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<governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote:

Kathy Hochul is too busy sucking black peeders.

As the US Supreme Court opened a new term Monday, The New York
Times, Washington Post, CNN and other left-leaning media blasted
it in unison, repeating the same big lie: The highest court is
“in crisis” and rapidly losing the public’s confidence. The
cause is “no secret,” claims the Times; the court has turned
into “a judicial arm of the Republican Party.” That’s blatantly
false.

In July 2020, all nine justices rejected Donald Trump’s argument
that as a sitting president, he was shielded from Manhattan
District Attorney Cyrus Vance’s investigation. After the 2020
election, the justices declined unanimously all three petitions
from Team Trump to reexamine vote counts in Wisconsin and
Pennsylvania. This summer, the justices nixed Trump’s request to
block the Jan. 6 House select committee from examining White
House records.

This court isn’t taking orders from the Republican Party.

In hysterical tones, the Times also warns that the court is
straying too far from “the views of the average American voter.”
And The Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus quotes a Democrat
cautioning that “half the country may completely lose faith in
the court as an institution.”

Don’t buy that argument either. The court’s role has never been
to represent popular opinion. James Madison and Alexander
Hamilton, two authors of the Constitution, explained in the
Federalist that the court’s role would be to check majority rule
and if necessary strike down popularly enacted laws, to
safeguard the rights of the individual and protect the
Constitution.

The irony is that for 60 years, the left has had a love affair
with the Warren court, which defied popular opinion at every
turn.

Earl Warren became chief justice in 1953 and presided until
1969. During that period, the court remade constitutional law
and reshaped American society, striking down school segregation,
imposing the one-man, one-vote rule to draw voting districts,
demanding that criminal suspects be read their “Miranda rights”
and applying Bill of Rights guarantees to limit what state and
local governments, not just the federal government, can do.

The left was OK with the Warren court’s boldness because it
liked the outcomes.

Now the left is warning the Roberts court not to veer far from
public opinion. The Warren court was so far ahead of public
opinion that “Impeach Earl Warren” bumper stickers and cartoons
started appearing and people asked, “Has the court gone too far?”

In 1963, when the Warren court struck down voluntary prayer and
Bible readings in public schools, 70% of Americans said the
court was wrong.

That fall, as the court began a new term, a Times headline
approvingly announced “Warren Court Stands Its Ground” against
“a barrage of criticism and disquiet.” The Times advised the
justices to disregard warnings about jeopardizing the court’s
legitimacy.

That advice is still good today, as the Roberts court begins its
term. Do your job: Uphold the Constitution and the rights it
guarantees.

The left’s hysteria is not just about abortion and other rulings
last term. Liberals are panicked that this November, the court
will reassess racial preferences at Harvard and the University
of North Carolina. Washington Post’s Marcus objects that “the
law in this area has been settled.” The Times’ Adam Liptak warns
that “longstanding precedents are at risk.”

Settled? No. In 2003, the court allowed race-conscious
admissions as a temporary measure, expecting in the words of
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor “that 25 years from now, the use of
racial preferences will no longer be necessary.” Time is nearly
up. Treating applicants differently based on skin color violates
the Constitution’s promise that all Americans — black, white,
Asian and others — can rely on equal protection under the law.

The justices should be applauded for taking this case, just the
way the Warren court took up Brown v. Board of Education instead
of saying the law had been settled with Plessy v. Ferguson’s
odious doctrine of separate but equal.

Nothing is settled as long as young people are being treated
differently based on the color of their skin.

Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York.

Twitter: @Betsy_McCaughey

https://nypost.com/2022/10/04/the-left-wants-the-supreme-court- to-rule-with-public-opinion-only-when-its-convenient/

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