Wells: What is left to celebrate on July 4

Letter to the editor

This week, Monday, the Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 that a sitting President is Above the Law – a Dictator accountable to no one. They interrupt our celebration of Independence Day to assert that The American Revolution was pointless, that the Constitution produced and ratified thereafter; that was Amended in the Bill of Rights, in the blood of Civil War, in protests for women’s suffrage and civil rights. They interrupt to tell us, after 237 years, that they just noticed that the Constitution makes the President a Dictator.

The liberal media has responded by loudly repeating fruitless demands for enforceable ethics, recusal, term limits, and Court packing – none of which touch upon the earth shattering criminality of that ruling. AOC in pledging to file Articles of Impeachment is the only member of Congress asserting that criminality. That Impeachment is of course doomed as Trump has used the interregnum to purge the Congress of Republicans that fail to swear fealty to him.

A number of people have noted that the timing of Trump v United States means that Biden now has said dictatorial powers. The Court appparently sees no danger in this – even though Justice Sotomayor noted in Dissent that the President could send Seal Team 6 in to assassinate, for instance, Supreme Court Justices. Happily Biden would never do anything like that. (I’d be happier still if he had like concern for infants, and people generally, in Gaza, Lebenon, Yemen…)

The Constitution of course is not at fault. Support for this dictator malarkey is found only in the facially Unconstitutional Precedents of the Supreme Court. The doctrine of ‘stare decisis’, the honoring Precedents, creates Precedent threads; each a metastasizing cancer.

Three examples:

1) By forgery and lies corporations came to be ‘people’ and the word ‘person’ in 14A used to create corporate rights. Last week the insane 6 overturned Chevron Deference giving judges oversight of environmental regulations, public health measures, worker and consumer protections. Billions of dollars of absolutely legal bribery can be expected.

2) By 1976 Valeo, 1978 Belotti, 2010 Citizens United, 2016 McDonnell – impeachable bribery became ‘political speech’. Last week the insane 6 ruled, Snyder v US, that Public Officials can take bribes for putting the briber’s interest before the public interest. The only rule in Bribery: You don’t talk about Bribery.

3) Qualified Immunity of police et al was introduced in 1967. And grew this week into Presidential Dictatorship.

How is it that we failed to reverse these atrocities? The Declaration of Independence speaks eloquently to this: “experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government”

President Biden could by “official acts” throw off such Government. It is his duty. The Insurrection Act, U.S. Code Title 10, Section 253, Part 2 authorizes the president to use the military against any two (or more) people conspiring to break federal law. Judges overwriting the Constitution by foul Precedents are in Insurrection and in violation of their sworn oath to uphold the Constitution. They are literally breaking the law. Said Precedents must be eliminated and Judicial Review hereafter limited to compliance with the amended Constitution. Note in this regard that in the 1827 case Martin v. Mott, the Court ruled that “the authority to decide whether [an exigency requiring the militia to be called out] has arisen belongs exclusively to the President, and . . . his decision is conclusive upon all other persons.”

Note further that the elimination of actual bribery begs the question of how to fund elections. The most democratic funding, giving each voter equal input, would be that each voter be given a $200 debit card that can be used only to fund qualified Federal candidates; with candidates prohibited from taking aught else (self-funding not allowed).

The danger of a Trump dictatorship is eliminated. Both Parties will seek to win the support of actual people – and each will be better for it.

Tom Wells, Gainesville
Tom Wells is the Democratic candidate for Congressional District 3

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