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Tuesday, March 05, 2024

ORIGINAL INTENT

 A thought occurred to us worthy of discussion. 

The authors of the Fourteenth Amendment, those holy men whose intent must be devised and divined from the historical clues they left us, wrote Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to make ineligible from holding office anyone who engaged in insurrection against the United States. 

The current group of five of six conservative justices on the Supreme Court [hereinafter Gang of 5 to 6] wrote that article three cannot be applied until Congress enacts laws to explain how section three should be applied. In other words, section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment was meaningless when written, and will continue to be meaningless until Congress enacts additional legislation. The section is not self-executing and cannot be used until Congress does more. 

Is there any other part of the Constitution that was meaningless upon ratification without more from Congress? 

The Gang of 5-6 decide nothing that is not consistent with original intent. Thus, the Gang of 5-6 are saying that those who wrote section 3, and the States that ratified it as an amendment to the Constitution, all agreed that they were enacting a meaningless section without further action. 

Interesting that for the first and only time, the Supreme Court has devised and divined that the framers of a part of the Constitution wrote something that they did not intend to be effective without more. 

Hmmmm......

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

It appears that your blind adherence to leftist principles has hindered your ability to read English

Anonymous said...

There is a legal saying.... A right without a remedy."

Anonymous said...

Nikey Halley just called the Shumie on her campaign. Who will save us now ?

Anonymous said...

Not so so fast. cowboy. She and DeSantis both SUSPENDED their campaign. Did not end it. Which means if fatso face is in a NYC jail by June they are both viable candidates.

Politics is littered with campaigns who came back after someone called the Shumie.

Just stand by.

Anonymous said...

Trump =Fatso face.

LMFAO

Anonymous said...

Shumie Shumie coco puffs.
Shumie Shumie Shumie.

Anonymous said...

Art.14, sec. 5, Art 15, sec 2, Art. 19, sec. 2, Art 24, sec 2.

Anonymous said...

The same thinking applies to "a well-regulatated militia . . . " so they focus only the "operative" language, effectively ruling that the other constitutional language is "inoperative." Pick and choose which parts of the constitution apply.

Anonymous said...

I've been saying for years that this is what inevitably happens when you load up the Supreme Court with a bunch of conservative Jesuit educated, Leonard Leo/Federalist Society vetted Catholics. Time for some diversity on SCOTUS.