Op-ed:

Shifting the Supreme Court Decidedly to the Right
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political

“He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court...”
- Article II Sec.2 of the U.S. Constitution

Last Monday night President Donald Trump nominated “originalist” Brett Michael Kavanaugh to fill the seat on the Supreme Court after Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement after having served 30 years on the bench.

Now having the chance to shift the High Court decidedly to the right for many generations to come no matter which political party holds the presidency in the intervening years, it's important to remember that it is the Senate alone who will approve or disapprove Trump's newest nominee. And while our side was able to get Neil Gorsuch approved thanks to some crossover Democrats, the question is can we do it again what with undeniable partisan politics seeming to have overtaken not only common sense but moral sense and decency as well.

And with moral sense and decency surely not being the calling the card of the left, it really came as no surprise when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's top deputy, Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin, said on 'Meet the Press' the weekend before President Trump even announced his nominee that Senate Democrats need to put “party” over their constitutes wishes when the vote for whomever is taken. In other words, Durban said Democrats should prioritize partisan opposition over their own re-election considerations. And this was immediately followed up with House Minority Leader Nancy Polosi sending out a fundraising letter saying she will “avenge” Barack Obama by opposing “Mr. Trump’s” then unannounced nominee “if it’s the last thing I do.”

                                                                                                                                                 Avenge Obama for what...he served two terms as president per the time limits set by the Constitution... he nominated and got his people appointed to the Supreme Court...so what is she really avenging but Hillary Clinton's loss thus proving herself to be but an aged snowflake still in need of a therapy puppy and bubbles...albeit this aged snowflake is an elected official of the most politically dangerous kind because her very words convey as truth what some of us have suspected all along...that Hillary Clinton was indeed to be Barack Hussein Obama's third term in office.

And with that third term surely would have come even more activist judges appointed to both the lower and the higher courts...hard to the left activist judges who would relish in legislating from the bench and who slowly but surely would be working hard to remove the 'as-written' Constitution...the very law of our land...by changing and amending it to such an extreme degree that it would have absolutely no relevancy at all in their eventually legislated socialist utopia.

No longer relevant is truly what the Democrats want the Constitution to be for the simple fact is that with the decades long liberal leaning court now shifting hard to the right the Democrats simply cannot digest let alone accept both the economic and the political shocks they on the left received with the election of Donald J. Trump as America's 45th president.

So with the wise old adage that “elections do have consequences” not being the adage the Democrats wanted to hear but instead being the reality they must now face, the age of liberalism on the Supreme Court has now come to a rightful end for it's liberalism that is America's greatest enemy from within...with said liberalism having been adjudicated from the bench.

And while the Supreme Count's job is solely to interpret the law as laid down in the Constitution, unfortunately time itself has shown that what a justice holds as his or her personal ideology and politics does more times than not sway said justice's vote. And in today's political climate of the left hating any and everything Donald Trump, the overt political ideology and now agenda of some justices has proven to be a very dangerous thing indeed.

Take for instance the Supreme Court's recent 5-to-4 vote to uphold President Trump's temporary travel ban. In their decision the court’s five conservative justices rightfully stated that Trump's power as president to secure our country’s borders “had been delegated by Congress over decades of immigration lawmaking”...which in fact it has always been...and that said delegation was not being undermined by what was then-candidate Trump’s “incendiary statements” concerning the dangers he claimed muslims posed to our country...which was the basis for the liberal justices ruling against the travel ban.

In fact, during oral arguments before the bench, Obama appointee Justice Elena Kagan personally tired to “swing” now retiring Justice Kennedy to vote against Trump's now for the third time amended travel ban by depicting the case as a “watershed moment” in the High Court’s jurisprudence about bias by laying out the possibilities of 'what if' an overtly anti-Semitic person became president and banned all immigration from Israel. Ignoring the fact that 'what ifs' are not now nor have they ever been constitutional law...and really why pick Jews who have contributed much to the fabric of our American society when she could have picked any number of minority groups...saw Kagan in her argument trying to play what in reality was the Obama anti-Israel, anti-Jew card...perhaps even allowing a glimpse into her own possible anti-Semetic and anti-Israel bias to show through.

Talk about an activist judge of the first degree.

Thankfully though this 'what if' scenario backfired on her leaving Chief Justice John Roberts to write for the majority that President Trump had “ample statutory authority to make national security judgments in the realm of immigration.”

So one can see by Justice Kagan's actions that having activist justices sitting on the Supreme Court... activist justices who have actually broken their promise of “fidelity to the law”...affects each and every American to some degree and is more dangerous than most people think for it reeks not of what should be “judicial restraint” but of a justice's partisan desire to both strike down either an existing law or applying his or her own policy preferences to, as per legal expert Hans A. von Spakovsky,* “uphold a statute or other government action that the Constitution clearly forbids.” And this includes their writing their own political leanings into their legal decisions instead of applying the Constitution impartially according to its original meaning based upon its “plain text.”

In fact, the great conservative Justice Antonin Scalia...a true "originalist"...stated time and again that “the text of the law speaks for itself”...something that all Supreme Court justices need to not only take to heart but to apply in all their decisions made.

“I do not ask about a nominee’s personal opinions...what matters is not a judge’s political views but whether they can set aside those views to do what the law and the constitution require.” So said President Trump when queried if he would ask his possible Supreme Court nominees their personal opinion on abortion.

And that brings us back to now Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and to what the Democrats consider the most critical issue of the day...their fear that the High Court with Kavanaugh sitting on the bench would surely overturn Roe v. Wade...the highly contentious 1973 law making a women's right to choose legal...making abortion legal...in these United States.

And with Democrats ignorant to the fact that abortion is but only one of many critical issues facing our nation today, I personally do not think Roe v. Wade would be overturned.... amended maybe but not overturned...for the simple fact is that it's a settled opinion with precedent already having been set. And while a lot of conservatives would like to see it overturned based upon their religious beliefs alone, only Justice Clarence Thomas has publicly stated that he would like to see Roe v. Wade overturned.

In fact, Judge Kavanaugh, a true "originalist" in the mold of Antonin Scalia, himself has stated that he would not vote to overturn Roe v. Wade based upon precedent already being set.

But now some key Democrats are saying that while Kavanaugh was serving as a D.C. Circuit Court judge he had to honor the precedent of the Supreme Court, but that as a sitting High Court justice he actually would not have to. However, during his 2006 confirmation hearing to said Circuit Court, Kavanough clearly stated that, “if confirmed to the D.C. Circuit, I would follow Roe v. Wade faithfully and fully,” and no words that he has spoken or written concerning Roe v. Wade since then has proved otherwise making the Democrats fear of his flipping nothing but a Justice Kagan previously stated 'what if' scenario with 'what ifs' being mere conjecture not fact.

And besides going against widespread public opinion about abortion is not something that any sitting justice is likely to do...and you can see where Americans stand by the numbers regarding abortion in my recent article On Abortion...because sitting justices truly are leery to overturn settled precedent and disrupting public expectations especially when doing so might imperil the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.

So what do Democrats fear most regarding a Kavanaugh appointment besides his possibly changing his stance on Roe v. Wade...his past record voting record, his possible future voting record, and especially his opinions written coming back to haunt them.

Remember, while on the appeals court Kavanaugh voted to strike down environmental regulations and said he would have overturned internet regulations issued while Barack Obama was president. Kavanaugh also dissented a ruling that let an undocumented immigrant teenager get an abortion while in federal custody. And Democrats now fear that Kavanaugh would vote to rescind the protection of pre-existing conditions under ObamaCare, which the Trump administration is no longer defending in a lawsuit launched by GOP attorneys general. And they especially fear Kavanaugh’s past opinions on whether a sitting president can be indicted in a criminal investigation and how that would impact Mueller’s ongoing Trump/Russia collusion what amounts to a 'witch hunt' investigation. Translation: Kavanaugh might vote to throw Mueller's entire investigation out if it ever reached the Supreme Court.

“If confirmed by the Senate, I will keep an open mind in every case,” were Judge Brett Kavanaugh's words last Monday night adding that he would follow the Constitutional rule of law “and precedent.”

So where do we stand right now as we anxiously await the nomination hearings...Democrats will surely try to put Kavanaugh, a supporter of broad presidential powers, on the spot regarding how he would vote on upcoming future cases like of course Roe v. Wade, the always hovering ObamaCare, and would he side with what the Democrats call corporate interests against the working people. And we also need to see how three Democratic Senators... Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota...all of whom voted to confirm Neil Gorsuch and who are all running in difficult reelection campaigns in red states...will vote.

And with Schumer’s goal being to keep his party in partisan lock-step line it surely will be fun to watch the Democrats squirm as the High Court shifts decidedly to the right for decades to come for Brett Kavanaugh will be confirmed when all is said and done leaving the Democrats to cry that their dream of a legislated from the bench socialist utopia is forever relegated to the trash heap where it always belonged.
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* Manager, Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow at the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies

Copyright @ 2018 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.

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For more political commentary please visit my RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS partner Craig Andresen's blog The National Patriot to read his latest article Kavanaugh...Because Elections Have Consequences.

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Op-ed: 

Losing the War Because of Numbers Uncounted
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

Fort Hood, Boston, San Bernardino, Orlando, Tel Aviv, Paris, Brussels, and now London...just to name but a few. And just what do these locals have in common...all have seen carnage, death, and destruction that is the stuff of our worst nightmares perpetrated by the followers of islam... by radical muslims...whether they be homegrown converts or by birth.

Not a Christian or Jew amongst these vile sorts and yet many in our Judeo-Christian nation still refuse to see the simple truth that some truly do not deserve to walk the Earth with civilized men. And some still insist on calling islam a religion and others go even further and call islam a religion of peace. But know that islam is not about peace as the words of their very own most (un)holy of books...the qur’an...says and proves just that.

And while it was a given that the liberal left would oppose President Trump's travel ban...a ban that would at least temporarily keep the enemy ‘over there’ instead of us laying out the welcome mat for the enemy to come here... sadly some even on the right oppose it as well for they hope that some way somehow we can peacefully live side-by-side together with those wishing us dead. But what these folks forget is the simple fact that the civilized man can never exist in peace alongside those whose vision of peace is subjugation, submission, and of America becoming part of the ever expanding caliphate.

So as we watch Europe being overrun by strong healthy young muslim men...with hardly a woman or child amongst them...as we watch Europe fall to the vanguard of the ultimate invasion that will have Europe becoming the 58th state of the caliphate...here is a little something you need to think about...the caliphate will be gotten both in Europe and here in America by sheer numbers alone with very few shots needing to be fired and without our streets here in America turning red with our American blood.

How so...muslims will simply outnumber us and will do so while we remain in a collective media-driven ‘sleep’ of sorts.

And unless we wake-up to this harsh reality our future will be a future decided by simple math. And the numbers involved are truly staggering...numbers seeming to start small but while we remain sleeping turn into numbers that increase more than two-fold with each generation. In fact, a recent Pew Research Center study...a study done over six years using data from 2,500 censuses and surveys... found that by the middle of this century there will be about 2.8 billion muslims worldwide up from 1.6 billion today. And with islam now being the world’s second-largest religion after Christianity, the numbers say that by 2070 muslims will outnumber Christians worldwide.

Now to further complicate matters, those numbers also show that by 2050, or maybe even a bit sooner, muslims will make up a full 10% of Europe’s total population, as the region's Christian population will fall from the current 553 million to 454 million. And by 2050 here in the U.S., Christians will decline from more than three-quarters of the current population to just two-thirds in 2050, with muslims outnumbering Jews to become our country’s largest non-Christian group with the number of muslims in America being projected to more than double from today's 2.6 million to 6.2 million...with some projecting that number to be as high as 8.1 million...thus making up 2.1% (or more) of our total population. And that number is based upon the number of muslims currently living here and does not at this point include the number of muslims expected to flood our country over the next couple of years...unless we can stop it that is.

Are you starting to wake-up yet?

And still you ask how can this possibly be...how can this happen...again it is simple math...one just has to add up the numbers. Add up that muslim men under the sharia are allowed to have four wives (and most muslims in this country do follow the sharia no matter the media claiming otherwise)...and many even have what is referred to as additional 'temporary' wives to 'use' at their discretion (prostitutes actually)...and with each wife usually having 4, 5, 6, or more children...simple math dictates that in just twenty years time there will be enough muslims of voting age here in the U.S...and in the U.K. Canada, and Australia as well...to be able to elect our leaders by their sheer numbers alone, especially if there is a candidate that is one of their own. And know that we having more children is not the answer no matter what some of our religious leaders say...for having more children that one can ill afford never is.

So what is the answer...it is simple really...we must stop 'them' from ever coming here.

Sadly, it has indeed come to just that and like I said it has happened while we have been in the above stated collective 'sleep' as to what our future holds...as well as we being ignorant of or just foolishly choosing to ignore past presidential actions...for President Donald Trump is not the first president to place a ban against a specific immigrant group nor will he be the last.

• On May 6, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed the 'Chinese Exclusion Act' which banned "skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining" from entering the U.S for 10 years, while also forcing Chinese who were already living here to obtain certificates in order to re-enter if they left the country as well as prohibiting them from obtaining citizenship. Expiring in 1892, it was extended for 10 more years in what was called the 'Geary Act' which now forced Chinese residents to register and obtain a certificate of residence, without which they could be deported.

• On March 3, 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the 'Anarchist Exclusion Act' banning anarchists and others deemed to be political extremists from entering the U.S. after the 1901 fatal shooting of President William McKinley by Leon Czolgosz, an American anarchist who was the son of Polish immigrants. This act which became known as the 'Immigration Act of 1903' codified previous immigration law, and in addition to anarchists, added three other classes of people then deemed ‘undesirables...those with epilepsy, beggars, and importers of prostitutes. This was also the first time individuals were banned for their political beliefs.

• In the days leading up to World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt told America that refugees posed a serious threat to our country's national security, and he did so by using the premise that Nazi spies could be hiding amongst them. Now limiting the number of German Jews who would be admitted to the U.S. to 26,000 annually, the reality became that less than 25% of that quota was actually filled due to Hitler’s extermination camps...something Roosevelt knew but did nothing about.

• On August 21, 1950, the 'Internal Security Act of 1950'...also known as the 'Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950' or the 'McCarran Act'...allowed for the deportation of any immigrant believed to be a member of the Communist Party, and members of communist organizations already here were required to register as well as not being allowed to become citizens. And while some sections of the act were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1993, some parts of the act still stand to this day.

• On April 7, 1980, following the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, President Jimmy Carter cut diplomatic relations with and imposed sanctions on Iran as well as banning Iranians from entering the country.

• In 1987, during President Ronald Reagan’s second term in office, Senator Jesse Helms...via his ‘Helms Amendment'...had those suffering from Aids or HIV added to the list of those not allowed entry into the U.S. as the U.S. Public Health Service listed both as "dangerous and contagious" diseases.

Hopefully you can now see that besides the all-important afore mentioned numbers, precedence has already been set for denying entry into our country those we deem to be hostile...and in this case those rightfully so deemed are muslims...muslims hostile to both our way of life and to the Constitution...the very rule of law we are governed by. And really, why should we take in those who show no interest in assimilating into the fabric of our American society...who show no interest in becoming true red, white, and blue Americans...but who instead want to bend us into submission to ways, ideals, and values so reprehensible to not only our Judeo-Christian faiths, thinking, and beliefs, but to what we know is simple right vs. wrong.

Simple right vs. wrong itself shows the followers of islam to be a threat to the security of our country for all one has to do is open a history book or read the qur’an to see that islam’s followers cannot nor do they want to live amongst us, that is unless they have the upper hand...the controlling hand...something Europe sees happening in real time as muslim invaders...in the guise of calling themselves refugees...rape, kill, and plunder their way through Europe...and we are next on their agenda.

And know that the sharia... the very law islam demands... the very law muslims deem to be higher than that of our Constitution...also shows that islam’s followers...followers who are roughly 1400 years behind the West’s becoming more just and civilized...followers who still condone jihad, torture, pedophilia, child marriages, treating women as mere chattel...just to name a few...proves they just do not now nor will they ever fit into our American society for how can they when they deem life and liberty below their desire for 72 virgins in death.

And as for most of those (obviously not all) who say they have either converted to Christianity or who are more 'moderate' in their views...remember the word taqiyya...the islamic juridical term whose meaning relates to when a muslim is both encouraged and allowed, under sharia law, to lie to help achieve the goal of islamic conquest.

But shouldn’t common sense itself dictate that since most, if not almost all, terrorist attacks over the past decade or so have been perpetrated by muslims. Remember back to my opening line...Fort Hood, Boston, San Bernardino, Orlando, Tel Aviv, Paris, Brussels, and now London...just a few of the attacks done by muslims...attacks committed in the name of islam and allah...attacks as a dry run leading up to what will surely be a major attack again happening here on American soil...an attack that will have 9/11 paling in comparison.

It is coming and probably soon for lone wolves are being awoken by those whose commands they follow...lone wolves as in terrorist themselves...lone wolves arriving on our shores who will breed like animals with the sole purpose of increasing muslim numbers.

And back it comes full-circle to numbers...ever increasing muslim numbers...numbers being the determining factor in who will be the final victor in the war of clashing civilizations. And sadly it seems that victor will not be us for how can we win that war when we openly allow the enemy into our country...when we allow the enemy to set foot on our shores...when we know that it is legal to ban that enemy as precedence and standing has already been set yet we do not. 

And so America will indeed lose the war to numbers...numbers we could have easily stopped but did not, and all because we caved to the god of political correctness known as the kumbaya liberal left. May God our Father forgive us for what we have done...or should I say for what we have not done.

Copyright © 2017 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor
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