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THE GOVERNMENT DERIVED POWERS FROM THE PEOPLE
Jurors have the right to judge the law as well as the facts of a case.
#SCOTUS is an illegitimate court as long as Insurrectionist Clarence Thomas runs refuses to recuse or the others refuse to throw him off/out.
Art. IV Section IV of the Constitution
The Supreme Court seems to be sharply veering against the effort to disqualify Trump. Justices on both the left and right raised sharp Qs about the “extraordinary” ramifications of letting states decide whether a candidate is an insurrectionist.
The Supreme Court is performance art — a corrupt joke stuffed full of theocratic, antidemocratic operatives beholden to religious cults and oligarchs, not the Constitution. If we get through this election this christofascist shitshow will have to be corrected. There’s no choice.
Ginny Thomas was frantically texting Meadows trying to overturn the 2020 election. Ginny Thomas was directly involved in creating fake slates of electors. Many involved have pleaded guilty. Clarence Thomas is conflicted. He must recuse from Trump’s ballot eligibility case.
Ginni Thomas’s texts to Mark Meadows proved that she was a Big Lie fanatic. She even believed the “Biden Crime Family” belonged in “Guantanamo” for “ballot fraud.” And her husband is supposed to be impartial when he rules on whether Trump engaged in insurrection? Nope! no no no.
Interviews and newly unearthed documents reveal that Thomas, facing financial strain, privately pushed for a higher salary and to allow Supreme Court justices to take speaking fees.
David Pepper writes:
Article IV, Section IV of the Constitution.
“Like the disqualification clause, it lays out a clear rule:
“the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government…”
“Shall”
“Guarantee”
No stronger words in law than that.
An ironclad contract.
And with that emphatic and binding promise, what did the Founders mean by “Republican Form” of Government?
Hint: it’s not what the far right thinks.
As scholars of the Founding like Akhil Amar have written at length, the revolutionary concept of “Republican”…
THE PEOPLE HAVE THE LAST WORD. IT ESTABLISHED THE THE PEOPLLE WERE SOVEREIGN. THE GOVERNMENT DERIVED POWERS FROM THE PEOPLE AS MADISON WROTE IN FEDRIST 39 – AND NOT FROM A “FAVORED CLASS.”
This stood in contrast to the system they were tossing out: where the Monarchy, the crown, was sovereign, and where power was fixed as opposed to responsive to the people—and the majority. Basically, what we casually refer to as democratic governance today, where elected officials represent collectively the people of that state, is what they meant.
And it’s what they guaranteed state governments would be.
As Madison explained in Federalist 43, “the superintending government ought to clearly possess authority to defend the system against aristocratic or monarchical innovations.”
So when you hear talk about the powers of state legislatures and “states’ rights,” ALL of that was premised on an assumption that those states ultimately represented the people.
That they exhibited the basics of a Republican Form of government.
Statehouses exercising unfettered power—unaccountable to the people of those states, advancing aristocratic priorities at the expense of the people,
undermining the nation’s new democracy—is precisely the nightmare the Founders feared.
So they gave the federal government the power to step in.”
https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/democracy-guaranteed
To illustrate how rotten it is that Clarence Thomas is there:
Both parties are now asking SCOTUS to decide if Jan 6 constitutes an insurrection.
If they decide it does, in theory they could potentially expose Clarence’s wife to later criminal charges.
See how wrong that is?
Supreme Court could end up deciding (1) sedition is just a matter of opinion (2) trying to overturn a fair election does not disqualify you from running for office (3) no matter the crime, only congress, not the Constitution, can hold a candidate or office holder accountable.
Today’s Ballot Argument: SCOTUS seems to be planning to deliver a very narrow decision leaving Trump on the Ballot. SCOTUS is likely to uphold the DC Circuit decision on No Immunity for Trump! SCOTUS could be setting us up for a real Constitutional Crisis if Trump wins in Nov!
So the Supreme Court can define conception, can define companies as people. But can’t define an armed effort to overthrow the government and stop the peaceful transfer of power as an insurrection?