Conservative court created with these rulings in mind
By Sid Schwab / Herald columnist
Let’s hope readers enjoyed Independence Day. It might be the last one to which the name applies.
In the same way that Trump discovered he could ignore the Constitution at will, the Federalist Society’s hand-picked, McConnell-stolen Supreme Court’s conservative majority has come to realize it can rule however it wishes, precedent and consistency be damned. On parchment anyway, there are restrictions on executive power; but there are practically none on the majority. Trump et mob ignored the quilled rules and did so with impunity; because there are few that apply to them, the Six Injustices realized that, in practice, they have nothing to ignore (Weekly World News: tinyurl.com/court4u)
They’re the dog who caught the car. Except they know exactly what to do with it: chew it up, leaving a smoking (coal smoke) ruin. Why, for example, isn’t same-sex marriage covered under the Fourteenth Amendment? Because Clarence Thomas says so. There are five others.
The Constitution isn’t silent on SCOTUS overreach. Per Article III, Section 2: “[T]he Supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.” In other words, if it had the will, which it doesn’t, Congress could limit what sort of cases the Court can hear; starting, perhaps, with obvious conflicts of interest, like Thomas protecting his insurrectionist wife, Barrett favoring “Americans for Prosperity,” which spent $1 million on her candidacy, Gorsuch siding with Penguin Random House, who’d published his book.
https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/schwab-conservative-court-created-with-these-rulings-in-mind/