During civil wars people often find out who they have been at war with for some time. Such is the case with the judiciary attempting to block everything the Trump administration does. Such is the case with Chief Justice John Roberts. While he has been long a thorn in the sides of conservatives, often siding with the opposite ideology on decisions, he’s largely protected by simply being appointed by George W. Bush. That is the caveat that doesn’t hold much water with those on the right. George W. Bush is someone who has been working against the right for a long time.
The latest example was Roberts coming out with an X post lecturing Trump on the appellate process. Roberts, himself, should be removed from the bench. He is a tired, frightened little man without the courage to face important constitutional questions. He was largely responsible for refusing to look at election-rigging cases and is completely willing to allow the left to do whatever it chooses when it comes to blocking Trump’s legitimate actions that the people overwhelmingly favor. An investigation by the new FBI should expose Roberts for his actions that, I believe, are in violation of the law, morality and decency.
The internal war within the Republican party is playing out both in the Supreme Court and the Senate more obviously than in the House. The American people cannot fight the corruption and illegal actions of politicians and judges if they are constantly stymied by the Supreme Court. At some point, the people have to recognize that it is the Supreme Court that is also corrupt, not merely a technical hurdle.
I’ve often tried to remind readers that the Supreme Court has almost always been wrong on the big issues. It has often reviewed cases it has ruled on and framed a slightly different way, overruled those previous decisions. Roe v Wade comes to mind. The Supreme Court is generally incorrect on many different stances, because, and especially with the Roberts court, it attempts to remain idle when it needs to act and act when it should remain idle. Such as the case a few weeks ago, when it ruled that a contract signed and fulfilled should be paid, restraining Trump from stopping all funding until each expenditure could be evaluated. The Supreme Court should simply have refused to hear the case. But they didn’t. Instead, they signaled that they would not side for the objectives of the Trump administration’s attempts to reduce government agencies, departments and spending overall. This is what one would expect from Katanji Brown Jackson and Roberts is seeming more like her every day.
But it is more relevant to the internal civil war in government. Whose side is one on? I encourage the new FBI to examine in extreme detail the actions of Roberts to determine if he is being blackmailed, coerced or otherwise manipulated by the CIA, FBI or foreign governments.
These are the rugged, necessary fights that must take place and again, I’m not sure Trump is capable of this sort of fight. I’m not sure very many in upper echelons of government are, at least not on the right. We witnessed the blood-thirsty vengeance the left was willing to execute against Trump. Our side has no real fighters in that sense. They don’t even understand the issues from my point of view.
This is what I warned about, the dark civil war, the one going on inside office buildings in DC, in other countries, all too willing to help derail the presidency, because in Trump they see the populist uprising all of these totalitarians fear more than anything else. When Trump did not make arresting and convicting those involved in the abuse of the legal system directed toward him, but let it play out now on every executive order, every attempt to exert his presidential power, he let it go too far and we’re stuck with the consequences.
Like it, or not, these are battles that must be waged. Everyone sat on their duffs when Biden’s staff were writing novels with the autopen and taking direction from Susan Rice, including Republicans, but the minute Trump actually signed executive orders it was a constitutional crisis.
I know, and everyone reading this knows, that the system is rigged against conservatives, MAGA or America First, we can’t even come together on that. My use of “conservatives” comes with a smirk, because I don’t want to associate with the establishment Republicans, but sometimes, it’s the best word to cover the wide and ever-expanding definition of those who want the restoration of rights accomplished by the deconstruction of government. We may not even like Elon. I’ve always considered him a clever dealer, getting governments to invest in his projects and taking the profits to build other things the government could fund, but in his role as exposer of all things wasteful and fraudulent, I’m with him.
One reason for the documentary I proposed in the last post was to make all of this clear to anyone who watched it, to see the connections and to focus on the goal of deconstructing the government bureaucracies. If not in Trump’s time, after it. It should be its own political party, or faction of a party, the Deconstruction wing. It’s that important, not just to avoid fraud and mismanagement, but to stave off a complete economic meltdown of epic proportions. This is something the House and Senate seem oblivious of, or complicit in, ensuring it takes place.
Meanwhile, watching the battles rage within the bureaucracies and courtrooms can be taken with a grain of salt, but the rhetoric of deconstruction, valuable to politicians working for or against it, must become a rally cry for all of those suffering from their inaction or stupid actions.
When you think of how absolutely ridiculous the position on the left is, this appears to be an excellent chance to change everything. They have aligned themselves with the most violent criminal aliens, with drag queen story hour, with men in women’s sports, with wasteful and fraudulent spending, with sending billions to nations antagonistic to the United States and its people. They are now in favor of judicial supremacy when they so recently decried the invalidity of the Supreme Court. They are at their lowest historical approval because of it. This is why these battles need to be engaged here and now, regardless of whether or not Trump endorses it, it must be a battle cry for the citizens and force action.
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As we move forward in this period of the. great disruption that is required to stem corruption, abuses of power, and government waste, we cannot let the judiciary off the hook Every element of our governmental system should be challenged to ensure we find every bit of waste, fraud and abuses. Roberts is no exception. I know disruption is tough. Look at this phase of change as if you are standing on the edge of a canyon, and you must cross to the other side. The only way across is a simple rope bridge. The bridge is frightening, but you must cross that bridge to get to the other side. You must suck it up, face your fears and meet the challenge of crossing.
This is were we are now. We are crossing that bridge of disruption that will allow us to defeat waste, fraud, and abuses by our polltical class. So Americans, suck it up and cross that bridge. You will be happy you did! Knife out!
Trump should do what AG Roger Taney advised Andrew Jackson to do - "If the opinion of the Supreme Court covered the whole ground of this act, it ought not to control the coordinate authorities of this Government. The Congress, the Executive, and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others. It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of the President to decide upon the constitutionality of any bill or resolution which may be presented to them for passage or approval as it is of the supreme judges when it may be brought before them for judicial decision. The opinion of the judges has no more authority over Congress than the opinion of Congress has over the judges, and on that point the President is independent of both. The authority of the Supreme Court must not, therefore, be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve." https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/does-congress-have-the-power-under
The Judiciary, Legislative, and Executive Branches are *separate*, *equal*, and *independent* - it matters not a whit what the courts say, they do not control the Executive. They may refuse to enforce a law, but they cannot guide the hand of the Executive or restrain his action - such a thing would be unconstitutional and ultra vires - and the dicta in Marbury v Madison, that the courts shall rule, is an arrogation of illegitimate power by the Federalist John Marshall... see https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/neither-president-trump-nor-his-appointed