“Limited government” and “individual rights” are not phrases in the DEI/Woke vocabulary. From the Brownstone Institute at brownstone.org:
t her confirmation hearings, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson claimed she lacked the expertise to define “woman.” Just two years later, she did not hesitate to redefine the First Amendment and free speech as she advocated for the regime to bulldoze our Constitutional liberties provided they offer sufficiently sanctimonious justifications.
At Monday’s oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri, Jackson said her “biggest concern” was that the injunction, which prohibits the Biden Administration from colluding with Big Tech to censor Americans, may result in “the First Amendment hamstringing the Government.”
This, apparently, was of greater concern to Jackson than the revelations that the Intelligence Community held ongoing meetings with social media companies to coordinate censorship demands, that the White House explicitly demanded the censorship of journalists, and that the Department of Homeland Security was instrumental in manipulating citizens ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
But according to Jackson’s outlook, those facts may have actually been encouraging. She scolded counsel, “Some might say the Government actually has a duty to take steps to protect the citizens of this country.”
Jackson’s formulation inverts the structure of constitutional liberties. The Constitution does not limit the powers of citizens; it restrains our elected officials from tyrannical overreach. It is the law that “governs those who govern us,” as law professor Randy Barnett explains.
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The first ever roadblock putting the brakes on government.
The Constitution.
It is who will watch the watchers? (Rhet Torical)
It’s not for egalitarian equity hives or social credit scores or steaming fourth world turd banana republics with (s)elections as another daytime teevee drama or third rate Reichstag Fire Kabuki spiels.
Yes, it was thrown overboard long ago and somehow the Circus Circus magnificent cloaca keeps on rolling…until it doesn’t.
The fun machine will take a crap and go tits up eventually and that may be sooner rather than later.