Good Morning Kids. Well, as Malig-Nancy Pelosi would put it, the Supreme Court hs indeed "gone rogue." Meh it did that over 200 years ago with Marbury v. Madison and quite a number of other horrendous decisions ever since, but this one is right up there, or given the state of play of how our government has operated since the New Deal, is it really all that surprising?
The Murthy v Missouri decision is pathetic and dishonest. Faced with clear evidence that the government had arranged to censor individuals and viewpoints, Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s response was to lead a majority of the court’s leftists in mocking those who sued as idiots because the injury inflicted on them can’t be redressed since it already happened and because the social media platforms are still continuing to censor them even without direct government intervention.
This is the equivalent of “You can’t sue the government for blowing up your house because it already happened and since it failed to reappear, clearly its non-existence could never be attributed to government action.”
To issue her warping ruling, Justice Barrett had to argue that it’s unlikely the government would ever censor social media again.
“It is a bedrock principle that a federal court cannot redress “injury that results from the independent action of some third party not before the court.” Second, because the plaintiffs request forward-looking relief, they must face “a real and immediate threat of repeated injury.” Putting these requirements together, the plaintiffs must show a substantial risk that, in the near future, at least one platform will restrict the speech of at least one plaintiff in response to the actions of at least one Government defendant.”
And what are the odds of that?
THen ask yourself, would any Republican president or bureaucrat ever knowingly utilize their position to strong-arm the media to strip away the first amendment rights of their political opponents. Meh, would they even be given that opportunity and given the political inclinations of much of the media as mere house organs of the the Democrat left in the first place.
The judiciary was compromised long ago when the notion of a "living and breathing Constitution" was put above originalism and the strict reading of the Constitution. That was the fundamental transformation long before Barack Obama was birthed.
And here we are.
So the debate is tonight. Speaking of censorship, it should be quite instructive as to how Fake Tapper and his sidekick will prop up Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants and silence Trump, while hurling have you stopped raping women in Bergdorf's changing rooms yet, kind of questions.
Ugh. On a personal note: for those who have been asking about me, I'm four days into treatment and mercifully not feeling any side effects so far. Thank you for your continued support and prayers.
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