Dear Friends,
It seems to me, the role of our modern courts, is to outsmart the plain wording of our Constitution. Calling naked despotism “constitutional.” Early Twentieth Century progressives created this innovation. Take Buck v Bell, which was cited a multitude of times as legal justification under US law… during the Nuremberg Nazi trials of crimes against humanity. One thing I’ve noticed, when a court is outsmarting the plain wording of our Constitution, they argue below the level of the question. Is what she did legal, then the courts outsmart the law by ruling she was innocent, because of political favor. This trend has accelerated, now our courts couldn’t care less about the plain wording of our Constitution, precedent or the law. They rule the nation from the bench with the deep state as partner.
Examples abound of SCOTUS outsmarting the plain wording of our Constitution. Korematsu gave FDR unlimited power to incarcerate American citizens without charge, trial or crime. A power, that if precedent is to be followed, still exists. Yet the courts have denied Trump even the authority to deport criminal illegal aliens. Let alone lock up American citizens by fiat. In this case, the courts outsmarted the plain wording of our Constitution then, and today are ignoring their own precedent, due to political favor. Wickard v Filburn expanded the Interstate Commerce Clause to give the federal government unlimited power to regulate. Which resulted in an unelected administrative state that has supplanted our Constitutional government. That’s the definition of outsmarting the plain wording of our Constitution!
The Fourth Amendment is utterly null and void with the innovation of income tax. With it, and the Constitutional amendment that allowed it, our right to privacy in our persons and papers was revoked. Today you and I stand naked before an almighty government. We’re now even required to self report. US courts have ruled, with a straight face, that you or I can be imaged in our homes through our own webcams, yet a police officer in public has a right to privacy. If we withdraw over six hundred dollars from the bank, the bank is required to report it to the government. This is a default regulation. Could anything be a more direct violation of the plain wording of the Fourth Amendment? You have to hand it to them, they have truly outsmarted the plain wording of our Constitution!
Today, our courts don’t address the actual legal questions, but political ones. Trump claims Biden’s pardons are illegal, since Biden wasn’t the one who issued them, but rather someone else did. Which means the question is, who has the power of the pardon? The elected President only, anyone in the executive with the autopen, or can the elected President delegate that authority? Instead, mark my words, the question will rotate on, what would Biden have wanted? Sidestepping the real question and addressing one that’s irrelevant. Though one that can sustain a narrative for the mockingbird media to run with. “Of course Biden would have wanted his family, Fauci and the rest pardoned!” will be the narrative. Expanding pardon power to anyone in the Executive Branch with an autopen.
All of which boils down to, our courts have taken up the dirty job of outsmarting the plain wording of our Constitution. United and dedicated to the effort, they’ve obliterated their reputation, destroyed the people’s faith in law, and perverted the law to political ends. Thrasymachus would be proud of them. Almost every ruling expanding the power of the unelected deep state, at the expense of Constitutional government, our courts prove their worth to the usurpers every day. Indeed, if not for the diligent efforts of our courts outsmarting the plain wording of our constitution, we might have a limited government! Heavens to Betsy! Though, some might think that the right role of the courts is to protect and defend our Constitution… the racist jingoistic hatemongers.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
