Supreme letdown

The Friday Letter / No. 486 / April 1, 2022 / Fifth Sunday of Lent

We have argued for some time now that the Supreme Court has a 5-4 liberal majority, Chief Justice John Roberts having moved left as an expression of both his anti-Trump politics and his eagerness to be loved by the Washington Establishment, His sidekick, Brett Kavanaugh, tags along on many of his votes.

Amy Coney Barrett, too, is proving herself a disappointment. Perhaps she wants to assure the Left that she is not the knee-jerk religious fundamentalist her confirmation opponents claimed. Recently she joined Roberts, Gorsuch, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan in upholding a California order that banned singing in a church. So much for that First Amendment thing about keeping the government's nose out of religion.

Now comes David Horowitz, who one-ups us by describing SCOTUS as a 6-3 liberal majority. And yet even conservative writers continue to describe it as 6-3 conservative.

With the certain confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Court's liberal majority, whatever it is, gets added life. On Wednesday, Sen. Susan Collins announced her support. Democrat Joe Manchin, the teaser who usually ends up voting with the Left (see a refreshing exception, below), said he, too, will vote to confirm. She's a shoe-in, even without Romney, Murkowski, and Let-Democrats have-their-way Graham.

“In my view, the role under the Constitution assigned to the Senate is to look at the credentials, experience and qualifications of the nominee,” Collins said. “It is not to assess whether a nominee reflects the individual ideology of a senator or would vote exactly as an individual senator would want.”

Apparently, a nominee's embrace of bigoted, anti-white Critical Race Theory, the thoroughly debunked 1619 Project, and her apologies to rapists and pedophiles for having to send them off for a whopping three months is well within the mainstream of political ideology. Her nomination has been promoted for years by the leftwing pressure group Demand Justice, which supports court-packing.

It defies explanation that even conservative Senators fawn over Jackson's supposed good judicial temperament, she who pretends not to know the difference between a man and woman because she isn't a biologist. As one woman told a reporter, “I'm not a vet, but I know what a dog is.” The difference, we suspect, is that the dog won't be offended. The woke gender fanatics, her constituency, will.

Or that she revealed her ignorance in saying that rights come from the government, not from God as the Founders made clear in the Declaration of Independence. “The Supreme Court has established that the individual right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental right,” she said at a confirmation hearing.

Opinionators and “journalists” (opinion writers in disguise) will keep up this fantasy that the Court is conservative, but the future looks bleak indeed. The only constitutional purists are aging. Thomas is soon 74, and Alito turns 72 today. With nearly three years left in his term, Biden could inflict even more serious damage on our constitution.

It’s a woke world, after all

Forget for a moment that Florida's new Parental Rights in Education bill which the media call the “Don't Say Gay Bill” doesn't contain the word “gay” even once. The Media-Democrats have a problem: They can't criticize the law without lying about it.

Here is the ABC News tweet Tuesday after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill:

BREAKING: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs controversial 'Don't Say Gay' bill into law. The bill bans lessons on sexual orientation or gender identity in some grades.

“Some grades,” like high school juniors, 7th graders? It only applies to children in kindergarten through third grade. Oh.

In fact, the Parental Rights in Education law says nothing about gay people and passes no judgment on them. It's meant to protect tiny children from hearing propaganda on sexuality or the fantasy that one can change one's sex.

Here is an excerpt of Kylee Zempel's piece at The Federalist:

By framing a very narrow age group as “some grades” – something that could just as easily be referring to kids at prom – ABC intentionally diverts attention from the fact that the kids in danger of prematurely learning about “tucking” and “binding” and gay sex are children who still have all their baby teeth and wear pull-ups to sleep. They’re kids who can’t get up from the dinner table until they eat five more bites of peas and who are tucked into bed and sound asleep by 8 p.m. They haven’t the faintest notions of puberty and no idea how mommy gets a baby in her belly. 

The law doesn't prevent anyone from saying the G-word, gay.

“It prevents kindergartners from consuming pornographic picture books at school and five-year-olds from being encouraged in the classroom to consider pronouns that don't correspond with reality,” Zempel writes.

Unsurprisingly, the snowflakes at Disney erupted like Mount Vesuvius. Cowering, the company issued this statement:

“Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts, and we remain committed to supporting the national and state organizations working to achieve that. We are dedicated to standing up for the rights and safety of LGBTQ+ members of the Disney family, as well as the LGBTQ+ community in Florida and across the country.”

In response, DeSantis noted that the interests of Floridians, not “the demands of California corporate executives,” will guide Florida. “They do not run this state,” he said.

Meanwhile, Karey Burke, the president of Disney's General Entertainment unit, announced that 50 percent of characters and content in future films will come from “underrepresented groups” – homosexuals and persons with sexual dysphoria. Quoted by The Daily Mail and others, Burke describes herself “as the mother of two queer children, actually one transgender child and one pansexual child.”

Poor Walt. What would he think?

Election fraud update

Dead voters in North Carolina. Bill Clinton was midway through his second term in 1997 when Hoyle C. Helms, a World War II Navy veteran, died. Twenty-three years later, Mr. Helms was still registered to vote in North Carolina.

An election fraud watchdog called the Public Interest Legal Foundation found that Helms and 12,939 other deceased voters were still on the rolls in Spring 2020. The Social Security Death Index says 95% of them had died before 2020.

The frightening fact is that with 12,940 deceased voters still registered in early 2020, North Carolina ranked only 8th in the nation with bogus registrants.

In a new report released Tuesday, PILF said more than 60,000 North Carolina voters are dead, registered in another state, or registered twice in the state under variations of their name.

The small price of naughtiness. Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign and the DNC will pay fines of $8,000 and $105,000 after the Federal Election Commission found they laundered payments through a law firm for the debunked Russian collusion hoax – not much when you consider it almost handed her the election.

The latest on Biden, Inc.

Senators Grassley and Johnson released bank records that show Hunter Biden's financial ties to companies controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, Just the News reports. The companies are CEFC Energy, now bankrupt, and Hudson West, which paid Hunter Biden a sign-on bonus of $500,000 and then $100,000 a month.

“We may never know all the details of the Biden family foreign entanglements, or the full extent to which those entanglements compromise our current President,” Johnson said. “But I’m pretty confident I know who does know – intelligence operatives in Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea. Elements within U.S. intelligence agencies probably also know; they’re just not going to tell us.”

How they voted

Democrats Manchin (W. Va.) and Sinema and Kelly (Ariz.) voted with all 50 Republicans to kill David Weil's nomination to head the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division. Weil held the same position under Obama. A dean at Brandeis University, Weil faced opposition from small business with his belief that corporations are liable for the actions of their franchisees. – from a story at The New York Post.

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For further reading

“Making Trump Great Again” by James Anthony

“Trump signed off on swollen government budgets, didn’t force roll-call votes to fully repeal Obamacare, welcomed 'Dreamers,' championed ill-conceived criminal justice 'reform,' and greatly expanded public-health tyranny.”

This is from a guy who seems to want Trump re-elected, and he's as critical of the former president as anyone. We link to this piece by James Anthony at American Greatness because we have made some of the same arguments ourselves. Anthony is not a political consultant or lawyer but a chemical engineer who has published widely in the conservative press on politics and policy.

Anthony says Trump needs to clean house in the federal bureaucracy or get out of the way and let someone else do it. He wants the next president to veto any bill that is unconstitutional, and to fire the bureaucrats – every one of them – who are destroying the country. “To be a great president, Trump would need to set aside the wars of words he relishes. Instead, Trump will have to make his actions speak for him,” Anthony says. Requirement number 1: Stop listening to his family.

“Disney Executives Admit: Of Course We're Grooming Your Children” by Elle Reynolds

Lest there be any misunderstanding, Disney executives are forthright in acknowledging that their mission is to indoctrinate young children in homosexual theology and to recruit them for membership.

“. . .multiple executives and employees from the Walt Disney Company admitted their own personal missions to deluge 5- to 9-year-olds with as much of their own sexual ideology as possible,” Elle Reynolds writes at The Federalist.

“Our leadership over there has been so welcoming to my, like, not-at-all-secret gay agenda,” said Latoya Raveneau, an executive producer for Disney Television Animation. “I was just, wherever I could, just basically adding queerness … No one would stop me and no one was trying to stop me.”

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