Supreme Update

Through yesterday (Tuesday), the Supreme Court of the United States has issued 11 opinions this term.  Nine of the decisions have been unanimous (including concurring opinions).  So, notwithstanding all of the crap being spewed by the biased news media, the Supreme Court is not in disarray. They are more united than they have been in years.

Most Supreme Court decisions overturn lower courts or affirm intermediate appellate courts that overturned trial courts.  Because the Supremes can only hear a small number of petitions each year, they accept the cases with the most compelling improper results.

What the news media should do is point out that the Judicial Branch of the federal government is the most efficient, most honorable, and most just of the three branches. Anyone attacking the Court itself is either ignorant or corrupt. Often both.

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Probably the most ignorant and definitely the most corrupt attacker is China Joe himself.  His babbling about “returning to Roe v. Wade” is totally baseless. In Roe the Supreme Court divided the pregnancy term into three trimesters. States were given unlimited authority to prohibit abortions in the third trimester and limited authority to prohibit abortions in the second trimester.

With the average term of pregnancy being 40 weeks, states prohibiting abortion after 15 weeks are still within the outlines of the Roe decision. That is why I commented several times that the Supremes could have reached the same result in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization without outright overturning Roe.

They would have been better served by pointing out the perversions of the Roe opinion in other appellate cases and reinstated the rights of states outlined in Roe to “proscribe” (prohibit) late-term abortions.  Not only would that have helped point out the lies on television but it also could have better protected the Court’s image and would have been consistent with the beliefs of the vast majority of Americans.

What Joe and the Democrats are promoting is nothing close to “returning to Roe v. Wade.”  They are promoting a mother’s right to kill her baby long after it is capable of surviving without her.

I have many friends who support abortion rights.  Not one of them thinks it is acceptable to abort a baby in the third trimester.  Yet, the manipulative Democrats are inciting people into voting for unlimited murder rights. That is the real injustice.

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This week’s unanimous Supreme Court opinion concerned the FBI’s abuse of its power.  FBI v. Fikre was a case filed by Mr. Yonas Fikre, a U.S. Citizen and conservative businessman, after the FBI placed him on its “No-fly list.”  In what became a regular practice during the Obama administration, the FBI waited until Fikre flew out of the USA on a business trip to place him on the list.  In doing so it effectively prevented him from returning home.

From their very first meeting at the U.S. Embassy, the FBI admitted that they were not really concerned about Mr. Fikre but wanted him to spy for them on other members of the Portland Oregon mosque he attended. They offered to remove him from the list only if he became an FBI informant.  Wow! They denied an innocent citizen his freedom to try to get him to do something he did not want to do.

From 2009 until 2015, Fikre fought the FBI’s unfounded complaint to no avail.  Stuck in Sweden, he then filed a lawsuit for declaratory relief and to have the court prohibit the FBI from continuing to undermine his freedom without due process of law.  In 2016, facing a loss in court and an incoming Trump Administration, the FBI dropped its unfounded restriction and then moved to dismiss Fikre’s case.

Although there was no longer a “controversy” the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with Fikre that the FBI needed to be stopped from doing this again to him and to other people it did not like.  After all, the FBI denied him the right to return home for seven years.

All nine Supremes agreed that the FBI’s ability to continue this immoral practice (which they are doing again in the Harris-Biden Administration) kept alive the controversy.  In short, the FBI could not avoid being spanked by backing down after seven years of destroying someone’s life.

What the court did not address and voters should address is why in the hell are our elected “representatives” not putting a stop to the FBI’s continued abuse of its power.

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In Lindke v. Freed, last week’s unanimous opinion, the Supremes held that a public official can delete and block comments on their personal Facebook pages unless the page is tied to their official position and duties. The opinion points out how radical trolls would overwhelm the personal pages of public officials they did not like with long, redundant, irrelevant, and repetitive comments.

The decision is another victory for freedom.  It does not prevent anyone from expressing their own views on their own pages.  It allows government officials to prevent parasites from harassing them by destroying their legitimate personal pages.

The Democrats are furious.  Their “Brown-Shirt” tactics are necessary to their fascist plans. I wonder, 100 years from now will it be as offensive to call someone a “Democrat” as it is to call someone a “Nazi” today? 

Thank God we still have an independent Supreme Court.

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