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Sigh… Love the decision last Friday but We’ve been here before.
In the Dred Scott decision, formally Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sandford, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States; and that the Missouri Compromise (1820), which had declared free all territories west of Missouri and north of latitude 36°30′, was unconstitutional. The decision added fuel to the sectional controversy and pushed the country closer to civil war.
Among constitutional scholars, Scott v. Sandford is widely considered the worst decision ever rendered by the Supreme Court. It has been cited in particular as the most egregious example in the court’s history of wrongly imposing a judicial solution on a political problem. A later chief justice, Charles Evans Hughes, famously characterized the decision as the court’s great “self-inflicted wound.”
It took a Civil War to overturn the Supreme Court and bring into reality the Declaration of Independence, “All men are endowed by their creator with unalienable rights.”
In the decision against Roe last Friday, Justice Alito wrote for the majority:
Held: The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives.
For the first 185 years after the adoption of the Constitution, each State was permitted to address this issue in accordance with the views of its citizens. Then, in 1973, this Court decided Roe v. Wade, 410 U. S. 113. Even though the Constitution makes no mention of abortion, the Court held that it confers a broad right to obtain one. It did not claim that American law or the common law had ever recognized such a right, and its survey of history ranged from the constitutionally irrelevant (e.g., its discussion of abortion in antiquity) to the plainly incorrect (e.g., its assertion that abortion was probably never a crime under the common law). After cataloging a wealth of other information having no bearing on the meaning of the Constitution, the opinion concluded with a numbered set of rules much like those that might be found in a statute enacted by a legislature.
In other words, the Supreme Court attempted in Roe to legislate a right into existence. The decision last Friday returns us to the concepts of life and liberty that formed the heart of our constitution the first 185 years after its adoption.
It is critical to note that overturning the Supreme Court, this time around, did not require a Civil War.
Subtly… oh so subtly… in the rush to scream and yell at the Supreme Court, even releasing the Justices’ home addresses in a leftie rag… As the left attempted to intimidate the Supreme court with threats and protests on their front lawns, a new ruling close to the Roe decision is no accident. The Supreme Court just dramatically expanded Americans’ right to bear arms. In a 6-3 opinion, with the court’s Republican-appointed justices in the majority, the court ruled that a New York law that heavily restricts the ability to carry a concealed handgun in public violates the Constitution.
This decision is a big deal. It happened as the left threatened, ranted, and raved while trampling Justice Alito’s flower beds. Previously, the court had only said that the Constitution protected the ability to have a gun inside the home for self-defense. In that decision, which came down in 2008, the justices didn’t rule on how guns carried outside the home could be regulated. It took almost 15 years for the justices to come back to that question, as intimidation and threats flowed at them and their families over the draft Roe Shiitake Mushroom moment. Looking out their living room windows at a real and present threat, The Justices had another superb response. The Second Amendment “protect[s] an individual’s right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home,” wrote Justice Clarence Thomas in the majority opinion for Thursday’s ruling. In my opinion, it is no accident that the Justices ensured Americans’ rights to self-defense the day before they returned decisions of life back to the states and voters. Thank-you Justice Thomas! Just like you probably need to now carry a handgun outside your home for self-defense, I GREATLY appreciate y’all standing up for my right to do likewise. Laws like New York’s, which required people who wanted a license to carry a concealed handgun in public to show they have a good reason, are no longer allowed. All it took was a bunch of leftie nut jobs trampling the Justices’ flower beds to bring home the need to restore 2nd Amendment rights outside our homes.
Last Note - Media quotes, social media, LinkedIn posts and more rely heavily on what the dissent wrote about ‘taking away a constitutional right.’ This is Shiitake Mushrooms, but pro-abortion people lap it up and illogically tap it out as they pour vitriol on this discussion. Let’s go to page 35 of the Decision:
The dissent is very candid that it cannot show that a constitutional right to abortion has any foundation, let alone a “‘deeply rooted’” one, “‘in this Nation’s history and tradition.’” Glucksberg, 521 U. S., at 721; see post, at 12–14 (joint opinion of BREYER, SOTOMAYOR, and KAGAN, JJ.). The dissent does not identify any pre-Roe authority that supports such a right—no state constitutional provision or statute, no federal or state judicial precedent, not even a scholarly treatise. Compare post, at 12–14, n. 2, with supra, at 15–16, and n. 23. Nor does the dissent dispute the fact that abortion was illegal at common law at least after quickening; that the 19th century saw a trend toward criminalization of pre-quickening abortions; that by 1868, a supermajority of States (at least 26 of 37) had enacted statutes criminalizing abortion at all stages of pregnancy; that by the late 1950s at least 46 States prohibited abortion “however and whenever performed” except if necessary to save “the life of the mother,” Roe, 410 U. S., at 139; and that when Roe was decided in 1973 similar statutes were still in effect in 30 States. Compare post, at 12–14, nn. 2–3, with supra, at 23–25, and nn. 33–34.47 The dissent’s failure to engage with this long tradition is devastating to its position.
It did not take a Civil War to overturn Roe, but one might be coming.
Jay
Life, Liberty, and pursuit of happiness flow from the Sinaitic Covenant and must be defended