It’s hardly a secret that the U.S. Supreme Court has been moving further and further away from any moorings it might have had in the Constitution.
But it occurs to me, with the recent ruling against the sovereign state of Texas’ safety restrictions on abortions that it has completely abandoned common sense and reason as well as the law of the land.
The decision by five members of the court Monday to reject Texas’ reasonable safety standards in an industry that has seldom abided by any such concerns shows a majority on the court have their own special standards for protecting abortion at almost any cost and for any reason.
As Justice Samuel Alito put it, the court’s “patent refusal to apply well-established law in a neutral way is indefensible and will undermine public confidence in the court as a fair and neutral arbiter.”
To make the point another way, the Supreme Court has never suggested that safety standards for bearing firearms, a clearly defined constitutional right, somehow infringe on the rights protected by the Second Amendment.
Few reasonable people would even proffer such a notion.
And neither should they suggest that the abortion industry, dedicated, as it is, to the indiscriminate destruction of unwanted unborn babies, should not be subject to any safety regulation by state or local government.
In other words, the Supreme Court is way out of its depth:
- It is acting strictly in a reckless political way;
- It is being completely arbitrary;
- It is making rulings that have no basis in the Constitution and the rule of law;
- It is being irresponsible and applying different standards of logic and reason in its decisions.
What does that suggest?
It suggests to me that sovereign states like Texas should simply ignore such unaccountable and illegal rulings.
This is a rogue court.
At least five of its members have clearly shown they have no respect for the will of the people in sovereign states.
It’s hardly the first time we’ve seen such decisions from this court or previous courts. However, what a stunning decision like this demonstrates is that the court doesn’t even care about precedent, the law or common sense.
Defying such a court is not only justifiable, it is the only reasonable recourse. Obeying such rulings would be as bad as the decision itself.
The U.S. is quickly moving in the direction of oligarchical rule – tyranny.
It shouldn’t matter what your opinion is on abortion – whether you are pro-life or pro-abortion. Capricious rulings like this should make every American’s skin crawl.
Are we to be a nation that operates under the rule of law and the will of the people?
How can we be that kind of nation when five people in black robes can make decisions like this that have no basis in either – decisions that flout the law and the will of the people of a sovereign state?
It was, of course, an earlier Supreme Court that discovered within the “penumbra” of the Constitution a “right” to privacy that is nowhere to be stated, a “right” that somehow mandated that any unborn child could be aborted at any time for any reason or for no reason at all.
Let me tell you something: You don’t need to fantasize about what can be found in the “penumbra” of the Constitution. All you need to do it refer to the preamble of our founding document.
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
It’s clearly states right there that the Constitution protects the rights of “our posterity.” Who are our posterity?
Those not yet born.
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