The Runback: "This Is Not a Normal Court"
Joe Biden was wright: this Supreme Court respects the rule of law
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Food For Thought
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The Monday Thought
It’s been a very good month for decisions from the United States Supreme Court.
Just this month, the court has:
Ruled that President Joe Biden’s dictatorial decree on waiving student loans was unconstitutional;
Found that the government cannot compel businesses to create work that violates their values;
Ruled that employers cannot deny an employee a religious accommodation unless it would create a grave hardship for the employer;
Found that race-based admissions procedures at colleges and universities violate the Equal Protection Clause;
Those are just the big cases. Throw in Tyler v. Hennepin County for its discussion about the takings clause too.
These cases, combined with the 2022 NYSRPA v. Bruen and Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decisions, mean it’s been a very good year for jurisprudence in the United States.
President Biden and the Democrats, of course, disagree:
“This is not a normal court,” the president said at the White House when asked whether thought the institution had gone “rogue.”
The president later explained what he meant, saying in an interview with MSNBC that the Court “has done more to unravel basic rights and basic decisions than any Court in recent history.”
“Take a look at how its ruled on a number of issues that have been precedent for 50, 60 years sometimes. And that’s what I meant by not normal,” the president added. “Across the board the vast majority of the American people don’t agree with majority of decisions the court is making.”
That, of course, is not exactly the point of the Supreme Court. But the President is right in one way; unlike recent Supreme Courts that decide to legislative from the bench, the current makeup of the Roberts Court respects the rule of law and decides accordingly.
The Supreme Court is not a popularity contest. It is not an election. It is not American Idol. You don’t win by having the most support. You win by proving to the Justices the issues at hand in the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution. Something can be as popular as you want it to be; it does not make it legal.
The other issue at hand is the age-old Democratic reliance on “precedent.” I would hope Biden would remember that separate but equal from Plessy v. Ferguson was a precedent for 60 years before it was overturned by Brown v. Board; a decision that itself was not “popular” in 1954.
The Supreme Court did not give itself “dictatorial” powers. The Supreme Court merely did exactly what the Constitution says it does; interpret the law. And the Supreme Court, based on the Constitution, confirmed that the government cannot do whatever it wants to do if it violates the Constitution. It does not matter what your intended policy outcome is, you cannot ignore the Constitution just because you want to.
What, specifically, the debacle over loan forgiveness told us something important about the office of the Presidency. The Imperial Presidency is not a thing that exists with impunity. “Stroke of the pen, law of the land” is not a thing that actually exists. Just because a President wills something into existence through Executive Order does not mean that they have the right to do so.
Ironically, Democrats are doing exactly what they always accused Donald Trump of doing; violating the law as a matter of personal convenience.
What’s even wilder about the whole thing is that the Biden Administration had the authority in a section of law the entire time and did absolutely nothing about it, instead relying on the Imperial Presidency to force the issue into existence and hoping that the Court said it was fine.
There’s an age-old adage…..
It’s what Democrats have right now. They have neither the facts nor the law on their side when it comes to the court cases that are giving them so much angst that they are referring to a “dictatorial” Supreme Court. So instead, they vilify, scream, yell, and try to make as many people angry as humanly possible. It is predictable as it is sad….