While I tend to avoid screaming headline issues and am successful with it most of the time, this is one of the exceptions, the threat against Texas by the Biden administration.
The barest of facts go like this. Biden, implementing the directions of his masters and handlers, facilitates an open border since his inauguration, flaunting the immigration laws of the land, allowing in, up to about twenty million ‘immigrants’ without the vetting proscribed by law. Texas, led by Governor Abbott has had enough and erects various barriers, including razor wire at one certain park. Biden has a court rule that it must come down. Texas appeals and it goes to the Supreme Court. Even with a ‘conservative’ majority, they rule in favor of the Biden administration. Texas say ‘no’, keeps the razor wire, erects even more, defying the Supreme Court, a hugely unprecedented affront. Biden threatens action. His allies suggesting even seizing the Texas National Guard. 25 states make resolutions supporting Texas and at least 10 of those states are sending their own national guard to assist Texas even as I write this. Today, 1/26/24, supposedly was D-day. Apart from Biden killing some big gas deal, he – his masters and handlers – appear to blink. But will tomorrow be the next civil war?
To get this out of the way, I support Texas, Abbott, and the constitutional basis he’s cited for his resistance. I support the reinstatement of and the proper place of state’s rights, after that having been thoroughly trampled by generations of those amassing federal power. It must stop here.
Beyond this, I must comment on just one aspect that’s been largely neglected over the past 48 hours; the decision by John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett, to join the leftist on the Supreme Court. Everyone is shocked obviously, or maybe not. Roberts is a known ‘centrist’, regularly disappointing his more conservative peers. Barrett has failed at surprising key moments. I have no doubt they have their ‘reasons’ having to do with dotted ‘i’s and crossed ‘t’s in the constitution, but the bottom line here is that they are susceptible to the opinion of factions, and more so, respond in fear to threats from some of those factions. Be assured, they, especially Roberts, Barret, and I could also add Kavanaugh for some decisions, are not mere austere technicians of language muttered in the constitution of the United States.
In the aftermath of the 2020 election, they had the option to accept or reject matters of the highest constitutional importance dealing with Biden’s theft of the election and Trumps challenge. They punted out of fear of having to both please and deny one side or the other. We got January 6 as a result. They eventually got a literal assassination attempt and death threats by the left-wing activists over subsequent decisions, literally encouraged by Senate leader Schumer and by Biden.
I’m not exactly sure who and what Roberts and Barrett feared this time, but I suspect they did not anticipate ‘civil war’ in the stack of cards they pulled from. Personally, I believe it more likely that Biden will fold and his ‘team’ (Obama) will expedite Biden’s departure even before the election. Even for them, I don’t think this was in their game plan and they did not prefer to face an open rebellion and their subsequent humiliation right now, not over some razor wire, but here we are. Yet again, they underestimated the degree to which ‘Joe could f**k things up’.
I wonder if Roberts and Barrett wish they could take this one back?
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