American Thinker: What a difference one Supreme Court justice makes and who gets to appoint judges. For all his sins, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should always be remembered as the one who legally kept Merrick Garland off the Supreme Court and let President Trump appoint Neil Gorsuch instead. If anyone need a reason to vote more Republicans to the U.S. Senate in November, the rulings on the travel ban and compulsory union dues are two very good ones.
With the travel ban, SCOTUS reaffirmed the primacy of the President on immigration and border security as enshrined in both the Constitution and U.S. law. As Rush Limbaugh noted on his show, President Trump’s travel ban is lawful under 8 U.S Code 1182, and there is ample historical precedent for employing its bestowed authority to ban any class of aliens at any time, for any reason if the President deems the national security of the United States requires it:
Here is number eight US Code 1182, inadmissible aliens. This law was written in 1952. It was passed by a Democrat-controlled Congress, House and Senate, and signed by a Democrat president.
“Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by president. Whenever the president finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, the president may, by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or non-immigrants or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.”
On Wednesday, SCOTUS struck a blow for liberty and free speech when it ruled in another 5-4 decision that union dues can no longer be extracted from members who object to having money forcibly taken from them to support political causes and candidates the employee opposes.
Here is the TJ quote:
“To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
Very to the point, as only TJ is.
Any man that can use Jefferson as the basis for an argument, in his defense, is GENIUS.
MAGA2016
KAG2020TJ
Yertle McTurtle may not be the Majority Leader of our dreams, but credit where credit is due. You take the field with the team you have, and sometimes they do better than you expect. Keep that in mind as you vote in the general election this fall. A swamp elephant is still better than a swamp donkey, and nowhere does the difference matter more than SCOTUS appointments. It’s not too far fetched to imagine Donald Trump getting two or even three more picks even in his first term. This could freeze the left out of the court for a generation – IF he doesn’t have to appease a Schumer-led Senate. I personally would kind of like that. How about you?
“Elections have consequences.” – God-Emperor Hussein I
why is SCOTUS quoting George Jefferson? … “Weezy, you gonna get some black tube steak tonight”
@ΜΟΛΩΝ:
You ain’t right!
Except that McConnell probably thought Hillary would win.
Actually,
No mention of “natonal security”. “[I]nterests”. Any interests, at all.
But another nice try by the United States Chamber of (International) Commerce.