The United States of Weird Trump MAGA, Republican, Democrat, NRA, Congress & Supreme Court Confederacy of Devil’s Dunces

 

    While Weird Mutant Donald Trump and his lemmings, and Republican and Democrat leaders fume about alleged Iranian hackers dumping to Politico the inner workings of Trump’s vetting of his running mate JD Vance’s past criticisms of Donald Trump, including likening Trump to Adolph Hitler, I’m reminded of Trump asking Russia in 2016 to find dirt on Hillary Clinton and Trump thanking Russia for doing that. I was glad Russia found dirt on Hillary and made it known, because Americans and the rest of the world needed to know the dirt on someone who might be president of the most powerful and certainly a quite corrupt nation on this world, and I just cannot do anything but clap for whomever dumped the JD Vance dirt to Politico, even as I imagine the leaker is a deep throat in Trump’s universe who does not like JD Vance 😎.

    My friend Bob, who does the tech work for my books at the free internet libraries, archive.com in America, and in overseas free internet libraries, and in the Torrent universe, emailed me three reader comments about my Amendment 14, Section 3 Law School Exam Question:
https://archive.org/details/amendment-14-section-3-law-school-exam

Section 3

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. 

 

Katia via DirectMessageIRC:  

I so wish that I had a professor in law school that cared enough to ask questions to stimulate us to think. 

 

Simeon via DirectMessageIRC re "Amendment 14 Exam":

Amendment 14 Section 3 law school question drives at the Key Point that could have saved democracy. That the US Supreme Court had such vision and integrity, our grim- nay that- dire predicament we face going into the 2024 Election would have been avoided.  

 

Elyssa via DirectMessageIRC: "Amendment 14 Law School Exam" : Fucking A well told. I am utterly mortified that our judicial branch has helped nullify checks and balances thus creating an executive branch which can do whatever it likes and no questions can be asked. Our supreme court has made the Godhead of the Presidential Office

    Bob shared a reader comment about my Law School Exam Question: Do Pregnant Women In America Have An Unalienable Right To Abortion Before Their Fetus Quickens?

https://archive.org/details/law-school-exam-question-do-pregnant-women-in-america-have-an-unalienable-right-_202404/page/n1/mode/2up 

 

Gaius via DirectMessageIRC: "UNALIENABLE RIGHT" Now this exam question is a beauty, but, not only that is so beautifully phrased as to how you take a "strict constructionist" and shove their strict constructionism up their asses sideways. Sending Much love.  

    Yesterday, former Birmingham, Alabama US Attorney Joyce Vance wrote at her  Civil Discourse Substack Newsletter regarding:

Amendment 2, United States Constitution

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

On August 20, 1986, there was a mass shooting in the Edmond, Oklahoma, Post Office, that left 14 people dead and six injured in less than 15 minutes. Postal worker Patrick Sherrill, 44, hunted down his coworkers before committing suicide.

Emergency efforts on August 20, 1986, Edmond, Oklahoma 

Today, these crimes occur with frightening regularity. In 1986, it was still shocking. This shooting and several others around the time led to the use of the phrase “going postal.” 

After last term at the Supreme Court, we have to worry about whether the next Patrick Sherrill will have a gun equipped with a bump stock, which permits a firearm to function like a fully automatic weapon, a machine gun, even though an “actual” machine gun is illegal. That case was Garland v. Cargill.

But it’s been the entire trajectory of the Supreme Court’s decision-making process regarding firearms since 2008 that has brought us here. The Second Amendment reads: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” Historically, courts evaluated restrictions on firearms in terms of how they impacted a well-regulated militia. 

Then, in 2008, Justice Scalia authored the majority opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller. The Court held the right to possess a firearm was an individual right, despite the Second Amendment speaking in terms of a well-ordered militia. Scalia was joined by Justices Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito. Justices Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer dissented. 

Fifteen years later, in June 2022, the Court decided New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. Heller involved the right to possess a firearm in the home. Bruen went beyond that, finding a constitutional right to carry a handgun outside the home for self-defense. Only restrictions that were supported by history and tradition were constitutional, the majority held. 

That’s ironic, because the history and tradition of gun laws in this country revolved around the plain language of the Second Amendment, which focused on the “well ordered militia” language and not an individual right to have a gun, especially not one equipped with a high capacity magazine or a bump stock. As many people have noted, the musket of the colonial era is nothing like the assault weapons that are frequently used in mass shootings. 

The Constitution isn’t supposed to be a suicide pact. Why would the Justices turn it into one?

Sloan Bashinsky

Sloan’s Newsletter

The Supreme Court gutted Amendment 2 when they ignored its premise, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State.” Where is the well regulated militia in America? The National Guards? 

What has happened with guns in America is insane, or if you are religious, the work of the Devil. What is a nation that claims to be under God, but its children don’t know when they go to school, if they will be killed by a shooter? Why don’t schools have armed guards at every entrance and exit? Why aren’t school boards doing that?

Even that is no guarantee. I have a friend [Bob] whose sister’s young children attended a Montessori school and one of their classmates from a MAGA family brought a loaded pistol to school in his daypack, and when he was found out and expelled, his parents raised hell. Although the school stood its ground, my friend’s sister moved to a city in another state, where schools don’t care what the NRA, the Supreme Court, or anyone else thinks about Amendment 2.

    While I continue to see in online and TV news reports that a large majority of the US Congress, and Donald Trump, MAGAS, Republicans and most Democrats still support Genocide Joe, Kamala, Israel and Hamas obliterating Gaza and maybe starting World War III.

sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com