Renee Parsons
If there is one reason for Americans to support the 2024 re-election of Donald J. Trump, it is three recent Supreme Court decisions, each are of judicially monumental proportions, which have provided sufficient cause to make certain Trump’s election becomes a reality.
As the Democrats have revealed themselves to be more aligned with a Marxist government, pretend President Joe Biden’s debate performance confirmed the fear that there is a no-one-home presence in the Oval Office.
The lack of a functioning, intellectually absent President should strike fear in the heart of every patriotic American as the war in Ukraine continues to escalate with NATO encouraging Europe to draft its sons and daughters in preparation for WW III.
For those experts like Col. MacGregor and Scott Ritter, it is clear that the US is no longer the military power it once was; nor has the US developed the sophisticated weaponry necessary to compete with the Russians hypersonic generation.
Biden’s inability to close the southern border, allowing millions of highly suspect military aged illegals into the US, unvetted with unknown whereabouts and with nefarious intentions is another inexplicable act by the Democratic Biden who fails to grasp the most elementary aspects of being President.
This is not to say that Trump is a perfect Presidential candidate any more than most have their own flaws but Trump’s appointments of Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Comey Barrett and especially the brilliant Neil Gorsuch as Associate Justices have increased the Court’s intellectual and Constitutional grasp of a perspective that has been missing for too many decades.
The trio joined Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Chief Judge John Roberts who is, at heart, nominally a conservative as the 6-3 margins are a welcome measure of a Court which finally understands its duty to preserve America’s historic commitment to liberty, freedom and justice under the US Constitution.
By comparison, Biden’s debate performance accomplished identifying Trump as a mature, rational candidate who did not interrupt or offer snarky insults to challenge Biden on every utterance.
So while Trump largely held his own in comparison, he received a pass that his administration achieved the “greatest economy we have ever seen” without mention of an $8.4 trillion increase in the US debt.
His lack of real knowledge on international geopolitical foreign affairs was especially apparent regarding the future of the Palestinians. To date, over 38,000 Palestinians have been slaughtered by Israel’s unrestrained response to a questionable October 7th attack causing a massive humanitarian response.
In answer to Dana Bash’s question (38:00) “would you support an independent Palestinian state in order to achieve peace in the region?’
Trump’s response: “I would have to see but before we do that; the problem we have is that we spend all the money, so they kill us on trade, I had great trade deals with European nations because if you add them up, they’re about the same size economically. Their economy’s about the same size as the United States. And they don’t want anything we have, we’re supposed to take their cars, their food, their everything, their agriculture. I changed that but the big thing I changed is that they don’t want to pay and the only that he can play game with NATO is that I got them to put up hundreds of billions of dollars. I said, and he’s right about this. I said I’m not going to support NATO if you don’t pay. They asked me that question. If you don’t guard us against Russia; at a very secret meeting of the 28 state nations at that time, and I said, no, if you don’t pay I wont do that. And you know what happened, billions and billions of dollars came flowing in the next day and the next months. But now we’re in the same position. We’re paying everybody’s bills.”
Clearly, if watching the entire debate, Trump was still responding to the previous question on NATO but never clearly answered the question about statehood for Palestine.
It is of course no secret that Trump, in his first term, proved to be a loyal Zionist to Israel. His devotion has only increased as the Israeli have been financially generous to his re election with Marion Adelson, among others, providing substantial support.
His response to a direct question about the Gaza war:
“Actually, Israel is the one (that wants to keep going), and you should let them go and let them finish the job. He (Biden) doesn’t want to do it. He’s become like a Palestinian but they don’t like him because he’s a very bad Palestinian. He’s a weak one,”
Those Supreme Court decisions that were announced at the very end of their term before summer break included confirmation that Presidential immunity exists for every official Presidential Act. This decision is the Court strengthens Presidential privilege in returning to the Framers vision of Presidential authority. In other words, if the President is addressing the Boy Scouts, that is a bona fide official Presidential act.
The Court’s ruling affirmed that the President cannot be prosecuted for actions related to his core powers as President including his speech at the Capitol hill rally on January 6th.
In addition, the Court also overturned the Chevon doctrine which curtails the power of federal agencies administered by thousands of unelected bureaucrats who have assumed the power to interpret legislation with Courts relying on that interpretation as if the administrative state had become the fourth branch of Federal government. Dr. Anthony Fauci is one example of an unelected bureaucrat who assumed a powerful position far beyond his authority. For instance, with a pond or water source on your property, the EPA may insist on compliance with the Clean Water Act or even NEPA requirement consistent with Federal law.
The Court also released their decision upholding the Fischer Complaint, that the charge of “obstruction of an official proceeding” did not apply to the January 6th event; affirming that obstruction was only relevant on evidence tampering or destruction of documents. It is anticipated that the decision may impact 300 Americans already sentenced on Obstruction and will also impact charges brought by alleged Special Council Jack Smith against Trump.
There is little doubt that had Trump not made the aforementioned Court appointments, none of these three Decisions would have been Approved as each will incrementally increase the country as a Democratic Republic.
However, if the Biden Administration defies the Court rulings, who will enforce, who will initiate the arrests. If Biden defies the Court, the country will then be in the midst of a bona fide Constitutional Crisis.
Renee Parsons served on the ACLU’s Florida State Board of Directors and as president of the ACLU Treasure Coast Chapter. She has been an elected public official in Colorado, staff in the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender, an environmental lobbyist for Friends of the Earth and a staff member of the US House of Representatives in Washington DC.