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.

• the New York Times and Washington Post made all this up – to increase sales
  
  – it’s a plot to take YOUR guns; it’ll be framed as a “national security” operation; YOUR house is at the top of their gun theft operation
  
  – Trump was made president by God; he had a right to take whatever he wanted
  
  -the entire thing is a HOAX111; Fox is working hard to find the real truth
  
  – Trump didn’t know anything about whatever this is
  
  – this is part of the Blue Helmet plan to deny Trump his rightful 2024 presidential re-election
  
  – Pelosi and The Squad did this; if January 6th had worked, this wouldn’t have happened
  
  – as a former president, Trump is above the law
  
  – this is all a commie-lib-antifa-feminist plot to frame Trump; Fox & Friends are working on the truth
  
  – this is Comey’s revenge; he’s been secretly leading the FBI on this, sneaking into FBI headquarters disguised as a woman
  
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  – the Chinese did it, as revenge fro Trump blaming them for COVID
  
  – pro-abortionists did this as revenge for Trump’s Supreme Court appointees; Fox News is working on the scandal
  
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  – the I.R.S. did it to justify their recent budget increase – which they are going to use to harass YOU
  
  – it happened because a bunch of R.I.N.O.s working with the back-stabbing former “Republican” Congress critters who voted against Trump used their D.C. contacts to hire Washington bureaucrats to acquire the “material in question,” then ship it to Mar-a-Lago, where it was conveniently “discovered”; Fox is working on this scandal
  
  – Trump loves America. WE KNOW this. There’s no way he did this
  
  – if ever there was FAKE NEWS, this is it! All the people who hate Trump and are out to get him have combined forces
  
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  – Putin did it; he’s upset Trump hasn’t publicly backed his Ukraine invasion; he felt Trump “owed” him for getting Trump elected president in 2016
  
  – the coastal elites did this; they don’t like how Trump stands up for REAL Americans like YOU. They want to make sure he doesn’t help YOU any more
  
  ****** So what is a patriotic American like YOU who dearly loves his country supposed to think? Look at all the possible suspects who want to get rid of Trump. You KNOW you haven’t heard the real truth behind all this manufactured “criminal” activity – because Fox News hasn’t told you the REAL story.

1980-2022 America has been robbed, divided, misinformed, persecuted by four groups of artificially privileged people: American oligarchs, media morons and internet idiots, reactionary religious zealots, gun zealots. The Super “Citizens’ above the law [or in some cases – beneficiaries of laws they funded and wrote].

These people have been aided and sometimes created by the 2005-2022 “supreme court.” The majority 6 have been illegally appointed by a “religious Test.” This site has called the McConnell/Trump/Roberts “court” the ‘Stupid Court>”. We are not alone. The President said it “didn’t have a clue.” A minority Justice said there was a “stench” about this “court.” After the infamous “Dobbs” rough draft was leaked, a law professor said it looked like it was written by “people on a mission.” AND – these people are not alone in questioning the sanity and competence of the majority 6.

At his Senate confirmation, “justice” Alito said: “A judge can’t have any agenda. And a judge certainly doesn’t have a client>. In a November, 2020, speech [to a right-wing group}, Alito stated that freedom of speech, religion and gun rights are in danger of “second tier” constitutional status. No agenda? No client?

The majority 6 often claim to be only supporting “original intent” [1787-1791] of the Founders. Chief Justice Marshall’s critique of this fabrication: “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.” Marshall, and 1789-1999 American “history and tradition” – versus Alito.

Given the 2005-2022 PATTERN, YOU decide: has the McConnell/Trump/Roberts Stupid court “establish[ed] Justice, insure{d} domestic Tranquility.. promote[d] the general Welfare..????? Is this “court” one of competence and wisdom – following “American history and tradition” – or – does it have a reactionary agenda [an agenda that is defended by use of R-W think tank manufactured “scholarship”, with a history of twisting facts and basic principles]???????

The Founding Father’s generation envisioned a “virtuous” America; led by “virtuous” leaders [George Washington], populated by “virtuous” citizens. They understood human frailties, tried to build a system that encouraged only “virtuous” leaders who would “do the right thing” for the entire nation [Washington]. they envisioned a “virtuous” populace that informed itself and discussed issues – NOT a populace that fell victim to media morons and internet idiots.

There have always been differences of “opinion.” The 1980-2022 American problem is differences of FACTS [the “alternative facts” of certain people]. When 35% of a population is trapped in a DELIBERATELY CREATED “echo chamber” of MEDIA MORONS AND INTERNET IDIOTS making $1-5-l0-20-25-30-50 million a year to deceive them – America cannot worked as designed.

Having a “discussion” of issues is NOT, CANNOT, be an exchange of bumper-sticker slogans: “freedom,” “Second Amendment rights,” “religious freedom,” “COVID is a hoax,” “global warming is a hoax,” “election integrity,” the “stolen election,” “states rights,” “tax and spend,” “crime is out of control,” “we’re the REAL Americans,” “not in the Constitution,””defund the police,” “America is over taxed,” etc, etc until the “right” election issue is found.

What are the REAL facts??? Is any of the above bumper-sticker election slogans true??? Have YOU done any REAL research [beyond the internet] to find out if what YOU believe true really is??? What do YOU know about what the Founding Fathers’ generation REALLY said, thought, wrote, on basic principles they put into 1776-1800 federal and state constitutions??? WARNING: there is a major industry of manufacturing and TWISTING what the Founders REALLY said and created – some of which has surfaced in dubious “supreme court” 2000-2022 decisions.

Vladimir Putin’s propaganda principle is flood Russia with various stories – so after hearing contradictory “information” – Russians don’t know what the truth is. “American’ MEDIA MORONS AND INTERNET IDIOTS are masters of this. They’ve been taught by “American’ big business – which lied about tobacco, fossil fuels, global warming, pesticides, taxes and regulations, outsourcing jobs. The consequences o these BIG LIES are now destroying America and the world.

Article I, Section 9: “No title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States..” This refers to nobility of royal birth and “achievement.” America does not grant FORMAL titles of “nobility” – but DOES have “nobility.” these privileged persons are sometimes referred to as “masters of the universe.” They are the top members of the top 1% – the AMERICAN OLIGARCHS.
American OLIGARCHS run parts of the economy. they been LUCKY to become rich – making obscene amounts of $10-20-30-50-100 million per year, often EVERY YEAR, and with that, immense political power to get American rules changed to benefit themselves. Spitting in the faces of less fortunate Americans, they routinely evade taxes by ANY means possible [often using tax laws they paid for, “campaign contributions,” future job offers, P>PO. box company “headquarters,” anonymous shell companies].
for comparison; if Joe Sixpack works 18-68, makes $50,000 every year, his LIFETIME earnings are $2.5 million. If Susie Sorority works 22-68, makes $100,000 every year, her LIFETIME earnings are $4.6 million. AND – they will pay a HIGHER PERCENTAGE of their incomes than Percy Moneybags, III is likely to pay in taxes. Spit in YOUR face.

One of the founding generation’s DOCUMENTED BIG FEARS was an “ESTABLISHED CHURCH.” Major Baptist ministers protested against this; evangelicals sent protesting petitions against it; James Madison’s famous “Memorial and Remonstrance” warned against it; many major Founders were Deists [watchmaker God]; Jefferson and Paine were routinely called atheists; the First Amendment prohibits it [“Congress shall make NO law respecting an establishment of religion..”]. Is there an “alternative; meaning to the word “NO”?????????
State constitutions prohibited it [North Carolina, 1776, Articles XXXIV: not “..on any pretense whatsoever..”]; eight 1776-1800 state constitutions banned an ACTIVE MINISTER from their government!!!!!; 11 states HAD an “established church” – ALL were gone by 1830. These are all DOCUMENTED facts.

“Separation of church and state” means a church YOU don’t attend cannot tax you, cannot force you to run YOUR life by their religious dogma. PERIOD. A state or nation that allows this is not a “democracy.” It it a THEOCRACY. the founders were very aware of European religious wars. The First Amendment was designed to avoid this.
Unfortunately, a dedicated group of “fundamentalist” churches has conducted a 50-year religious war on America. Some results have been murdered doctors, violence, and 2000-2020 Stupid Court rulings.

The Second Amendment: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free people, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”

So – what does “Second Amendment rights” really mean??? that a STATE will have a “well regulated Militia – meaning a STATE has a National guard unit??? The “security of a free State” means what??? That the ENTIRE population of a STATE as one political unit feels secure from threats? Threats by whom??? What force could threaten an entire STATE??? Why do people have “arms”???
So – which of the THREE parts of the Second Amendment are “Second Amendment rights? The right to join a National guard unit??? The right of “the security of a free State”???
By the rules of English grammar – the FULL, CORRECT, meaning of the Second Amendment”. MUST include ALL parts of a sentence – the Second Amendment: state Militia, state security, people with guns – combined. ANY statement of “Second Amendment rights’ which does not do that is FALSE.

By the rules of the Constitution – “Militia”. appears in Article II, Section 8: “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions; To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States…”
Article III, Section 2: “The President shall be Commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into actual Service of the United States…”

SO – what part of Articles II and III allows for ordinary people, NOT in the National guard, to have guns to “protect their family”. when NOT. “called into actual Service of the United States”?????????
SO – what part of a “well regulated Militia” entitles ordinary civilians to be “good guys with guns”??????????
SO – what part of the U.S. Constitution allows civilians to carry in public military grade weapons on streets when NOT “called into actual Service of the United /states”?????????

Further, please read both parts of the “1792 Militia Acts [May 3, 8]”. REQUIRING every free able-bodied white male, age 18-45, to be enrolled in the militia, and, within 6 months, provide himself with a “good musket” and equipment.
REQUIRED, not asked, 18-45 males to Militia service for their local Militia. Tp provide communal security.

And – for you “strict constructionists,’ you constitutional literalists; the “arms” possible to you are ONLY single-shot, muzzle loading muskets – because that’s what existed then [see “not in the Constitution”]. Modern weapons did NOT exist – so – under YOUR rules – you can’t have them!!!!!!!!!!!!

1980-2022 America has been sliding into chaos BECAUSE it has accepted the BIG LIES of what the Constitution and the people who wrote it said, and DIDN’T say; because MEDIA MORONS AND INTERNET IDIOTS have spewed forth daily BIG LIES. o YOU would get angry [at the wrong people]; because “American” OLIGARCHS have so corrupted government and the economy that ordinary people – that’s YOU – struggle to survive – while the top 1% live i previously unimagined “nobility” and wealth.

Keep listening to their lies, voting for the politicians responsible for the PLANNED destruction of the American Dream – Republicans – and you’ll get what their announced, documented, goal is: a plutocratic theocracy. A system built on daily Putin-style BIG LIES and a total PERVERSION of what the Founders wrote and intended, of what 1789-1980 America WAS. Those alive in 1947-73 America KNOW what was achieved then – they lived the Dream.

“The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of
government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally staked on the experiment
entrusted to the hands of the American people.” [George Washington; first inaugural
address; April 30, 1789]

******* “..the EXPERIMENT entrusted to the..American people.”
Are YOU. up to continuing that experiment? If so, YOU. have work cut out for
YOU – because OUR American “experiment” is under attack like never before –
by determined, very well funded, fanatics, bent on imposing THEIR values
and religious dogma on YOU. This evidence is all around you – by people
claiming to be “patriots” and following the Constitution. That is their first
and greatest BIG LIE.i

Looking for answers to the madness, stupidity, injustice,, unfairness of 2022 America? Look no further than what the Founding generations meant, and did create in 1775-1800 .

They revolted against favored treatment for a British corporation in 1773; revolted against a king and established church in 1775.

The Republicans/Far-Right have managed to enthrone corporations, economic royalty, established churches with help from the McConnell/Trump/Roberts Stupid Court, a kangaroo “court” unmatched in American history. [and – given their 2005-2022 track record, many more un-Constitutional decisions await a defenseless American public].

The Founders had four major fears: corruption, slavery, religion, mobs.

Thanks to Republicans, the Far-Right, YOU have been forced to endure all four.
Corruption has, like a malignant cancer, eaten away at basic fairness and equality in ordinary American’s lives. The horror of slavery replaced by virulent racism/discrimination against colored peoples; and also against women and gays. The Founders’ documented fears of tyranny of an “established church” realized by enthronement of right-wing fundamentalist churches. Mobs now rove America, with military-style weapons, traumatizing communities through fear; culminating [so far]. with the January 6, 2021, assault on YOUR national capitol.

The word “corporation” is NOT in the Constitution. ALL corporate “rights” GIVEN. them by the Stupid Court, 1886 forward. This began with twisting 14th Amendment words; continues with twisting “free speech.” “Citizens United,” said legal experts made money laundering “speech.” The richer you are – the more “speech” you have!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The McConnell/Trump/Roberts Stupid Court had a 70% “win” rate for “big business” even before. gutting regulations that protect YOU in their infamous 2022 ruling, “West Virginia.”

The word “God” is not in the Constitution. Founders intended whatever religion, or no religion, one practiced would be PRIVATE. Explicitly in 1776-1800 state constitutions, they prohibited people from having to attend, or, “on any pretense whatsoever,” being forced to pay for church buildings or ministers. [see 1776 North Carolina, Articles XXXIV].

Both state and federal constitutions banned an “established church” – an official or state church – which citizens are FORCED to financially support and live by church dogma. A church YOU don’t attend, may even despise, cannot tax YOU, cannot FORCE you – by using the “law” – to live YOUR life by THEIR religious dogma.

The McConnell/Trump/Roberts Stupid Court has ALTERED the Constitution – illegally, they have NO power to change the Constitution. this “court” has destroyed what Amendment I’s language plainly states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..” The infamous three 2022 rulings, combined with previous un-Constitutional rulings have CREATED an”established church” in America: the far-right fundamentalist churches. By the cumulative weight of McConnell/Trump/Roberts Stupid Court rulings – YOU. are now compelled to support churches and their schools with YOUR tax dollars. YOUR reproductive choices are now governed by THEIR religious dogma, NOT. medical science and proven, standard medical practices.

Much of 1968-2022 Republican/Right Wing fear propaganda has to do with maintaining second class “citizenship” for women, colored peoples, gays. The Repubs/Far-Right regime requires “enemies.” Their official “enemies” are “uppity” women, “uppity” minorities, “uppity” gays. One is constantly told these “enemies” “need’ to be controlled so they don’t sabotage and damage America.

The revolutionary language, spirit, message of the Declaration of Independence said: ‘..all Men are created equal with certain unalienable rights..among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
Republicans and the Far-Right. DON’T. believe in these words. Since 1968, they have done everything they could to erase 1775-1968 progress America had made on political, economic, religious, social grounds
The intensity and arrogance of their opposition has increased since 1980, 2010, 2016.

Connect ALL the dots. Research [in REAL info, not echo chamber bumper stickers from media morons and internet idiots]. Examine the TOTAL. PATTERN. of what Republicans and the Far-Right have said and done. THEY have outsourced jobs [creating the Chinese threat], rigged the economy [to favor the top 1%], rigged the tax codes [to favor the top 1% and corporations] rigged elections [continuing in 2022-], put forth massive amounts of propaganda and LIES [on their own TV station and other media morons and internet idiots] to snow job YOU and “justify” their corruption.

The middle class peak, the peak of American civilization, STATISTICALLY, was achieved in 1947-73. This was “too good a deal” for the “undeserving’ common people – it had to go, and it did. 2022 America is NOT in any way like that era. We do have more “stuff,’ more comfort [some of us].

We also have more manufactured fear, more preposterous propaganda, more insecurity, more anxiety. THIS is part of the price Republicans and the Far-Right have exacted – the severe psychological wounding of the American soul.
We are not safe anywhere – because Repubs and the Far-Right [and the Stupid Court] want more guns in the hands of more people [rational, decent or not] – based on a BIG LIE of what the Second Amendment meant in 1791. That and a bald violation of the rules of grammar [one is required to read all 3 parts of that sentence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!].

People, misinformed, living in fear, can be manipulated, vote against themselves.

Republican/Far-Right contempt for YOU is symbolized by “election” of THE CON MAN in 2016, with no program other than to enrich himself at YOUR expense. Republican/Far-Right cruelty is represented in the controversy over a pregnant 10-year old girl [and their serious discussion of whether she should have been forced to give birth].

Repubs/Far-Right have PROVEN, repeatedly, for over 50 years, they don’t believe in the words, the spirit, the meaning of the Declaration of Independence.

Keep voting Republican, you’ll get more corruption, more cruelty, more contempt.

• in 1860-61, the physical South seceded from the Union, because of slavery. This had been building since 1820.
  – in 2016-22, the physical and psychological South seceded from the Union again, because of guns, abortion, contraception, and religion. This had been building since 1968.
  
  -Servitude: – the 1861 South wanted Black slavery to continue forever.
  – the 2016-2022 South wanted female servitude to continue forever.
  
  – Cruelty: – the old South wanted to control ALL aspects of Black lives – existence, work family, children, education, possessions.
  – the modern South wants to control women, keep them second class citizens, enact mandatory motherhood.
  
  – “States’ Rights”: – the 1861 South claimed they had a right to maintain Black slavery under the “states’ rights” legal theory
  – the modern South claims it has a right to abolish abortion and ban contraception use under the “states’ rights” theory.
  
  – Fugitive Slave Laws: – the old South demanded fugitive slaves be returned to their owners. The Compromise of 1850 had provisions imposing heavy fines on people who aided slave escapes.
  – the modern South enacts Fugitive Women Acts, “bounty hunters” are allowed to hunt down and prosecute women escaping to free states for abortions or anybody providing contraceptives.
  
  Religion: – old South slavery was “justified” using biblical scripture.
  – modern female reproductive servitude is “justified” using biblical scripture>
  
  -Supreme Court: – the infamous 1857 “Dred Scott” ruling said Blacks couldn’t be citizens, and the Constitution “must be construed now as it was understood at the time of its adoption.”
  – the infamous 2022 “Dobbs” ruling claimed abortion wasn’t in the Constitution, and therefore it wasn’t a protected right.
  
  – Ignorance: – the old South banned educating Blacks; many whites were poorly educated
  – the modern South bans ALL children from learning “disruptive” and inconvenient truths; previously had closed ALL schools in some states to prevent integrated schools.
  
  -Poverty: – in the old South, poor “white trash” led very hard lives; this continued into the 20th century.
  – in the modern South, books and studies like “The Spirit Level” documented the poverty and backwardness of states like Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
  
  -Guns: – in the old South, whites armed themselves against greatly feared potential slave revolts.
  – in the modern South, populations are heavily armed, to “protect their families”, “stand your ground” laws passed, the most heavily armed are white evangelicals.
  
  -Migrants: – in the old South, most European immigrants went to the North, because they didn’t want to compete with zero-wage slaves.
  – in the modern South, early signs are that women are beginning to consider leaving the South because of lost independence of their bodies; corporations in the South now fear a “brain drain” out of talented women.
  
  -Political Party: – the old South had the Democratic Party – phase one, same party
  – the modern South has the Republican Party – phase two, same party
  
  -“Victimization”: – the old South claimed the North was “out to get them”
  – the modern South claims the North is “out to get them”
  
  -Taxes: – the old South didn’t like taxes.
  – the modern South is against taxes that IT pays, especially when this contributes to “socialism”; although Southern counties and states are VERY happy to collect hand outs paid by taxes in the North.
  
  – Myths and Lies: – the old South made up myths about the glories of slave society and that civilization; claimed the 186l-1865 Civil War was ALL the North’s fault
  – the modern South makes up myths and lies about the glories of Southernized civilization; that THEY alone are the “real Americans.”
  
  The Founders compromised on the Constitution, because if they didn’t – the old South said it wouldn’t join the United States of America.
  The Constitution was thus flawed from the very beginning.
  The Union was also flawed from the beginning, the South insisting on preferential treatment for its “peculiar institution.”
  Many Founders were deeply troubled by implications of their Declaration of Independence not being true with the existence of slavery. George Washington freed his slaves at his death, few others did.
  
  Some have said Lincoln shouldn’t be regarded as a hero and great president – because h made a tragic mistake in not letting the old South go its own way>
  
  Throughout American 1789-2022 history, the South has been a source of “cancer” – anti-democratic attitudes and policies emanating from the South have caused trouble, embarrassment, violence.
  
  We arrive at 2022, with the South again causing disunion and division; again demanding the majority bend to their prejudices and zealotry; their politicians again refusing to solve issues majority opinion wants done; again the South creating destructive issues to fester and become even more damaging; above all – demanding that it can keep unwilling people in servitude.
  
  Did Abraham Lincoln make a VERY BIG. MISTAKE????????????????