The withering last line of defense
The Friday Letter / 432
A Friday Letter reader wants to know if Supreme Court Justices made a sweetheart deal with Democrats: We won’t hear any of the 86 election fraud cases if you promise not to expand SCOTUS with four additional Democrats. This kind of talk gets conservatives banned from publishing platforms. We said far less to get dumped by MailChimp last month.
So let others speak. In his dissent of the Court’s 6-3 ruling denying review of two lawsuits, against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the state’s Democrat Party, Justice Thomas notes that the Constitution “gives to each state legislature authority to determine the ‘manner’ of federal elections.”
Further, “The Pennsylvania Legislature established an unambiguous deadline for receiving mail-in ballots: 8 p.m. on election day. Dissatisfied, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court extended that deadline by three days. The court also ordered officials to count ballots received by the new deadline even if there was no evidence – such as a postmark – that the ballots were mailed by election day.”
On March 8 SCOTUS rejected the last election case from 2020, Trump v. Wisconsin Election Commission. At all judicial levels, 86 cases were filed, and the courts denied certiorari on every one of them. That is, they didn’t hear evidence in a single case. See Bob Anderson’s analysis at The Federalist.
Absent waterboarding, we’ll never know if SCOTUS struck a deal with the devil. Dick Morris, who has an abysmal record on predicting election outcomes while remaining immensely entertaining for his insider knowledge and lively style, thinks it’s a matter of intimidation, not conspiracy. His comments at Newsmax TV may be what caught our reader’s attention.
“I think that they floated the idea of court packing during the election,” Morris said on Greg Kelly Reports. “This is all a device by the Democrats to neuter and intimidate the Supreme Court. And that’s why you have an unbroken series of anti-Trump rulings, including the important one today which was to deny certiorari on the Pennsylvania case.” Implied threats included rotating justices and a mandatory retirement age.
This we do know: Only Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch stood for the rule of law. The four liberals – Roberts, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan – we can explain. Kavanaugh and Barrett, we can’t. Trump must be scratching his head.
Wouldn’t Tom Jefferson be proud
Someone should speak with Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam about that equal protection under the law thing. We wonder: Do they teach archaic, racist concepts like 14th Amendment protections at Virginia Military Institute, Northam’s alma mater?
Last year the Virginia General Assembly granted in-state tuition to illegal aliens – being defined as a person who committed a crime against the United States upon placement of one foot inside our border without our permission. (I said our permission, not Joe Biden’s.)
Now the legislature will give them financial aid. Says the governor, these two laws will “boost civic engagement and help us continue building a stronger, more inclusive commonwealth.”
When government grants a special privilege to one class of people whose only qualification is to have committed a crime, others have been discriminated against. Like we have a habit of saying now and then, a law degree shouldn’t be required to understand a simple concept like that written in the 14th Amendment:
“No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Government is corrupt when it takes money from citizens and puts it into the hands of foreign criminals. See more at Just the News and Townhall.
Short takes on the news
How headline writers earn their pay. At Just the News: “GoFundMe to pay off Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan's $10M mortgage comes up $9,999,890 short” . . . And why people don’t trust the media when they see opinion disguised as news, like this headline at USA Today: “Dissent by Justice Thomas in election case draws fire for revisiting baseless Trump fraud claims.” Here is a fact that is not baseless: Trump won 2,475 counties, Biden 477. . . .
Alaska Republicans will challenge liberal Lisa Murkowski in the 2022 primary. They censured her for voting to impeach President Trump and for her overall lefty voting record, a lifetime score of 45 from the American Conservative Union. Republicans plan to challenge a slew of other Never-Trump and liberal Senators as well. . .
An atheist organization called the Secular Student Network sues to overturn Trump’s order that prohibits colleges from discriminating against religious student groups, Campus Reform reports. . . .
Just in time. From Just the News: “Months after Trump complaints, some courts are finding irregularities in 2020 elections. Michigan, Wisconsin and Virginia court actions show some absentee ballot procedures imposed by Democrats violated state laws.”
Social service agency on the seas
You have to wonder if any of these egg-headed armchair admirals would know how to command a garbage scow. Social activism has long been a ministry of the U.S. Navy. Remember the Love Boat, when 36 women turned up pregnant on the supply ship USS Acadia during the Persian Gulf War? Not only has the Navy been creative in explaining how pregnant women contribute to combat readiness, it does it straight-faced, without embarrassment.
As the New York Times reported in 1991, “The Navy has strict rules against sexual relationships between men and women while on duty or between commissioned officers and enlisted personnel, but Commander Smallwood said there was no evidence any such regulations were broken.” Was it divine intervention?
Let’s just all agree that the U.S. military is a political organization whose mission has strayed from national defense to providing career opportunities for women and other party-identified victims.
It’s difficult to understand how someone who actually commanded two destroyers could fill his day finding anti-American propaganda to force on the naval officers under him, and that is all of them. Admiral Michael Gilday is the Chief of Naval Operations.
As reported at The Blaze, “The Navy came under fire earlier this year upon revelations that some of the books included in its 2021 Chief of Naval Operations Professional Reading Program had nothing to do with military history or strategy, but instead educated readers on cultural topics such as anti-racism and gender identity.
“One book in particular, titled How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, drew intense scrutiny for its characterization of America as a fundamentally racist country.” Kendi is a leftwing author.
Gilday is a Naval Academy graduate. Perhaps future CNOs will Master of Social Work degrees from the University of Wisconsin.
The Friday Letter is updated later Friday at The News-Guardian.