I can’t help it. The Verizon Yahoos are at it again. As reported in Yahoo, Top Chef judge Gail Simmons has judged the new Texas “heart beat” abortion law and found it lacking in flavor. What? She also must be a Constitutional scholar since she has over ruled the Supreme Court to declare that it is clearly “unconstitutional”. Well, the Supremes 5-4 say otherwise.
But let’s get real here. Roe v Wade should be “Unconstitutional”, but obviously it has not yet been overturned. She has one point, our judges are not all knowing gods. For a long period of time Dred Scott – legalizing slavery – was law of the land. There’s a laundry list of bad SCOTUS decisions. Here are a few:
Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944) upheld internment of citizens of Japanese descent during World War II. – It was war time, and though I never thought much of FDR, even Lincoln did away with Habeas Corpus and shut down newspapers. Civil Rights take a hit during war time.
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857) held that black people were not entitled to the same rights of citizenship as white people. We got the 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments, but we still needed the Civil Rights Act etc. to attempt to right this evil. But never fear, in modern woke America, the only thing to fear is “White Supremacy”…if Dems are able to pack the court like FDR wanted to do, no doubt they will make it legal to not give certain rights to evil white men – especially if they are Republican or Conservative in political leaning.
Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942) and Gonzales v. Raich (previously Ashcroft v. Raich), 545 U.S. 1 (2005) held that the Federal Government could regulate just about anything that could possibly be construed as economic activity. Marx would approve!
Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927) upheld the forced sterilization of people with intellectual disabilities “for the protection and health of the state.” I mean, Take the Jab or lose your Job, Take the Jab or lose your Job…of course, what could go wrong with forcing billions of people to put medicines in their body before these drugs or vaccines are thoroughly tested over a multi-year period – like ALL previous reliable drugs or “vaccines”? And do not dare to object to the Jab – you will be outed. Lose your job. Take the Jab or Lose your Job…has the makings of nice rap song!
Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919) and Dennis v. United States, 341 U.S. 494 (1951) upheld the criminalization of otherwise constitutionally-protected speech.
In Schenck, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., articulated the famous “clear and present danger” standard for prohibiting speech that would otherwise be protected under the First Amendment…
I’ll stop here for a second. Holmes, a darling of the illiberal left Regressives, clearly was an early advocate for Controlling the masses. Later cases watered down this abomination somewhat, but clearly what is going on today with Woke, Cancel, Dox, Censor culture of the Marxist left is surely making Holmes jump for joy in his private place in Hell.
This brings me to what was obviously wrong with Roe. It is clearly ignoring the Ninth Amendment:
But like the issue of slavery, the real problem with unlimited abortion is that it is mass slaughter and morally indefensible. What is the number of murders since 1974? 60,000,000 unborn babies have been slaughtered because women failed to use birth control or decided that a baby would be “inconvenient”. Yes, I know there are cases of rape and some rare instances where an abortion would save the life of the mother, but it is clear that all Roe v Wade did was legitimize and legalize mass murder. So, instead of populating your country with actual Citizens’ babies, we are repopulating the country after all the mass murder of millions of babies – with serfs and Democrat/Globalist voters with our wide open border. Bye, bye Middle Class! We’re not merely on the Road to Serfdom – we are THERE!
You can pass a Supreme court case and make it law, but you can’t make it moral or right. These are men and women on the “High Court”. Mortals. And boy have these judges made mistakes. So, in an upside down way, perhaps our Top Chef judge is right – some laws “should” be Unconstitutional. Like the ones I mentioned above and Roe v Wade.