VI. Amending the Constitution. This “court” has violated Article V”. the process for amending the Constitution. NO Supreme Court can amend [change, alter, delete, add provisions to] the Constitution. This “court” by direct attacks on several Amendments, HAS attempted to, in REALITY, amend the Constitution.

Article V: “The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary shall propose amendments…or, on Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a convention for proposing Amendments..”
The Supreme Court, ANY Supreme Court, is NOWHERE listed in this – meaning the Court has ABSOLUTELY NO POWER over changing, i.e., amending the Constitution. Dictionary definition, amend: “to modify, rephrase, or add to or subtract from..”

***”Judges are but men, and in all ages have shown a fair share of frailty. Alas! Alas! The worst crimes in history have been perpetrated under their sanction..” [Charles Sumner, Massachusetts Republican]

The Roberts-McConnell-Leo-Trump “supreme court” has been DOCUMENTED in amending the Constitution in several ways; below are just a few of their methods, as reported by legal scholars and analysts:
1] Ronald Dworkin, “The Supreme Court Phalanx”: “..the new conservative phalanx overruled an amazing number of past decisions..in many cases without admitting..they were doing so…Alito, Roberts, Scalia, and Thomas are judges on a mission: to destroy the impressive constitutional structure that long succession of prior judges have built and shaped in the decades following the Second World War..These four justices do not represent the..jurisprudence of most American constitutional scholars.”

2] Access to courts is provided by Amendments V, Vi, Vii. Other constitutional rights provided in Amendments I, III, IV, VIII, IX, XIII, XIV, XV. Erwin Chemerinsky’s “Closing the Courthouse Door How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable” documents case after case how the Roberts-McConnell-Leo-Trump “supreme court” has managed to limit and REDEFINE AWAY citizen’s access to these rights. Rights mean NOTHING if one can’t actually use them – a major Roberts “court” strategy [they exist on paper, but YOU can’t actually use them – diabolical]

3] Federalist Society 2018 conference, Senator Mike Lee Utah: “..urged conservatives “to chart a new course. The good news is that, thanks to President Donald Trump and the Republican Senate majority, we have a Supreme Court that should be ready to do its part in this project.” “Pro-firearms groups, which had spent millions toward Kavanaugh’s confirmation, were disappointed..his first term didn’t bring the gun rights victories they’d bank on…The Roberts Court continued to chip at the wall between church and state, and to favor those who didn’t want to comply with federal laws that conflict with their beliefs.” [Jackie Calmes, “Dissent. The Radicalization of the Republican Party and Its Capture Of The Court”]

4] “Shelby County”: “The majority based its opinion on novel constitutional grounds..”equal sovereignty”… The principles ..Congress must treat all the states in the same way was at odds with the usual understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment.” [Joan Biskopic, “The Chief”]

5] “Hobby Lobby” The decision, “marking for the first time the justices found that secular corporations held religious rights..” [Biskopic, “The Chief”]

6] “Trinity” “..the Court..declared for the first time..the Constitution’s guarantees of the free exercise of religion required public funding of a religious entity.” [Biskopic, “The Chief”]

7] *** “This Case Shouldn’t Be With The Supreme Court” [New York Times, 12/11/22, editorial]: “The most important case for American democracy” in the nation’s history, conservative icon former judge, J.Michael Luttig, on ‘Moore v. Harper’.”
The case is about the WACKO “independent state legislature theory.” Naturally, it is favored by THE three most reactionary and antidemocratic Republican “justices.” “Justice Elena Kagan rejected the theory out of hand, saying it “gets rid of the normal checks and balances on the way big governmental decisions are made in this country.” Under this theory, which has “no basis in law, history or precedent,” a state legislature could become dictator in any state, on that state’s issues, on presidential electors. This could become THE ultimate “amending of the Constitution.”
Times editorial: “Another way to appreciate the absurdity of the theory is to consider who has come out for and against it. [The opposition] is “a large and bipartisan group of judges, government officials, former lawmakers, leading historians and constitutional scholars from across the political spectrum have rejected it. These include a co-founder of the right-wing group of the Federalist Society, the chief justices of all 50 states, multiple Republican former governors and secretaries of state and civil rights groups. On the other side, you will find a far smaller and less bipartisan cast of characters – among them, the Republican National Committee, a group of Republican state attorneys general and John Eastman..”

8]. “Modern constitutional law as we have known it ended Friday. When the Supreme Court overturned Roe..” [Noah Feldman; 6/26/22; “Originalism was supposed to deliver judicial restraint. It doesn’t”; New York Times]

9] “..it’s clear that over the years the Supreme Court has become yet another partisan institution – and one that’s unaccountable to the American people..it’s hard to see the court’s aggressive moves to remake constitutional law as anything but antidemocratic. the fight to undo Roe..has been a fight to remake our country – and it has succeeded.” [Mary Ziegler; 6/25/22; New York Times: “The Battle to End Roe Has Changed Democracy”]

10] “Once religious freedom is weaponized, they’ll carry it into every other legal fight..public health measures and civil rights laws..license to harm others won’t end with discrimination against LGBTQ..reestablish white supremacy..the fight for voting rights..violate traffic laws..private religious schools at taxpayer expense.. deny bodily autonomy to lesser groups and reproductive freedom to people deemed subservient…Most importantly..declare unconstitutional any failure to recognize these privileges..To declare that equality is hostility..” This “reorients First Amendment religious clauses…NRA “rewriting the Second Amendment succeeded” in 2008 “Heller”…shadow docket use “rewrote the First Amendment.” In “Espinoza”, “Roberts redefined state and church separation.” [Andrew Seidel: “American Crusade”]

11] “The Roberts Court has given major corporations sweeping power to immunize themselves…A Republican Supreme Court will fundamentally alter the structure of the American system of government, and who is allowed to exercise power within that system..Partisan gerrymanders..violate the First Amendment.. The Supreme Court ..permitted redistricting laws that transformed legislative elections into little more than a formality..because Republicans were all but certain to win no matter what voters decided.” [Ian Millhiser: “The Agenda How A Republican Supreme Court Is Reshaping America”]

12]. “..the Court has..drastically changed its jurisdiction and procedures, most importantly with the rise of the emergency, or “shadow” docket..that allows the justices to intervene in lower court cases at any point it chooses, awarding “provisional” victories to favored litigants..The shadow docket has become a kind of appellate star chamber..closed to the public or the parties, and aggressively wielded in aid of the Court’s reactionary project.” [Garrett Epps: “The Court’s Third Great Crisis”; November/December, 2022; Washington Monthly]

13]. “Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority that while Miranda rights have “roots” in the Constitution, “a violation of Miranda does not necessarily constitute a violation of the Constitution.” Alito: “[a]llowing the victim of a Miranda violation to sue a police officer for damages would have little deterrent value, and permitting such claims would cause many problems..” [!!!!!!!!!!] {Sacramento Bee editorial: SCOTUS undermines rights of suspects,” 7/7/22]

14]. “The Supreme Court on Tuesday embraced a vision of the Second Amendment that is profoundly at odds with precedent and the dangers that American communities face today..It was only in 2008..with its decision in ..Heller, that conservatives on the court divined an individual right to bear arms hidden somewhere in the 27 words of the Second Amendment.” [6/26/22, New York Times editorial: “Placing Gun Rights Above Human Life”]

15] Justice Kagan accused the majority of inventing standards to achieve its goals in the EPA case: “The current Court is textualist only when being so suits it. When that method would frustrate broader goals, special cannons like the ‘major questions doctrine’ magically appear as get-out-of-text-free cards.” [Robert Barnes; 7/10/22, Washington Post Weekly: “Supreme Court upheaval is swift, sweeping”]

16]. “The court could announce a set of rules hat, together, read the Constitution to allow virtually no consideration of race, regardless of the purpose or goals.” Kate Shaw, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law professor. [Adam Liptak; 10/3/22 New York Times: “Race Has Role in Major Cases Before Justices”]

***** Very Important: YOU must examine the above, see THE PATTERN!!!!!!, and BEGIN to understand the MOUNTAIN of evidence NOT presented here on how the Roberts-McConnell-Leo-Trump “court” has been AMENDING THE. CONSTITUTION. by judicial fiat. Do YOUR own research, from mainstream legal sources. Ask. YOURSELF: WHY have all these people said this broad PATTERN of accusations against the Roberts “court”? Do they ALL. “hate America”? Are they ALL. out to get this particular ‘court”?

America is now whatever “democracy” it is or isn’t because of positive reforms [improvements, not just changes] made since 1901 on virtually everything. America became the envy of the world because of all these positive changes enabling more human dignity – to the point that people from around the world are, literally, dying. to share this.

The economic-political-religious-social “right” has been engaged in a determined, very well funded, counter-revolution against all the “democratic’ improvements these real reforms made possible. They have succeeded rolling back much of the democratic reforms enacted, 1901– .
Unable to get much of their agenda through democratic state legislatures and Congress, they have resorted. – BY THEIR OWN CONFESSIONS – to the judicial system, most especially the Supreme Court.
Again, by THEIR OWN CONFESSIONS – they have weaponized the judicial system – making a mockery of the motto above the Supreme Court’s own entrance, making a mockery of their own oaths of office.

They have also made a mockery of the Constitution itself. They have, in fact, illegally amended the Constitution: by redefining rights out of it, by. putting rights into it [for favored groups].

***St. Augustine: “An unjust law is no law at all.”

***Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

V. “not in the Constitution.” The infamous Dred Scott, II decision – otherwise known as “Dobbs” – stressed abortion was not, could not , be protected because it “was not in the Constitution.”

Roberts “court” versus the Constitution, Amendment IX: “The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”
“Not in the Constitution” is null and void by Amendment IX alone. Period. End of discussion.

Benjamin Rush [11/30/1787]: at Pennsylvania ratification convention: “Our rights are not yet all known, how then could they be properly enumerated?”

Abortion has much company not being in the U.S. Constitution.
– “God” is not in the Constitution. Therefore we must conclude “God” doesn’t exist.
– “Woman ” is not in the Constitution. Therefore, “women” don’t exist
– “Sex” is not in the Constitution. Therefore all you males [apparently alone on earth] can not, must not have sex.
– “Marriage” is not in the Constitution – therefore cannot exist.
– “Reproduction” is not in the Constitution. Therefore you males must not, can not reproduce yourselves.

“A 1956 statement by Southern members ofCongress who objected to “Brown”…made a similar point: “The original Constitution does not mention education.” [Adam Liptak, 8/2/22, New York Times: “The Abortion Decision, Haunted by Brown v. Board of Education”]. This may explain why there are so many ignorant males.

Also not in the Constitution: aspirin, anti-biotics, dentists, doctors, nurses, hospitals, crutches, eye glasses, surgery – which means YOU can not have use of them – because they can’t exist!!!!!!!!!!!!

“The Constitution makes reference to voting 15 times in the original document and another 22 in amendments. But “..none of those mentions makes an explicit declaration that Americans have a specific right to vote..The authors of the Constitution, many..deeply suspicious of universal suffrage..most of the founding fathers wanted to limit voting rights of property owners…James Madison warned that voting should be restricted to the wealthy.” [Michael Wines, 10/27/22, New York Tiles: “Does the Constitution Guarantee a Right to Vote? The Answer May Surprise You”]

Also not in the Constitution, therefore do not exist: cars, jet planes, indoor plumbing, modern heating/AC, radio, TV, internet, store-bought clothes, refrigerators, microwaves, modern stoves, electric lights & appliances – essentially YOU are not allow to enjoy 2lst century life as you know it…because: “It’s not in the Constitution.”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also not in the Constitution, many terms and concepts of crucial importance to constitutional law: fair trial, executive agreement, beyond reasonable doubt, spending power, clear & present danger, cross-examination, “separation of church & state,” war powers, exigent circumstances, public purpose, “separate but equal.” presumption of innocence, equal justice, right to privacy, right to travel, right to silence… [Leonard Levy: “Original Intent and The Framer’s Constitution”]

Chief Justice John Marshall [Bank of the United States”]: “A Constitution, from its nature, deals in generals, not in detail. Its framers cannot perceive minute distinctions which arise in the progress of the nation, and therefore confine it to the establishment of broad and general principles.”
“Broad and general principles..” – NOT. word parsing and cherry-picking. NOT twisted falsehoods.

James Wilson, 1787 Philadelphia: “…we are providing a Constitution for future generations, not merely for the peculiar circumstance of the moment.”

Consider the following, from the writers of the Constitution:
– during the 1791 House bank debate: Representative John Vining [del] summarily dismissed “original intent” as the “opinion” of 1787, which he thought had BECOME OBSOLETE: “not sufficient authority..for Congress at the present time to construe the Constitution.”
– during the 1796 House treaty debate, Albert Gallatin [Pa]: the only opinions about the meanings of the text Gallatin endorsed were those of the ratifying conventions who favored ratification : because they alone, acting on behalf of the people, adopted the Constitution..”
– James Madison, 1824: “our Constitution is already undergoing interpretations unknown to its founders…Some of the terms of the Federal Constitution have already undergone perceptual deviations from their original import.”

Within 35 years of its adoption, the U.S. Constitution has ALREADY been changed by the PEOPLE WHO WROTE IT!!!!!!!
By things NOT in it. By interpretations different “from their original import.”
So – how much credence should YOU gave “justice” Alito’s claim “not in the Constitution” “discovery” 235 years later? 235 years after numerous other Supreme Courts had failed to see Alito’s “wisdom”?

It gets worse.

The infamous “Dobbs” decision opinion: “The inescapable conclusion is that a right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions. On the contrary, an unbroken tradition on prohibition of abortion on pain of punishment persisted from the earliest days of the common law until 1973.”

Below SOME of THE REAL HISTORICAL TRUTH. How embarrassing the “supreme court” doesn’t know:

World Book Encyclopedia: “Before the 1800s, there were few organized religious or legal obstacles to abortion prior to quickening..In the United States, abortion before quickening was not an offense under common law before the mid-1800s…Some courts, however, refused to impose penalties for early abortion even after the passage of these laws.”

Wikipedia: “Abortion has existed in North America since the European colonization of the Americas, was a fairly common practice, and was not always illegal or controversial.”
“By common law, abortion was legal, and only after quickening it was not allowed [14-26 weeks, between 4th and 6th month]. Its determination was usually at the discretion of the pregnant woman, but the rules were unsettled or unclear in written statutes.”
“When the U.S. became independent, must U.S. states continued to apply English common law to abortion.”
Legal scholar Sheldon Gaman: “The right to bodily integrity including abortion can be traced back to the Magna Carta, which was imported in the U.S. Constitution from English law.”
Connecticut was the first state to regulate abortion in 1821.”
“In 1859, abortion was not a crime in 21 of 33 states…this changed starting in the 1860s under influence of anti-imigrant, Catholic sentiment.”
By the 1930s, licensed doctors performed an estimated 800,000 abortions a year.
Decriminalization began in 1967; by 1973, abortion was legal in 20 states.
Roe “returned abortion to its liberalized pre-1820 status.”

C.A.P., abortion – “Scarlet Letters”. [R.Dine interview]:
“If a woman living in New England in the 17th and 18th centuries wanted an abortion, no legal, social, or religious force would have stopped her.”
“Anti-abortion organizations such as the National Right to Life spin a narrative in which legal abortion is a historical anomaly and an unnatural consequence of America’s loose moral standards…Their “abortion history timeline describes ‘a few rogue doctors and midwives’ performing abortions in early America, only as far back as the 1850s…In reality, trusted midwives and medical practioners performed abortions from the beginning of American colonial life and throughout world history.”
“When the Constitution was written, abortion was legal until quickening>”
“The Puritans brought their views on abortion from..England, where the procedure was legal until quickening.”
“..early American medical books even gave instructions for ‘suppressing the courses,’ on inducing abortion.”
Mid-19th century male doctors “began to belittle ‘irregular’ doctors such as homeopaths and midwives, in an attempt to assert the authority and legitimacy of male-dominated scientific medical ..”scientific” physicians attacked legal abortion but it was midwives and other ‘unscientific’ medical practioners who safely performed the procedure.”
“..since ancient timers, women have [used] a variety of contraceptive methods beyond abortion..”

The above is only a BEGINNING to the REFUTATION of the infamous “Dobbs” assertion that abortion is not “deeply rooted’ in American history and tradition. Abortion and contraception are deeply rooted in human history; in American colonization; in English law dating to the Magna Carta. was widely, legally, practiced, not even regulated until 1821; not a crime in w21 states in 1859.
Ask YOURSELF this: how can the U.S. “supreme court,” in 2022, not know the above encyclopedia FACTS?????????? With all their resources, how is this possible. YOU can go online – and look this up!!!!!!!!!

Unless they DIDN’T want to know? Unless they DIDN’T want. YOU to know?

Bottom line truth: opposition to abortion and contraception comes from fundamentalist religions, seeking to impose THEIR. religious beliefs on ALL Americans by “supreme court” fiat.
THIS is plainly unConstitutional by the language of the 1787 federal Constitution and Amendments, and – unknown to too many American – the 1776-1800 state constitutions which preceded it. There is also much 1770-1800 documented evidence from many people, including respected religious leaders – demanding “separation of church and state. A major, TOP FEAR of ordinary Americans in this era: being told what to do by a church they DIDN’T attend.

NOTHING is more unConstitutional, more unAmerican, in all recorded American history and tradition – than the imposition of religious beliefs on YOU by a church YOU don’t attend. To prevent this, the First Amendment was written. The Roberts “court’ has managed to twist this into what the Founders were absolutely against.

Would YOU buy a used car from any of the 6 current Republican “justices”?????? If even tempted – check first to see if it has 4 tires, then under the hood – does it have an engine? Do. they even own the car? How true is the reported mileage? How many accidents has it been in?i

III. “Originalism” / “Textualism” – is a cooked-up “theory” purporting to tell us what the Framers “really” intended. It is GARBAGE. It is a FRAUD. It is a JOKE. Worst of all, it is a BIG LIE.
Here we will examine two parts: one – the STUPID; two – the SINISTER. Which will only be the beginning of the MOUNTAIN of evidence – cases, rhetoric, studies, etc – that proves what JOKE, what a TRAVESTY of law “originalism” itself and right-wing [R-W] theories on law are. As some legal experts have said, if you believe in “originalism” / “Textualism” – then you also believe in the Tooth Fairy.

“The popular myth of “original intent” rests on the notion..there is somehow a single “clear” intent hidden in each phrase of the Constitution. [The phrase “clear intent”…ought to serve as a warning that an attempt to pick your pocket is in progress.]. That idea confuses the task of reading the Constitution with the work of a Protestant believer reading the Bible.” [Garrett Epps: “Wrong And Dangerous. Ten Right-Wing Myths About Our Constitution”]

Leonard Levy: “Original Intent and The Framers Constitution”:
-June 16-17, 1789 House debates: “Members of the House who had attended the Convention divided on [original intent]; none invoked the authority of the Convention..No one asked those who had been in Philadelphia what the Convention thought of the issue [executive power]..”
– Madison [9/l5/1821] rejected original intent of Framers as authoritative guide to its meaning: “As a guide in expounding and applying the provisions of the Constitution that debate and incidental decisions of the Convention can have no authoritative character.”
– Justice Story [1833]: Commentators on the Constitution: “In different states..different and very opposite objections are known to have prevailed..there can be no certainty..the different state conventions in ratifying the Constitution, gave the same uniform interpretation to its language, or that, even in a single state convention, the same reasoning prevailed with the majority..”
– The definitive statement on a constitutional jurisprudence of original intent was made by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney in the Dred Scott case..” [prior to 1999, universally seen as THE worst Supreme Court ruling EVER]
– “The text is what counts, but the notion that it must be construed according to original intent is itself a prejudice. It is..a notion that lacks original intent..no evidence, not a shred, exists to show..the Framers meant, wanted, or expected future generations to construe the Constitution as they, the Framers, had.”
– Madison [1824]: “Our Constitution is already undergoing interpretations unknown to its founders..Some of the terms of the Federal Constitution have already undergone perceptible deviations from their original import.”

Jack Rakove: “Original Meanings”:
– “..originalism is vulnerable to two powerful criticisms..it is always in some fundamental sense anti-democratic, seeks to subordinate judgment of present generations to wisdom of distant [political] ancestors..the real problems of reconstructing coherent intentions and understandings from evidence of history raises serious questions..of originalist forays to yield definitive conclusions..”
– “..the notion..the Constitution had some fixed and well-known meaning at the moment of its adoption dissolves into a mirage..”
– Madison [4/6/1796]: questions about the Constitution’s meaning could be answered in light of ratification debates, but NOT by consulting Philadelphia framers’ intentions..”The instrument that came from them was nothing more than a draft of a plan, nothing but a dead letter, until life and validity were breathed into it by the voice of the people, speaking through the several state conventions.” ***[this ALONE, should end “originalism’ validity]
-Benjamin Rush, in the Pennsylvania convention [11/30/1787]: “Our rights are not yet all known, how then could they be properly enumerated.” **[are Thomas-Scalia-Alito calling Mr. Rush, who was there at creation a liar?????]

Garrett Epps, “Wrong and Dangerous,”: “..far right ‘originalism’..comprises a variety of techniques designed to eclipse the text and history of the Constitution and impose a specific meaning on each provision – a meaning that by coincidence usually matches the political program of the twenty-first century Right.”
1] “Everybody knows” originalism: “..by saying..’everybody knows’ what the framers really thought about a given subject, and thus the words on the page couldn’t mean what they seem to say.”
2] “Da Vinci C ode” originalism: “..conservative interpreters simply wipe out the words of the Constitution themselves and insist..they are a secret reference to other words.”
3]. “Voices in the Head” originalism: “..the interpreter confronts evidence..some members – perhaps most of – the founding generation did, in fact not interpret the Constitution in the way the right wing now needs it to be interpreted.”
4] “Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain” originalism: “If the evidence is strong, you simply deny..this particular framer is particularly important.” [“Madison’s view of church and state is very inconvenient for the Far Right, is often shuffled off stage..”]
5] “Foresight” originalism: “If all else fails, the Right abandons the idea of original “intent” or “meaning” and simply says..a given idea must be unconstitutional because the Founders would never have foreseen it.” [# one insult for governmental act: “unprecedented”]

**** Now we move from the merely STUPID of “originalism” to the more SINISTER…..
Question: WHY is the Far Right so determined to get us back to 1787????? Consider…

Jerry Fresia: “Toward an American Revolution”:
– From 1650-1750, the rich got richer, the poor got poorer. In 1770 Boston, the top 1% owned 44% of the wealth. Property qualifications were required to vote, in 1750 Pennsylvania that meant only 8% of rural men and 2% of Philadelphia men could vote. By 1760, there had been 18 rebellions against colonial government and 40 major protest riots. Tennant riots led to carving Vermont out of New York state. By 1776, 10% of the white population owned nearly 50% of the wealth.
– “Military Defeat of Common People: Shays Rebellion”: “a series of defiant and militant showdowns..between Framers and..common people in 12 of 13 states..choosing the direction..the new nation would move.”
-“..in ..[the] mind of..Framers, it was every man for himself.” TheFramers wanted “freedom from others and freedom to accumulate wealth.’ In a contractual economy power shifted to property owners. The state as coercive force “is the key to making the market system work.”
– Delegates to the 1787 Philadelphia Convention were chosen between 10/16/86 – 2/28/87, the height of rebellion. Madison: Shays Rebellion “contributed more to uneasiness which preceded..Convention..than those..from inadequacy of the Confederation..”
– “It is .. important to remember how swiftly the Framers turned to repressive measures to curb political expression when that expression did not accommodate their system of privilege.. Sam Adams engineered a Riot Act which prohibited twelve or more armed persons from congregating in public and which permitted county sheriffs to kill rioters.” Articles I and IV contain provisions against domestic violence.

Michael Parenti: “Democracy for the Few”:
– in 12 of 13 states, only property-owning White males could vote or hold office. Excluded; all Native Americans, persons of African descent, women, indentured servants, and White males without sufficient property. Property qualifications for holding office were so steep they excluded most White males who could vote. Absence of secret ballot and “of real choice among candidates and programs led to widespread apathy.”
– “Not long before the Constitutional Convention, the French charge d’affairs wrote his government; “Although there are no nobles in America, there is a class of men denominated ‘gentlemen.’..Almost all of them dreaded the efforts of the people to despoil them of their possessions, and moreover, they are creditors, and therefore interested in strengthening the government..it is for their interest to establish the credit of the United States in Europe..by the exact payments of debts, and to grant to Congress powers extensive enough to compel the people to contribute for this purpose.”
– “The framers [felt] democracy was ‘the worst of all political evils,’ as Elbridge Gerry put it. For Edmund Randolph, the country’s problems were caused by ‘the turbulence and follies of democracy.’ Roger Sherman concurred, ‘The people should have as little to do as may be about the Government..Alexander Hamilton..’The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right.’ .. George Washington..urged the delegates not to produce a document merely ‘to please the people.'”

SO – what would a “reasonable person” think about the desires of recent Republican “supreme court” “justices” to return to the “original intent” of the 1787 Constitution ? The world of 1787 was run by and controlled by wealthy white men. A vast majority of people – women [50%], minorities, “lesser’ whites’ had no power and little wealth. The recent Republican “supreme courts” are OBVIOUSLY asking America to go BACKWARDS. Why do that???????????

Michael Parenti: “In sum, the Constitution was consciously designed as a conservative document. elaborately equipped with a system of minority checks in order to resist the pressure of popular tides…For the Founders, liberty meant something different from and antithetical to democracy. It meant liberty to invest, speculate, trade, and accumulate wealth and to secure its possessions without encroachment by sovereign or populace.”

An America without the 27 Amendments would be a far different, far less ‘democratic’ country. The SINISTER aspect of “originalism” is that it seeks, by “supreme court’ fiat, to return America back to that status.

Examine the entire 1969-2022 PATTERN of the Republican dominated “supreme courts,” big and small. From major decisions alone: 2000 Bush-Gore; “Citizens United” and earlier decisions making buying elections a “right”; “Shelby County” gutting a 50-yer bipartisan voting act tat worked; INVENTING a personal gun ‘right’ – in the face of mounting gun violence; writing the “Establishment Clause” out of Amendment I – creating the equivalent of official tax-supported churches; creating a class of SUPER CITIZENS whose “religious rights” make them a law unto themselves; trying to gut the government’s regulatory powers to protect the public; giving corporations “rights.”

Republican appointed “supreme court justices” have made a MOCKERY of the law, the Constitution, American history. They have made America less safe, less democratic; but far more cruel and corrupt.

Want more? Read Samuel Marcosson’s “Original Sin” – which destroys “originalism, saying “..the jurisprudence of original intent..has failed on its own terms..” Make sure you read the “Noters.”
Read Ray Raphael”s “Constitutional Myths.” His chapter 8 DESTROYS “originalism in 22 pages and l2 pages of notes.

This isn’t rocket science – only a determination on YOUR part not to be lied to. Come on people – the world’ most advanced modern nation is supposed to live on 1787 terms? Are you kidding me?????
If we go back to 1787 – means YOU give up TV, computers, the internet, flush toilets, clean water, refrigerators, microwaves, cars, jet planes………………

Look above – the people who WROTE the Constitution – disagreed about what they had done, AT THE TIME!!!!!
People who WROTE the Constitution said, on paper, within a few years – the Constitution was ALREADY
being interpreted in ways that the authors had not said!!!!!!!!!!!

So a bunch of “political hacks,: sitting on the “supreme court”. 200 tears AFTER THE FACT. – are telling YOU – that THEY “know what the Framers meant. – even when it is OBVIOUS they are LYING.
How gullible aRE YOU??????????? I’ve got a bridge in the desert………

IV. Separation of church and state – is one of the oldest, if not THE oldest legal, governmental, constitutional, cultural norms in American history. PERIOD. It dates from Roger Williams in Puritan Massachusetts, 1636.
One of the Founders’ top 4 fears was religion. Their cures: 1776-1800 state constitutions, the Constitution’s Article VI, the First Amendment – all in very explicit language, especially the state constitutions.

This post exists for one reason: a long effort by the FAR RIGHT to obliterate “separation of church and state.” Their plan: LIE about what happened between 1636 and 1800. Below is only part of the MOUNTAIN OF EVIDENCE. You can also subscribe and read the monthly publication of “church & State” by Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

Oh yes. – one more thing, on the sinister side: look up the “14 characteristics of fascism.” One of them is a close connection between secular government and an official church. The Founders already knew of this – from centuries of religious persecution. The 1776-1800 constitutions are NOT an accident.

The Constitution has no references to gods, goddesses, or divine intervention. Civil War colonel, author, orator, Robert Ingersoll: “They knew to put God in the Constitution was to put man out. They knew..recognition of a Deity would be seized upon by fanatics and zealots as a pretext for destroying the liberty of thought..knew the terrible history of the church as well..”
The Constitution’s only references to religion are EXCLUSIONARY – Article Vi bans a religious test for office; the First Amendment EXCLUDES the state from involving itself in religion, EXCLUDES religion violating people’s rights. The Article VI ban is “the most emphatic statement in the document” [no, shall, ever, any]. Supreme Court Justice Story [1812-1845]: “It had a higher objective: to cut off forever every pretence of any alliance between church and state in the national government.”

George Washington to Virginia Baptist General Committee [5/10/1789]: “no one could be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny.. every man..ought to be protecting in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.” [any DOUBT about this????]
1785 Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom: no government support of religion {“sinful and tyrannical”]; no loss of citizen’s rights for religious beliefs; religious test for office banned.
In the 1787-88 debates on the Constitution: the Federalists NEVER cited the Bible, not once. Madison, 1785 “Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments”: “Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries.”

Ben Franklin [10/9/1780]: “When a religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and when it cannot support itself..it is a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.”
Congress [1/19/1829]: religious reasons did not and could not constitutionally motivate no Sunday mail delivery

Daniel Webster [3/4/1850]: warned against mixing religion and politics: “It is in the nature of man..his whole history, that religious disputes are apt to become warm..”

John Leland, Baptist evangelist: “Let every man speak freely without fear, maintain the principles that he believes, worship according to his own faith, either one God, three Gods, no God, or twenty Gods; and let the government protect him in doing so.” [any doubt what this respected man meant, and – when he said it????????]

Maryland legislature passed the “Religious Toleration Act” in 1649, protecting all “Trinitarian Christians.”
William Penn: Pennsylvania was to be a “holy experiment” in religious and civil freedoms.

Madison: “..Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise [and] every expanded prospect.
1774 Massachusetts resolution calling for the Continental Congress to not colonist’s need “for the recovery and establishment of their just rights and liberties, civil and religious.”

Sam Adams: “The Rights of the Colonists,” 1772: “As neither reason requires nor religion permits the contrary, every man living in or out of a state of civil society has a right peaceably and quietly to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience.” [any doubt what he means???????]

1776 Virginia “Declaration of Rights,” Article XVI: “That religion ..can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience.” [the “reasonable person” can see echos of Amendment I ]
Northwest Ordinance [7/l3/1787]: “No person demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments.” [note: this PRECEDES the Constitution]

At the Founding time – an established church meant a legal union of government and of religion – such as Roman Catholic in Spain, Presbyterian in Scotland, Lutheran in Sweden, etc. Compulsory attendance at state church, official creed taught in schools, tax support, etc.

Reverend William Tennant [So.Car.], 1777: “Petition of the Dissenters,” requesting the legal disestablishment of the Church of England [Prot. Episcopal Church]. The existence of an established church, Tennant declared, abridged the “free and equal liberty in religious matters..”

Leonard Levy: “The Establishment Clause. Religion and the First Amendment”:
– “To the generation that adopted the First Amendment an establishment had also come to mean..the financial support of religion generally, by public taxation.’
-“Evangelical demands for the separation of church and state, supported principally by Baptists and Presbyterians, ultimately prevailed in Virginia.”
-“Wilson, Randolph, Madison, and Spaight had attended the Constitutional Convention. Their remarks show that Congress was powerless, even in absence of the First Amendment to enact laws that benefited one religion or church in particular or all of them equally and impartially.”
-Madison [6/8/1789] “..proposed a series of amendments..The section on religion: “The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext, infringed.” [any doubt what was intended????]
-August 15, 1789 House discussion of religion, Mr. Madison..believed that the people feared one sect might obtain a pre-eminence, or two combine together, and establish a religion to which they would compel others to conform.” [ would our “reasonable person” see in machinations by the current “religious right” – that the fears of the American populace in1789 have now come to pass – especially by a right-wing stacked “supreme court’???????????]
– “the First Amendment was framed to deny power, not to vest it.”
-“..John Leland..a Baptist preacher..advocated a radical separation of government and religion..and he contended that any sort of establishment of Christianity, including all state establishments, were, “all of them, Anti-Christocracies.”
– “The founding principle..was one subscribed to by Jefferson, Madison, and Christian fundamentalists [in 1774-1802 petitions to the Virginia General Assembly]..that to require a person to support even the religion of his choice denied him his freedom of choice and his right to religious liberty.” [any doubt what was intended?????????]

The same generations that wrote the Constitution and bill of Rights also wrote state constitutions. The following are from Edwin Gaustad’s “Faith of the Founders,” pages l34-l45. Consider: 4 states banned a “religious test for office” [ article Vi]; 8 states banned an active minister from serving in their state government; nearly ALL had language banning “establishment of religion” [First Amendment].
– 1776 Delaware, Article 29: “There shall be no establishment of any one religious sect in this State in preference to another.” 1777 Georgia, Article KLVI: “All persons whatever shall have the free exercise of their religion..and shall not, unless by consent, support any teacher or teachers except those of their own profession.” [2022 U.S. “supreme court’ apparently ignorant of this??????]. 1776 Maryland, Article XXXIII: “All persons..are equally entitled to protection of their own profession. 1776 North Carolina, Article XXXIV: “..there shall be no establishment of anyone religious church or denomination..in preference to any other; neither shall any person, on any pretence whatsoever, be compelled to attend any place of worship contrary to his own faith..nor be obliged to pay..for the maintenance of any minister or ministry contrary to what he believes right.” [obviously, the Roberts “court” ignorant of this!!!!!!!!!!!!]. 1776 Pa, Declaration of Rights, II: “..all men have unalienable right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own conscience.”
1778 SoCar., Article XXXVIII: “No person, shall by law, be obliged to pay towards the maintenance and support of a religious worship that he does not freely join in..” 1777 Vermont, Declaration of Rights, III: “..no man ought..be compelled to attend any religious worship..support any place of worship, or maintain any minister, contrary to the dictates of his conscience..”
The above is what the First Amendment means. PERIOD.

To repeat: all the above are only SAMPLESa of MOUNTAINS of constitutions, speeches, letters, petitions – WRITTEN records in black and white. A TOP fear, likely. NUMBER ONE, of the 1770-1800 American people, as an entity, REPEATEDLY said this: THEY FEARED ONE CHURCH OR A COMBINATION OF CHURCHES WOULD SEEK TO IMPOSE UPON THEM RELIGIOUS DOGMA THEY DIDN’T FREELY ACCEPT OR BELIEVE. From Roger Williams to the First Amendment – 150 years of records exists: AMERICANS, OF ALL RELIGIONS, DEMANDED SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE. They absolutely did NOT want to be forced to attend a church against their will; they did NOTA want to be forced to subsidize ANY church against their free will; they did NOT want their lives controlled by religious dogma they did NOT believe in. PERIOD.

Repeatedly, “not on any pretense whatsoever” would Americans be forced to accept ANY religious practices that violated “the dictates of their own conscience.” PERIOD.

Incredibly, there are forces in 2022-23 America that say all the above is false – and would have YOU believe none of this, 12636-1800 ever occurred. Fundamentalist churches seek to impose THEIR religion on YOU. They have allies in the current “supreme court,” which is “Weaponizing Religious Freedom” [ Andrew Seidel: “American Crusade” – read this book, in YOUR OWN SELF DEFENSE].
The infamous 2022 “supreme court,” and earlier ones [Trinity, Espinoza] violating YOUR religious rights [and YOUR tax dollars!] are only part of this powerful, well financed, plot. The 6 Republican “justices” major goal is demolishing the “separation of church and state” wall of 200 years precedence.

Stay silent, don’t vote against it. – and they’ll succeed. against EVERYTHING. the Founding generations stood for, believed in, wrote down in many state and federal documents.

The “American Crusaders” that Seidel and others warn YOU about are real, are very serious. – in imposing
THEIR religious dogma on YOU. YOU going to let them do it?????????????

II. The current Republican appointed majority have violated their oaths of office. Each federal judge takes an oath: “..that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and the rich..”
The total PATTERN of “winners” and “losers” during the Roberts-McConnell-Leo-Trump “court'” tenure ALONE refutes this; their decisions have in fact changed the Constitution as it was known, 1789 – 2005.

***”Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.” (Henry David Thoreau)

The Roberts-McConnell-Leo-Trump “court” is rated “most business-friendly” court since at least 1945. Corporations have a 70% plus “win” rate. How can this be “equal justice for the poor and rich”? The word “corporation” isn’t in the Constitution. According to “justice” Alito, this means corporations CANNOT have ANY Constitutional rights. How can a “court,” wanting to “do equal right to the poor and rich” be giving victories to entities that have NO rights???

***”The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint..but is conceived and ordered..in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men in white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.” [C. S. Lewis]

The R-M-L-T “supreme court” has given “religious conservatives,” prior to 2022, an 85% “win” record; the gave them l00% [three for three]. “Equal justice”??? And – totally out of line with previous Supreme Courts.

The largest and fastest growing American spiritual/religious groups is “the NONES,” with a reported 34% of adults. There are NO “NONES” on this “court.” The NONES and other major religious groups are “losers” in the current “supreme court.” The current “court” has created a class of ‘SUPER Americans” [the religious right whose rights are paramount].
HOW does this constitute “equal justice under the law”?????????

“Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternative.” [Barry Goldwater, U.S. Senator]

***”A judge can’t have any agenda. A judge can’t have any preferred outcome in any particular case. And a judge certainly doesn’t have a client.” [Samuel Alito, opening statement, his Senate confirmation hearing, 1/9/2006]
WOW !!!!! Think on this – now in nearly 2023. How many Americans would say THIS accurately describes “justice” Alito’s tenure on the 2006-2020 “supreme. court”?????????????

Chief “justice” John Roberts, at HIS Senate confirmation hearing, famously said his role was to “call balls and strikes” – he would merely be an umpire. “Houston, we have a problem”!!!!!!!!!!!! Umpires DON’T change rules, ignore rules, make up new rules during the game, have a strike zone that is somewhere between home plate and first base!!!!!!!!!!!!
“..two projects which Roberts..was making steady progress..one involved race, the other religion. Roberts long-term plan was to change how the Constitution understood both.” [“Justice On The Brink,” Linda Greenhouse] Didn’t she just say Roberts had an “agenda”? Is Mr. Roberts in BIG trouble with Mr.Alito?

“Amy Coney Barrett told senators during her Senate confirmation hearing laws could not be undone simply by personal beliefs, including her own. “It”s not the law of Amy.” [Lisa Mascaro: “Justices’ assurances on’Roe’ now look doubtful”; 12/4/221; Assoc. Press]
“Barrett’s personal religious beliefs matter, but not as much as her pattern of saying that Catholicism should take precedence when it collides with professional responsibilities.” Barrett criticized Justice Brennan’s answer about his Catholicism as, “not a proper response.” [Andrew Seidel, “American Crusade”]. Is Barrett in trouble with Alito also?

“After the hearings, Thomas acknowledged..he had purposely masked aspects of his identity from Congress and the public..during the hearings, Thomas testified..he saw no place for ideology on the high court. “I think..it is important for us..to eliminate agendas, to eliminate ideologies..So I have no agenda.”.. Thomas had proven himself the most political of justices..” Thomas vowed..he intended to spend the next forty-three years..as a Supreme Court justice. It would take that long, he told friends, to get even.” Thomas was also less than honest about his relationship with Anita Hill and about his opinions on abortion. [“Strange Justice,” J.Mayer and J.Abrahamson] Is Thomas in trouble with Alito?

***”Fort a long time I have not said what I believed nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happened to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.” [Machiavelli]

Judicial oaths of office require justices to “support and defend the Constitution..” The Preamble states the Constitution was written to “form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility..promote the general Welfare.”
Both the overall PATTERN and many specific cases DOCUMENT beyond any doubt the R-M-L-T “supreme court” has failed to “uphold the Constitution.” Worse, increasingly now, more and more studies show SUBVERSION of the Framers’ intent and the written Constitution, as understood, 1789-2005.

One of America’s oldest, and most sacred, legal principles is “separation of church and state,” dating from Roger Williams in 1636. 1776-1800 state constitutions were ADAMANT, in very explicit language “neither shall any person, on any pretense whatsoever” be compelled to attend or support a church he did not voluntarily wish to do.
The Roberts “court” has SUBVERTED this in MANY ways

In the unprecedented 2008 “Heller” gun decision, its main author, Scalia, acknowledged the original purpose of the Second Amendment when enacted was to protect state militias capable of resisting federal tyranny. Contrary to five supreme Court decisions, especially “Miller’ [1939], in which a unanimous Court said the “obvious purpose” of the Second Amendment was to “assure the continuation and render possible the effectiveness of [state militias]” All this ignores the 1792 “Militia Acts,” which REQUIRED able-bodied free white males, 18-45, to join militias.
Three Roberts “court” decisions have SUBVERTED the “obvious” purpose, substituting an INVENTED “individual right of self defense” and abetting 400 million guns so NOWHERE in America is safe.

Personal privacy was the intent of Amendments III and IV: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects..shall not be violated.” Numerous Supreme Court opinions – prior to 2005 – supported this. The SACRED right “to be let alone” is THE hallmark of democracy.
Because of personal religious beliefs, the 6 Republican “justices” have opposed one of THER most fundamental human rights: reproductive freedom and bodily integrity. Their infamous 2022 “Dobbs” ruling has produced chaos in American health practices. A “more perfect Union, Justice, domestic Tranquility”?????????????????????????

The Roberts-McConnell-Leo-Trump “court” has SABOTAGED Amendment V’s “due process of law” requirement. “The Roberts Court has issued a string of rulings that make it virtually impossible to escape arbitration agreements..The result has been a rapid expansion of private arbitration as a parallel justice system that has supplanted a role once occupied almost entirely by state and federal courts..public courts more permanently disappear as a real option for many Americans..” [“Uncertain Justice”, Tribe and Matz]
Tribe and Matz also: “The Roberts “court” “has dealt critical legal rules a death of a thousand cuts – leaving many of our rights intact but making them effectively impossible to enforce in any court.”
??????????? How does THIS “support and defend the Constitution”???????????????

Well known and respected law professor, Erwin Chemerinsky, has written an entire book, “Closing the Courthouse Doors How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable.” Case after heartbreaking case DOCUMENT cruelties imposed on ordinary Americans – just like YOU. Read this book. You will be stunned, shocked, angered, incredulous, at how a “court,” “supreme” no less, could do this in the name of YOUR Constitution

***”No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.” [Theodore Roosevelt]

A warning was written in 2008 about what law professor Ronald Dworkin feared he was seeing in early Roberts “court” days, “The Supreme Court Phalanx.” Dworkin concluded with: “Perhaps Roberts will keep his word and try in future years to build a new consensus that more faithfully reflects the Court’s traditions. But I suspect that his Senate testimony was actually a coded script for the continuing subversion of the American Constitution. The worst is yet to come.” Would a “reasonable person” say that professor Dworkin was correct: the worst WAS yet to come?

A similar warning by John Dean, “Broken Government. How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches,” can be found in chapter three: “Third Branch: Toward the Breaking Point” on what could happen under right wing fundamentalists. Pages 166-173 provide chilling predictions – some of which have ALREADY come true.

Could Supreme Court justices, upholding “equal justice for poor and rich alike” and the Constitution have an agenda? The current 6 Republican “justices” denied they did in Senate hearings. Do subsequent records and PATTERNS support their claims to no agenda?
Ian Millhiser”s “The Agenda How A Republican Supreme Court Is Reshaping America” suggests they DO have an agenda. If this be true, would our “reasonable person” say all 6 have broken their oaths of office?
Does equal justice for ALL Americans allow a 75% corporate “win” rate, or a 90% “win” rate for religious conservatives? Does their oath of office allow this? Does their creation of a “super class” of Americans allow this?
Does rewriting and/or. sabotaging multiple Amendments allow this?
What do. YOU. think???????????

***”If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.” [Justice Brandeis]

Andrew Jackson: “I am of the opinion that a good judiciary lends much to the dignity of a state and the happiness of the people..On the Contrary a bad judiciary involved i. party business is the greatest Curse that can befall a Country.”

I. The Roberts “court” violates the property of “descriptive representation.” This concept dates to classical Athens and their lottery machine, the kleroterion. [Scientific American,; November, 2022; “A More Perfect Algorithm”}. It was designed to give citizens the feeling their assembly was a legitimate body [a LEGITIMATE BODY] that truly represented ALL citizens. The Roberts-McConnell-Leo-Trump “court” most certainly DOES NOT represent America – a realization of such is at the heart of rapidly increasing distrust of this “supreme court.”

The current 6 Republican appointees DO NOT represent America in virtually ANY way: demographically, legally, Constitutionally, Amerficanly. This is well known by documented Republican selection methods for the judiciary.
Republican judicial nominees at ALL levels carefully screened by two groups – themselves NOT representative of America: social conservatives for “correct” religious and other beliefs, Federalist Society network members for “correct” legal and Constitutional beliefs. Republican president, George W. Bush was deemed careless, resulting in a public right-wing rebellion against his first choice. He was forced to substitute Samuel Alito.
There are about l.35 million American lawyers. About 70-75,000 of these belong to the Federalist Society network. Republican judicial nominees are most likely to to be chosen from that Society. The Federalist Society began because “conservative” legal activists believed the American Bar Association was “too liberal” [news to most Americans!!!]

The Roberts-McConnell-Leo-Trump “court” rated, before 2022, THE most “business-friendly” supreme Court since at least 1945. Corporate activists before this “supreme court” prior to 2022 [another win] had a 70% “win” rate
Distinguished law professor and legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky, in “Closing the Courthouse Door…How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable<” discusses how, case by case, ordinary Americans have/are losing access to courts. Much of this would have been lawsuits against corporations.

***Justice Black: “Power corrupts, and unrestricted power will tempt Supreme court justices just as history tells us it has tempted other judges. For unfortunately, judges have not been immune to the seductive influences of power, and given absolute or near absolute power, judges may exercise it to bring about changes that are inimical to freedom and good government.”

In June, 2008, 7 of the 9 sitting justices were millionaires. Currently it is known Roberts, Alito and Gorsuch are millionaires. Only the sole Hispanic, Sonia Sotomayor, is said to have been from a “lower class” background.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, [3/27/2019]: “Within the Federalist Society, is an operation funded by dark money and designed to remake the judiciary on behalf of a distinct group of very wealthy anonymous funders..90% of Trump’s appellate judges and both supreme court justices are members..there are three Federalist Societies”.. the third Federalist Society “is the vehicle for powerful interests..to acquire control of the judiciary to benefit their interests.”

All 6 current Republican “justices were raised Roman Catholic. 5 are males. All but one Republican Supreme Court nominee since 1982 were raised Catholic. And this man was later ostracized with the mantra “No more Souters.”
In 2007, law school professor Jeffrey Rosen: “..right now we have a Supreme Court that religiously at least, by no means looks like America.”

***Double Standard Warning: much more in a later post on Article Vi violations. Repubs/right-wingers can select “conservative” religious nominees, even ones with documented hostility to the religious rights of other Americans. BUT – Nobody, including YOU, and especially me, is allowed to question this – as it would be “unfair” or deemed bigoted for any of US to call the Repubs/right wingers on THEIR own bigotry. See the attacks on Senator Feinstein!!!! And then – for perspective, see “Justice on the Brink,” pgs XXII-XXIII for a response by Catholic theologian Cathleen Kavery.!!!!!!

November, 2022, Pew Poll: “Do you think supreme court justices should or should not bring their own religious views into how they decide major cases? U.S. adults: should NOT – 83%
October, 2021 Pew Poll: The federal government should enforce separation of church and state – 54%, should stop enforcing it – 19%
October, 2021: the federal government should never declare any religion official – 69%, declare the U.S. a Christian nation – 15%.

Prior to the notorious 20231-22 “supreme court” session, religious activists [usually “conservative”] had an 85% “win” record with the Roberts “court.” They were 3 for 3 in 2021-22.
PERSPECTIVE!!!: “Every other Supreme Court, religious “rights’ won 44% of cases.”

*****”The Deal”: “Christian nationalist preacher and Trump acolyte Robert Jeffress discussed the case [Roe] on Fox News, explaining “the deal”; “We’re gonna see now what the justices do and if they uphold their part of the deal.” Trump and McConnell put Barrett on the court, and the court finally ends Roe. That was the deal.” [“American Crusade’]

A 9/9/22 article discussing a combined poll revealed “Citizens are united in more ways than you might think” [Steve Corbin], on more than 150 issues, including abortion, gender issues, gun control, immigration, voting, overturing “Citizens United,” rolling back 2017 tax cuts.
The McConnell-Leo-Trump-Roberts “court” has ALREADY issued decisions against what the American public said they wanted done, on what is “justice.”

***”It is a misfortune if a judge reads his conscious or unconscious sympathy with one side of the other prematurely into the law, and forgets that what may seem to him to be first principles are believed by half of his fellow men to be wrong.” [Supreme Court Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr]

Winter, 2022, S.P.L.C. Report, Margaret Huang: “Today, extremists are using our statehouses to incubate shameful copycat laws that seek to control our bodies, whitewash our history in the schools and criminalize LGBTQ+ children. And rather than end discrimination here in the South, a majority of justices on the Supreme Court seem intent on making it the law of the land.”

Within the overall PATTERN of questionable Roberts “court” opinions, can be found the following:
– embarrassing: “Shelby County” – the “court” claimed “the South has changed,” with regard to restricting voting,
especially by Black Americans. Within hours [!!!!!] of this decision, Texas reinstated a restrictive
voting law previously declared unconstitutional; quickly followed by other Confederate states
and Republican dominated legislatures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
– destructive: “Citizens United” – based on a unique “free speech” interpretation, which one legal analyst said amounted
to laundering money through a lobbyist. Statistics show the amount of money spent influencing political
decisions has DOUBLED. The American political system is inundated by floods of money, much of it
“Dark Money” of unknown origins. Ordinary Americans recognize the danger to democracy, and
decisively want “Citizens United” overturned.
– ahistorical: “Dobbs”, infamous and divisive; written in similar terms to infamous “Dred Scott” opinion – claimed
FALSELY abortion was not in American tradition or history. For 2,000 years, most civilizations had
contraception and abortion practiced. English immigrants brought English abortion law. Textbooks
were written with abortion. Midwives and doctors performed American abortions. No state criminalized
abortion until 1821. Alito”s “not in the Constitution ignores Amendments I, III, IV, IX.
– unConstitutional: “Espinoza”: 5 Republican “justices” said Montana taxpayers must subsidize a religious school; also
claimed Montana guilty of anti-Catholic bias, dating from 19th century. “Facts” WRONG!!! Bias by
whom in the decisions??? 5 “justices,” the products of Catholic schools/churches? 1776 era state
constitutions – New Jersey, Article XVIII: “nor shall any person..ever be obliged to pay tithes, taxes,
or other rates, for the building or repairing any church..or for the maintenance of any minister..
contrary to what he believes to be right..” This was NOT directed at Catholics.
– laughable: “Hobby Lobby” – Andrew Seidel, “American Crusade,” Chapter 10, DESTROYS the Republican men”s
argument, pointing to “five major failings”: religion trumps reality, Hobby Lobby’s
hypocrisy, when ‘choice’ matters, there was no burden on the Green’s religion, Alito
rewrote the lines. Dissenting justices laid bare the “startling breadth” of the decision.
A state Supreme Court Chief Justice: Hobby Lobby violates corporate law principles.

All the above, a mere sample, illustrate how FAR OUT OF TOUCH WITH AMERICA this “court: is. Equally important, OUT OF TOUCH WITH 1789-2005 AMERICAN LEGAL TRADITION. They claim to be :originalists” – interpreting the Constitution as the Framers wrote it. Leaving aside for now the questionable wisdom of THIS – in case after case – the FACTS show THEY ARE MAKING THIS UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In explicit quotes, documents, constitutions, the Founding generations, 1776-1800, OPPOSED much of what the McConnell-Leo-Trump-Roberts “court” has done. Legal papers and books have been written on how their “Originalism” is BIG LIE, a big covering excuse, a JOKE.

As many books and papers have said, the principles behind this “court”s” decisions are often, NOT the Constitution, but are Republican and/or right wing nut political ideas. Many parts of the Constitution and Amendments are in direct OPPOSITION to this “court.” This isn’t rocket science!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can research this for the truth – real past American history and legal work. Simply find real, honest, truthful scholarship. WARNING : the forces behind the coup are VERY good at making up junk history and “opinion.” Their “think tanks” are well funded. Their stuff gets into mainstream press. They’re definitely among the internet idiots. This misinfo is a BIG reason we have a divided America.
Go back to the principles of the Declaration and Constitution’s Preamble. Find the 1776 state constitutions. Look at what was discussed in the 1787-89 debates on the Constitution. Find documents like the Virginia Declaration of Rights. Research the Founders’ 4 major fears: corruption, slavery, religion, mobs. See how their fears still exist. What did they mean by a “virtuous republic”? Find out WHY “God,” “corporations” are NOT in the Constitution. Find out WHY the “Bill of Rights” HAD to be added. Find out what Chief Justice John Marshall said about general principles in the Constitution – and WHY the Constitution does NOT tread like a math textbook.
When you have done some of this – THEN – it will become obvious to YOU – WHY the Roberts “court” is Illegitimate, unConstitutional, unAmerican, Destructive, Ahistorical.

Think in terms of a coup, a slow-moving coup. think in terms of a planned counter-revolution. think in terms of murder. the current “supreme court” is NOT a “court.” It is the end station of a deliberate process to remake America, by changing the rules. tis has evolved over the last 50 somer years. It began under Nixon. the first major act was “Reaganism.” the second major act was “Bush-Gore. The third major act is the Roberts “court.” The fourth major act was January 6, 2021.
American law, American democracy, American decency, are being murdered in a “death of a thousand cuts.” This process is well organized, extremely well financed. The end object if a theocratic plutocracy. One that takes America back to 1787 – an America ruled by rich white male Christians.
Let the evidence speak for itself, 1968-2022. Let the PATTERN of “supreme court” decisions be the proof. WHO are the consistent “winners” and “losers”???
Let the major tests be the words of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution’s Preamble, the 1776-1800 state constitutions, the Bill of Rights, the content of the Constitution’s ratification and adoption of the Bill of Rights, the words and acts of the Founders in 1776-1800; and – how these documents were seen by judges, public servants, and the American people, 1776-1968.
This first article is only a broad outline of the case against the current reactionary Republican dominated “supreme court” and Republican “justice,” l968-2022. Details will follow.
This “court” claims to be following American history; they claim to be upholding the “original intent” of the Founders. THEY. ARE. LYING. This “court” is ahistorical, illegitimate, un-Constitutional, un-American, and destructive. Their own actions refute their claims. One of the Crusaders claimed they weren’t political hacks. YOU decide. What do their own words and actions illustrate? What is their pre-“court” and “court” behavior? WHO are the “winners” and “losers” in consistent PATTERNS? Why are major decisions virtually predictable?

SOME of the charges against the ever increasingly reckless, arrogant, and destructive McConnell-Trump-Roberts “court” are listed below. Much more depth, in detail, will be forthcoming.

I. The Roberts “court” violates the property of “descriptive representation.” This concept dates back to classical Athens and their lottery machine, the kleroterion. It was designed to give the citizens the feeling their assembly was a LEGITIMATE body that truly represented ALL citizens. The McConnell-Trump-Roberts “court” most certainly does NOT represent America, which is at the heart of Americans increasingly distrusting them.

II.The current Republican appointed majority have violated their oaths of office. Each federal judge takes this oath: “..that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and the rich..” The total PATTERN of “winners” and “losers” during the Roberts “court” tenure easily refutes they have done this requirement; let alone if their decisions have in fact defended the Constitution as it was known, 1789-2004.

III. This “supreme court” has violated the Constitution’s Preamble: the American government exists to: “..form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility…promote the general Welfare..” Many of their decisions have produced chaos, allowed corruption. The PATTERN of these decisions has produced “winners” and “losers” that have worked against Union, Justice, Tranquility, the general Welfare of Americans.

IV. They have violated Article VI: “..but no religious test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States>”. The well known and documented process of selection by the Republican Party since at least 1980 demonstrates that they, and virtually EVERY Republican judicial nominee, WAS. subjected to TEST. of their beliefs. If not “pro-life” [the TEST] they were highly unlikely to be chosen.

V. This “supreme court” has violated Amendment IX: “The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” The current 6 Republican “justices” claim to be following a jurisprudence of “original intent,” which says anything not in the Constitution is not protected. A recent 2022 major decision stated a certain long-term right wasn’t protected because it wasn’t in the Constitution.

VI. This “court” has violated Article V: the process for amending the Constitution. NO Supreme Court can amend [change, alter, delete, add provisions to] the Constitution. This “court’, by its attacks on Amendments I, II, III, IV, IX has attempted to, in reality, amend the Constitution. It has by its decisions weaken3d American access to protected, and often long respected, basic Constitutional rights.

VII.The 6 Republican “justices” have violated tenets of Article III, Section I: “The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior..” Consider all of the above as violations of “good Behavior.” Consider also the personal conduct of the Republican “justices” off the bench. They have become increasingly bold in their public appearances and words taking on a highly partisan flavor – raising questions about their objectivity. Consider also their Senate testimonies – many of which are now seen unfavorably in terms of truth and honesty.

VIII. This “court” has violate4d basic American principles, as understood, 1789-2004. Begin with “.. all Men are created equal..endowed with certain unalienable rights..” Go to the Bill of Rights and basic American freedoms>. How many of these rights, well documented and understood, 1789-2004, have been weakened?

IX. They have violated the basic principle of courts as neutral, fact and precedent respecting bodies. It is DOCUMENTED this “court” has IGNORED inconvenient facts, or lied about them, or twisted them. How many times have you seen this: “the expected ruling..”? Why is THAT phrasing often used? Examine the Roberts “court” track record for WHO the big “winners” have consistently been. You need not go back any further than the infamous 2022 decisions.

X. They have violated the confidence and trust of the American people – that decisions will be fair and rational, a just one. More and more, especially after 2022, the American people sees the Roberts “court” as a “kangaroo court.” There was a public process, but more and more, suspicions are this was all done for appearances.

XI. Their destructive decisions have made corruption more likely. “Citizens United” has led to American politics being inundated by floods of money, much of it ‘DARK’ from domestic and foreign sources. “Shelby County” has led to numerous state laws trying to prevent [the “wrong”] people from voting – gutting a law that worked. They have refused to end gerrymandering, which from its entire history has produced corrupted voting.

XII. Some of their decisions have resulted in cruelty. “Ledbetter” was so egregious that Congress passed relief. In another case, an innocent man was allowed to be executed. Another decisions denied military women, who it was documented, had been raped. Books have been written about “supreme court” cruelty and callousness.

XIII. Increasingly, legal commentators are edging toward this: the theme of the Roberts “court’ as a very real THREAT to American democracy. They have had chances to rule against practices such as gerrymandering, with both a Democratic and Republican case – and refused to do it. This should have been easy. This is only the beginning….

XIV. Increasingly, after Roberts “court” rulings, commentators will describe the decision as having been written “BY PEOPLE ON A MISSION.” Fellow Supreme Court justices have used similar language, such as “they did this because they wanted to.” Several of these Republican “justices” said in their Senate confirmation hearings that “they didn’t have an agenda,” that they were only umpires “calling balls and strikes.” They DIDN’T tell us where their strike zone was.

For Perspective:
1] Research the careers and background of major Republican “justices since 1970: Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Alito. What were their pre-court careers? How have they conducted themselves in public and on the bench? What has been the RESULT of their decisions? For example, one of them was proven wrong for his rationale for a 2013 decision within 24 hours!!!!! [ and many others that followed!!!]
2] Research WHY the Roberts “court” is labeled “the most business-friendly” supreme “court’ since 1945. What has THIS meant to American society and people? Before the notorious 2022 decisions, the Roberts ‘court” had given the “religious right” a “win” in 80% of their decisions! The “religious right” was 3 for 3 in 2022!
3] Research the cases the Roberts “court’ has taken since 2005. WHY did they take THESE particular cases? After changes in personnel, they accepted cases that previous Republican dominated “courts” had rejected – WHY????? The laws in question did NOT change. Research this “court”s” use of the “shadow docket”!!!!!!!
4]. The Constitution’s Framers designed a three-part American government so there would be three INDEPENDENT major branches. It is increasingly being said that the Roberts “court” no longer is an “independent” branch. WHY is THIS being said – by mainstream, informed, well respected legal experts and observers? What is the BASIS for what these people are saying?
5]. Make comparisons. Compare the “courts” of Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, current 21st century authoritarian regimes to the Roberts “court.” These authoritarian regimes are notorious for ‘USING THE LAW’ to protect their power snd people they wanted to protect. Find some of the many media reports on the Roberts “court” “using” cases to reach a desired outcome>. Some will include fellow Supreme Court justices pointing out this fact.
6]. During the Rehnquist “court,” a group of Republican appointed justices- O’Connor, Souter, Kennedy – often restrained that “conservative court” from making bad decisions. Since then, Republican political operatives have had this mantra: “No more O’Connors.” “No more Souters.” What does THIS tell you?????
7]. Do research to find out what Senator Mitch mcConnell meant when he told an aide after the 2016 election that he was going to conduct a “conveyor belt” of “conservative” judgers to the federal bench> Research the McConnell PATTERN of behavior on getting “the proper” judges on the federal bench.
8]. Research the role of advocate groups outside of government in getting “conservative” judges on the federal bench. Research a particular legal network that has an outsized presence in this since 1982. Research the particular leader of this group who was/is prominent in judge selections – he was known as a very religious person. Research the funding of this and other groups – WHO gives them their millions?
9}. Do REAL research – minimal and JUDICIOUS internet use!!! Be careful – the political-economic-social-religious right has a very skilled, often believable propaganda network. Find mainstream studies, papers, articles, books by REAL historians [THEY have one who has written a lot of debunked junk history]. THEY have columnists submitting as blizzard of articles to papers. THEY have talking heads everywhere on media; internet idiots and media morons. i

Every American who desires freedom and individual rights MUST read Pema Levy’s “Surveillance State” article in the November-December, 2022, “Mother Jones” magazine. MUST.
For perspective, consider Charles Kimball’s “When Religion Becomes Evil” and his “Five Warning Signs of Corruption in Religion:” absolute truth claims, blind obedience, the end justifies any means, declaring holy war, establishing the “Ideal” time. Most relevant here: the end justifies any means and declaring holy war. See also, Eric Hoffer’s classic, “The True Believers.”

Levy discusses effects of Texas’ “SB 8” bill banning abortions after 6 weeks of pregnancy (before many know they are pregnant), and most significantly: the enforcement mechanism. Under the law, ANY person can sue ANYBODY they SUSPECT of helping a pregnant person get an abortion – legalizing vigilanteism. The incentive: a minimum $10,000 in “damages.” Doctors can also get life in prison.

This mob law phenomenon spread to other states: 191 bills in 40 states “sought to limit classroom instruction on gender, sexual orientation, race, American history since January, 2021…46 of whose would be enforced by private citizens. Vigilantes, like the KKK, used to be extra-legal.
Also of major concern, Levy mentions some considerable damage to the practice of medicine with respect to women, ALL facets. Decades old normal procedures now reconsidered and delayed, with deadly results to female patients.

Levy’s discussion of authoritarian aspects of “SB 8” begins with Communist East Germany’s security forces, the Stasi. A nation of 40,919 square miles had “more than 170,000 informers..not only to spy on its citizens but, through that surveillance, psychologically terrorize them.” Only authoritarian, dictatorial, governments seek to terrorize their own citizens. It was once written, “It Can’t Happen Here.” No more.

Levy discusses another sinister aspect of an American Surveillance State: the right-wing war on America’s public schools. “The war will be won in education, Republican Richard Corcoran, Florida’s then-education commissioner..”Education is our sword, that’s our weapon.'”
A New Hampshire chapter of “Moms for Liberty” “put a bounty on these teacher’s heads” because of the “Divisive Concepts” law. (President Eisenhower: “read every book in the library.”)

“All this happened amid a nation-wide campaign to pass laws that would censor America’s racist past and deny its influence on our present.”
George Orwell already discussed this in “1984,” stating what dictatorships already knew and practiced: government censorship: “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”

Even more sobering for freedom-loving Americans: Levy’s discussion of the work of Jon Michaels and David Noll. “Michaels and Noll see vigilante enforcement laws as an extension of America’s anti-democratic traditions of slavery and Jim Crow. The closest historical corollary to “SB 8”, they argue, is the “Fugitive Slave Law” of 1850.”
Why should we be surprised??? A state of the old “Confederacy,” passing an unAmerican law built around hatred and bigotry? A state that was one of the first, after the infamous 2013 Supreme Court “Shelby County” abomination to revive a previously un-Constitutional law gutting the 1965 Civil Rights Act, to be quickly followed by other Confederate states.

The American Surveillance State is built on fascist principles. Like previous dictatorships it uses “divide-and-conquer.” It turns ordinary citizens against other ordinary citizens. (“the Pursuit of Happiness” anyone??????)
Just like the Stasi, the Gestapo, the KGB, the kempei – Texas’ “SB 8” uses law for authoritarian purposes. What more can be said than the anti-abortion ‘holy war’ has regressed to pre-Civil War practices???
Runaway slaves now replaced by runaway female medical patients.

Historian William Freehling’s “The Road to Disunion,” in his chapter, “Democrats as Lynchers,” between 1830-1860, 300 WHITES were lynched in the South, mentions the “quality of terror produced.”
Just like the quality of terror produced in Hitler’s Germany by “the knock on the door at midnight;” just like the quality of terror in Stalin’s Russia – you did not want to be the first to stop clapping.

But why should YOU be surprised? The “pro-life” agenda is built around authoritarian principles. Just like the Nazis (who also outlawed abortion and homosexuality), just like the Russian communists, just like “true believers” everywhere – the “pro-lifers” know what is best for you. And – if you don’t agree – they’ll force YOU, using any means necessary – to accomplish their holy war’s goals.

The American Surveillance State is only a logical step on the road to a modern Puritan theocracy – except Roger Williams is no longer exiled – SHE is persecuted and prosecuted. Pillory, stocks, ducking stool, witch burning next?

One more thing: for more perspective on what the American surveillance State portends, please check “the 14 characteristics of Fascism.”
Play special attention to these: “powerful and continuing nationalism; disdain for recognition of human rights; identify enemies/scapegoats; rampant sexism (male domination, opposition to abortion and anti-gay laws and policies); religion and government intertwined; corporate power protected (Roberts Court); labor power suppressed (Roberts Court); disdain for intellectuals and art; obsession with crime and punishment.”
THINK on these alone – how many ALREADY EXIST in America? THINK also on how the American Surveillance State aids and abets accomplishment of these fascist characteristics.

Texas’. “SB 8” is a MAJOR step to ending American democracy.

It rained in the upper midwest election U.S.A. night. If one were a poet, they might say the gods were weeping. If a student of cultural history, P.T. Barnum crying, because having lost his crown as America’s biggest con man. If a student of America, Abraham Lincoln, distraught over having been proven wrong: “You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all the time.”
Or, Lincoln weeping having seen his concerns of January 27, 1837, come to fruition: “At what point, then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us; it cannot be from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
Or, perhaps foreign friends weeping. As described in Damien Cave’s 11/9/22, New York Times article: “World watches U.S. democracy lose its way.” Friends from Asia, Europe, Canada, Africa, Australia, Latin America bemoaned what they saw in the one-time world champion of democracy, steadily worsening since 2000. What did this mean for THEM?

It”s often said, in war the first casualty is truth. A war against American democracy has been waged for 50 years. A series of corrupt presidential administrations in one political party. A well-financed and orchestrated plan to corrupt the federal judiciary succeeded – a fact mentioned by foreign observers. An alternative universe of reactionary forces in information produces “alternative facts.” “Torrent of lies coalesces into suspect vote” said the Stanley-Becker and Harwell article in the 11/9/22 Washington Post – itself echoing numerous findings by American intelligence organizations, police forces, investigative journalists, statements by ordinary victimized Americans.
The torrent of DEFINITIVELY debunked lies, internet idiot rumors, media moron mistruths has, with Madison Avenue professionalism, so saturated America many swear these obvious falsehoods are gospel truths. All that is in addition to Russian and Chinese trolls building upon America’s own paranoia and fears.
Lies are the dagger that kills democracies.

Perhaps the skies are weeping because recent two decades’ worth of CARTOON CHARACTER CANDIDATES one party has nominated. If these people had been running for office elsewhere, it would’ve been said “only in a banana republic”; or only in a sinking European “democracy” in the early 1930s could a Charlie Chaplin played character become dictator. No more. it HAS happened in America

Perhaps weeping skies are coming from the Founders, because their four worst fears have become true: corruption, slavery, religion, mobs. Their hopes for a “virtuous republic” dashed. Corruption of government and law financed by reactionary billionaires, carried out by corrupt politicians. Slavery transformed into hatred and discrimination against women and various minorities. Religion weaponized by right-wing forces to control people’s lives and pervert laws. Mobs trashing the U.S. Capitol and injuring 140 police; armed mobs everywhere intimidating innocent civilians.

America has, supposedly, survived the 1850-1865 slavery struggle – but – the area that demanded slavery has not mentally/politically changed. We survived the 1940s-1950s anti-communist witch hunt, sort of – a favorite right-wing accusation is somebody/something is “socialist” or “communist.” Still!!!!!!!!!!!!

Perhaps we will survive the current 50-year attack on true democracy. Attackers are determined, very well financed. They’re at war with post-1900 American civilization. They’re armed with religious belief in the rectitude of their “mission to save America.” They’ve demonstrated anything goes to accomplish this sacred self-imposed “mission.”

Aristotle: “The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.”
Later Orwell: “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”

Reactionary anti-democratic American forces have tried to control the past – by numerous bogus “history books pushing lies; by numerous “scholarly works” twisting principles and events; by bogus “Supreme Court” statements purporting historical and legal “truths.”

Perhaps weeping November, 2022, skies are IN FACT fears of the gods, the Founders, Lincoln, foreign friends. If so, it will be remembered this occurred.
If America ceases to be a democracy IN FACT, not reactionary rhetoric, it will be said its death struggles lasted over 50 years, 1970-2020s.
As in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Putin’s Russia, Xi Jinping’s China – appropriate lies will be constructed to provide official “history” and dogma explaining democratic America’s death.

Web sites like this will be deleted.

I also will be deleted.

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