Saturday, June 25, 2022

The Roberts' Court's zealots weaponized the Fourteenth Amendment.

It is gross malpractice intended to please The Federalist Society (click here for image below).

The Fourteenth Amendment addresses many aspects of citizenship and the rights of citizens.  The most commonly used -- and frequently litigated -- phrase in the amendment is  "equal protection of the laws", which figures prominently in a wide variety of landmark cases, including Brown v. Board of Education (racial discrimination), Roe v. Wade (reproductive rights),  Bush v. Gore (election recounts), Reed v. Reed (gender discrimination),  and University of California v. Bakke (racial quotas in education). 

The Fourteeth Amendment

Section 1

All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. 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.

Women are citizens of the USA. Women have the right to vote with the ratification of the 19th Amendment (click here).

Section 2

Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

Well, women are counted in the USA Census that creates the number of US Representatives in the US House of Representatives. So, far I don't see where the Supreme Court has found new enlightenment to treat women as second class citizens.

Women has been serving this country in the military since 1948 (click here) and in combat since 2015 (click here). I am nto finding the fantasy that Alito wrote yet.

Section 3

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

I am still not seeing Alito's dreamscape.

Section 4

The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

Alito has continued his delusion. 

Section 5

The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

The Roberts' Court is guilty of gross malpractice for the purpose of instilling a theocracy for political purposes. Clarence Thomas makes if very, very plain the focus of the six incompetent member majority will destroy the rights of Americans until the population and it's IDENTITY matches the value system of the White Evangelicals that have paid mightly for it.

I see no competency here for the six rebellious justices with their only allegiane to the Christian Evangelical Bible. 

It is time for the US Congress to hold hearings. This is malpractice of the law and the Roberts' Court believes they are above the US Constitution.

We currently have an Attorney General that should have been sitting on the Supreme Court today.