U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)-– Long-term Progressive Justice Stephen Breyer announced he would be resigning at the end of the 2021/22 term. President Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace him. Jackson’s nomination was confirmed in the Senate.
Justice Breyer announced his retirement date as Thursday, 29 June 2022.
In the next Supreme Court term, Justice Jackson will be on the Supreme Court.
Little will change in terms of the policy on the Second Amendment.
This correspondent does not expect Justice Jackson to vary from Justice Breyer’s extreme hostility to the Second Amendment.
According to Justice Breyer, the Second Amendment was never meant to apply to individuals. If it applied to individuals, it did not have any force of law a state government was obligated to respect.
The Heller, McDonald, and now Bruen decisions reject that ahistorical analysis. The Breyer analysis can only be reached by an extremely selective view of the evidence.
The Bruen opinion by Justice Thomas lays out the evidence in a clear and convincing manner.
The Progressive philosophical basis has always been the Constitution is an impediment to the formation of government policy. It must be neutered or ways must be found to “work around” the “problem” of Constitutional limitations of government power. Such “need” is exactly how the nation came to have the Roe v. Wade decision.
The Constitution limited the Federal government’s power to make abortion legal across the nation. In our government of checks and balances, such power was left to the states.
The Second Amendment presents exactly the opposite. The government was forbidden from infringing on the right of the people to keep and bear arms. The Fourteenth Amendment made clear both the Federal and State governments were so forbidden.
In the Progressive philosophy, limitations on government power are evil. They prevent the government from doing all the things Progressive theorists think need to be enforced against the poor, ill-educated, stupid, and superstitious common people.
In the precise opposite of the founder’s thinking, common people cannot be trusted with any power in government. They will only cause problems.
There is every indication Justice Jackson will follow in the footsteps of Justice Breyer.
There is a difference. Justice Jackson was born on September 14, 1970. Justice Breyer was born on August 15, 1938. Justice Jackson is 32 years and a month younger than Justice Breyer. It is entirely possible Justice Jackson will serve on the court for another 35 years or more if the Republic survives for 35 more years.
In addition, Justice Breyer, born 32 years earlier, probably has less difficulty in defining what is a woman.
Justice Jackson claimed not to be able to do so because she is not a biologist.
This disconnect from simple reality bodes ill for decisions in which Justice Jackson has a say: all decisions forward from July of 2022 until Justice Jackson leaves the Supreme Court or until the Court is destroyed or dissolved.
By my count, the United States has endured 88 years of a Progressive Supreme Court, which worked very hard to change, spindle, and mutilate the Constitution to meet Progressive political goals.
For the first time in 88 years, the Supreme Court appears to have an originalist and textualist majority which takes the Constitution and the limits it places on government power seriously.
If this trend continues, Justice Jackson will not have much effect. She will remain in a dwindling minority on the court.
If the trend is reversed, current Progressives are far more worried about maintaining government power against the people, reducing the international power of the United States, and insuring that China becomes the next major power on the world stage, than they are of upholding the Constitution and the rule of law.
Which future will prevail is uncertain at this time.
I pray God will heal our land.
In addition to prayer, this correspondent urges everyone who is able, to organize and vote, while organization and voting still have chances to effect positive change and restore the Republic.
My oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, has never expired.
About Dean Weingarten:
Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973. He taught the Arizona concealed carry course for fifteen years until the goal of Constitutional Carry was attained. He has degrees in meteorology and mining engineering, and retired from the Department of Defense after a 30 year career in Army Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation.
she is that stupid and she went to the best public school in florida,almost think she resented the white people she went to school with
but then so too did jeff bezos so maybe communist teachers
Out goes the old Communist,in comes the new.
Once Judge Jackson said she couldn’t define what a woman was because she wasn’t a biologist should have been her reason for not becoming a justice of the court.
I would guess in her days as a judge that she sent women to a female prison for their crimes, she knew the difference then but now.
She is just another far reaching liberal who is afraid of the nasty conservatives.
Shame on Biden for nominating someone solely on the skin color.
Thank you for bringing China into the discussion. Everything ties together. Laws, lawlessness, our human rights, national division, our economy, our military, our presence and power on international stage, and of course deterrence of countries seeking to build their own power through whatever means. Laws against our rights lead to noncompliance increasing crime rates while strengthening calls for succession. Over time this leads to economic losses as crime, and expenditures on law enforcement and lawsuits increase. Talk of splitting the nation combines with economic weakness to reduce world view of US$, and more specifically US T-bills, as monetary safe-haven. To… Read more »
right on, nothing will essentially change, you are replacing a ideolog with perhaps a more leftist ideolog but one just the same.
roberts is the hinge point in scotus. his decisions are sometimes as a justice that uses the Constitution/rule of law to decide cases and sometimes it becomes irrelevant to him.
she is just another activist judge who will be a thorn in the side of freedom for many years.
Jackson is a Saboteur in a black robe.