they should be concerned about. If push comes to shove and all of this goes to hell in a hand basket, the SCOTUS is going to be chased down in the streets like South Americans thieves being dealt street justice.

With Dodd the SCOTUS has set us up for civil conflict as certainly as they did with Dred Scott. The option to fix this politically has been removed. We are on the road to war and when it all starts to roll, those who think that they have insulated themselves from the consequences of their actions are in for one Hell of a surprise.

(*) Findlaw.com