*** Nothing in the Constitution allows a Supreme Court to unilaterally alter, neuter, destroy parts of it. Amending the
Constitution is done by Congress and the people.
***. Changing the Constitution is PRECISELY what the 2021022 Court has done to Amendments I and II.
***”Dobbs” alone is clear violation of Amendments I, II, IV, VIII, IX, and XIII.
***. By its 2005-2022 PATTERN, this Court has demonstrated how destructive and anti-democratic it is. It is now THE
#l threat to American democracy.
*** This Court, and the reactionary “think tanks” that feed it, have cooked up anti-historical LIES about what American
“tradition and history”. REALLY. are.
***. All this was PREDICTED, by John W. Dean”s 2007 “Broken Government. Chapter 3, “Third Branch” eerily says, with
close to 100% accuracy, exactly what has and is happening.
*** Perjury – or – prevarication? You decide. Multiple Senators said they were “misled” by one of the majority 6. Others
have, on the bench, contradicted themselves.
*** “Partisan political hacks” – or – judges? YOU. decide. Respecting 1787 – 2000. REAL. American legal norms, rules,
expectations, precedents – or – enacting a predetermined agenda? YOU decide.
By a series of decisions, this court attacked the “establishment clause” of Amendment I – reading “meanings” into it the Founders expressly OPPOSED. This court uses the “free exercise clause” to attack and weaken the “establishment clause.”
The Founders were ADAMANT they did NOT want any one or combination of churches to dictate how they ran their lives. WE have numerous speeches, some in Congress, many preceding the Constitutions on this. State constitutions, many preceding the Constitution, some of 1776, explicitly stated strict “separation of state and church.
The same people who wrote the Constitution also wrote state constitutions. Below is North Carolina, 1776, Articles XXXIV:
“That there shall be no establishment of anyone [sic] religious church or denomination in this State, in
preference to any other; neither shall any person, on any pretense whatsoever, be compelled to attend
any place of worship contrary to his own faith or judgment; nor be obliged to pay, for the purchase of
any glebe, or the building of any house of worship, or for the maintenance of any minister or ministry,
contrary to what he believes right”
THIS. is what “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..” REALLY MEANS.
The current “conservative” 6 majority has REPEATEDLY VIOLATED this explicit “original intent.” The culmination of a string of un-Constitutional decisions, “Dobbs vs Jackson Women’s Health,” imposes a specific RELIGIOUS ideology upon ALL Americans – regardless of THEIR own religious beliefs, or none at all.
“Dobbs” denies Americans a medical procedure, practiced around the world, that other religions have said THEIR faith allows. This is a blatant violation of the “free exercise clause.” No church can deny other faiths their practices.
“Dobbs,” dressed up in legal language, and selective historical opinion, is the culmination of a 50-year RELIGIOUS WAR by one religion, the one the 6 majority “justices” themselves belong to, to impose that religious view on ALL Americans.
All this is clearly, plainly, obviously, un-Constitutional, and, un-American.
“Dobbs” is a clear violation of Amendments I, III, IV, VIII, IX, XIII. The intent of Amendment III was people’s privacy in their home. Amendment IV: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons..” against unreasonable government violations of bodily integrity. “Dobbs” aids states in “mandatory motherhood” laws, which obviously violates Amendment VIII’s “..nor cruel & unusual punishments inflicted>. What is more cruel and unusual” than forcing a person to carry a possibly dying fetus to term – when that could mean the mother’s death, in addition to other harms? Amendment IX plainly states Americans have rights NOT enumerated in the Constitution. “Dobbs” violates Amendment XIII: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude..” “Dobbs” means an American is FORCED to become a slave of the state.
An attempt was made by the Court to paint this decision in legal and historical terms, a blatant attempt to obscure the driving force. Opposing abortion and contraception are. RELIGIOUS BELIEFS. Religious zealots pushing this agenda justified refusing to give people LEGL contraceptive prescriptions because it “violated their religious beliefs.” The Court, in “Hobby Lobby,” in violation of corporate law principles, granted a “closely held” corporation the ability to deny employees LEGAL prescriptions because of the owners’ “religious beliefs.”
In “Dobbs,” the Court claimed the medical procedure in question was “not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions.” This. FALSE. Abortion and contraception are 2000 years old; practiced in virtually every human society; practiced in America before and after the Constitution. Anti-abortion laws were pushed by MALE doctors, to prevent FEMALE midwives from practicing their historical craft; an illustration of MALE discrimination “tradition.”
Something IS. “deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions: “separation of church and state,” the right of citizens to practice their faith without government establishing an official, “established church” to dictate to them. This tradition goes back to 1636; was mentioned in 1776-1800 state constitutions. “Dobbs”. clearly VIOLATES this. It is “Dobbs” that violates American history and traditions, not the medical procedures it dislikes, for RELIGIOUS reasons.
This Court violated its own professed principles: not in the Constitution, not in American history and tradition, when it loosened controls on guns in public spaces.
This Court’s 2008, 2010, 2022 rulings are themselves RADICAL departures from ALL 1788-2007 American history and traditions controlling guns in public spaces.
In March, 2021, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals “said restrictions on carrying guns in public except for hunting do NOT violate the Second Amendment”…Judge Jay Bybee, appoint4d by President George W. Bush, wrote for the majority. He said review of more than 700 years American and English law showed government has long had power to regulate arms in public spaces. “We have NEVER assumed..individuals have..unfettered right to carry weapons in public spaces..”
The justices could have researched “history and traditions” of “the Old West.” Cowboys were required to check guns with the town marshal at city limits.
The justices might have consulted with an /english teacher. She would have said “tradition” and rules of grammar, REQUIRE one obtains correct meaning of a sentence – the Second Amendment – by including ALL words, NOT just half of them.
The 6 “justice” majority violates its own test: “originalism” – things supposedly only possible by the 1787 document’s specific words. By the easily KNOWN Founders’ “original intent” this Court has failed on its own terms.
1]. there is nothing in the Constitution that allows a Court, by itself, to alter, neuter, destroy parts of it. No “established
church” means means 6 justices cannot impose THEIR religious beliefs on America. No violation of “free exercise
means 6 “justices” cannot violate religious beliefs of other Americans. Taking an oath to support the Constitution
means 6 “justices” cannot violate Amendments I, III, IV, VIII, IX, XIII.
2]. 700 years of history and tradition regulating guns in public spaces is proof enough of “original intent.” Nobody said
American towns banning cowboys from shooting up their towns violated Second Amendment rights; importantly,
no previous Supreme Court did either>
The “justices” ignored 1792 “Militia Acts,” which OBLIGATED free, white, able-bodied males, 18-45, to join a militia.
The “justices” forgot rules of grammar. How could literalists of “original intent” jurisprudence omit a basic “textual”
literalism: using 100% of the “text’s”. words??????????
The majority 6 “justices” compounded other illegalities by being accomplices in the FARCE of some state delegating governmental authority to religious vigilantes, allowing civilians t track down, then prosecute “abortion criminals.” Where do the vigilantes claim their $10,000 reward? Do they confront “criminals” in their homes, threaten to cart off vehicles, damage property. if the “criminals” don’t voluntarily hand over $10,000??? How does all this uphold the “justices'” Constitutional requirement to “establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility..promote the general Welfare”???
If one is threatened in their home by strangers in a “stand your ground” state, do they have rights to defend themselves??? How does censoring mail, preventing people leaving a state “for the wrong reasons,” prosecuting people in OTHER states uphold “history and tradition” of America???
Where is all of this in the Constitution??? What is the difference between Nazi “Brown Shirts” and American religious zealot vigilantes?????
“Dred Scott” led to Civil War.” Will “Dobbs”????? Having completed their “work,” do the 6 “conservative” Supreme Court majority members even care? One said they were ignoring what YOU thought. oo
With Justice For All 