Did our Supreme Court just light the fuse to blow up the country—again? The Court did it once before, and its ruling on immigration Friday may lead to serious consequences.
In 1857, Chief Justice Roger Taney (pronounced “Tawny,” btw) wrote the majority opinion in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford—and helped set off the Civil War. Scott was a slave who claimed that, having been taken to Illinois, a non-slave state, he had been automatically freed by his master. Taney looked at the Constitution, which in those days had just 12 amendments, and decided Scott couldn’t bring the suit because he wasn’t a citizen of this or any other country. In fact, Taney wrote, slaves were “persons whom it was morally lawful to deal in as articles of property.” By that reasoning, the Court might as well accept a lawsuit from a kitchen table or somebody’s milk cow as from a slave.
The ruling infuriated people living in non-slave states. To top it all off, the same opinion invalidated the Missouri Compromise of 1820 that had allowed slavery to spread westward, which infuriated slaveholding Southerners. Three years later, the election of Abraham Lincoln instantly led to secession and war.
Last week the Court ruled that the Trump Administration couldn’t use a law from the 1700s to deport people who’d entered the country illegally. The administration had claimed the Alien Enemies Act allowed it to summarily deport thousands of gang members from Venezuela to their home country because those men had been deliberately sent here in a way that constituted an invasion.
The Court placed an injunction against the deportations and said it would stay in place until the Fifth Circuit Court (which covers Texas) made a new decision in the case that suited Chief Justice John Roberts’s desires. Thus opponents of deportation get more months to gum up the works of the Department of Homeland Security.
News reports on the case mentioned that the Alien Enemies Act was a “rarely invoked wartime law” and “centuries old,” as if laws somehow start losing their strength the moment they’re passed. Brown versus Board of Education was decided 70 years ago, but that doesn’t mean that states can now re-segregate half their public schools.
The coverage mostly ignored the main question brought up by the case, which is whether more than 10 million foreigners entering the country illegally in four years constitutes an invasion. You can argue that it is not because these people haven’t acted en masse to take over the country, but if 10 million German men had entered the country between 1939 to 1941, people wouldn’t have waited until they started shooting to consider themselves invaded.
Having allowed all these people to come into the country and start collecting benefits, Democrats are now trying to slow-walk their deportations to guarantee millions more Democratic votes in the future. That’s clear from the secret flights made to carry new arrivals all over the country, including the seven swing states currently necessary to win the presidency. If these people can’t be quickly deported by the thousands, not only will they stay but the threat of deportation won’t be strong enough to get others to go home voluntarily.
That may seem like a win for Democrats and it might have been ten or twenty years ago, but what we’ve seen in the past five years has changed things. We know American money helped finance the invention of Covid, and that it didn’t come from a Chinese bat. We know the development of the vaccine was a disaster and that hundreds of billions were wasted in government programs to offset the costs of mandatory shutdowns of schools and businesses. We know there was collusion between Democrats and social media that affected millions of votes in 2020 and contributed to a stolen election. We know Joe Biden suffered dementia from the day he took office and that the media and government colluded to cover it up. We know that Biden almost never signed his executive orders; instead an Autopen was used, and it’s quite possible Biden wasn’t even aware he’d “signed” many of them. The list goes on. Conservatives are no longer going to be fooled by cover stories in Time magazine or profiles on CNN charging we believe in false “conspiracy theories.” Like the old rhyme about the pussy cat, we have been to London and seen the Queen. Stop lying to us.
Donald Trump won a majority of the reported vote; no doubt he did much better in actual votes cast. If the Deep State doesn’t soon allow the will of the people to be carried out quickly and efficiently, there will be hell to pay.
Chief Justice Roger Taney would understand.
The Deep State will NEVER “allow twill of the people”. Excellent article but with a weak ending!