"John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it"
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On the Trail of Tears
And with that, Andrew Jackson told the Supreme Court to piss off, and began the removal of Cherokee Indians to Oklahoma. Not to be outdone by Old Hickory, Biden has announced that he’ll extend the CDC’s rent/mortgage moratorium that was ruled illegal by the Supreme Court last June.
“Whether that option will pass constitutional measure with this administration, I can’t tell you. I don’t know,” Biden said. “There are a few scholars who say it will, and others who say it’s not likely to. But, at a minimum, by the time it gets litigated it will probably give some additional time while we’re getting that $45 billion out to people who are in fact behind in the rent and don’t have the money.”
[Red State] “In other words, he knows it’s unconstitutional and it wouldn’t be upheld but he knows that legal action against this extension will take time, so he’s going to try to do it anyway and then blame others and the courts when he’s sued and he loses. Can we talk about how wrong this is? He doesn’t care that it’s illegal. He knows it’s contrary to what the Supreme Court has already indicated yet he’s flying in their face anyway, something that just defies belief.”
As a reminder, even Nixon obeyed the Supreme Court’s ruling that he must turn over the Watergate tapes, at the cost of his job. But beginning with Obama’s executive orders creating DACA residents, continuing through Trump’s four years in office while the country’s security forces worked to overthrow him, to the COVID lockdown, we’ve been set on a dangerous path. I’d remind you to keep your powder dry, but that would probably bring the FBI to my door.
