Joe Doakes, no longer from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nIn Murthy v. Missouri, the Biden administration was accused of unconstitutional infringement of free speech by pressuring social media to suppress stories unfavorable to the administration. A lower court found it was the most blatant act of censorship in American history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Supreme Court sidestepped the issue in cowardly fashion and reversed. The court did not say the government’s action was constitutional, it said citizens have no standing to challenge the unconstitutional action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There’s no such thing as “standing” in the Constitution, it is strictly a made-up rule that courts use to get rid of nuisance cases they don’t want to hear. It’s a convenient way to avoid making hard decisions. Minnesota courts have used it to rule that ordinary citizens have no standing to challenge the governor’s Covid lock down order, even though it cost them their livelihood or landed them in jail. There is simply no legal remedy for those acts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Imagine that Biden stays in the race so Democrats have to steal the election to keep the Bad Orange Man out of power. Imagine that the courts act for this instance as they did in 2020 denying that individual citizens have standing to challenge the result and refusing to hear the merits of the election fraud case. What’s the remedy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If the court is correct citizens have no peaceful remedy within the constitutional system for unconstitutional government action, then the only remedy available is the one the founders exercised: insurrection leading to revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Plenty of rope in the hinterlands and plenty of lamp poles in Washington. No wonder the elites are terrified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
One hopes they are. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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