Well, it’s official, we will have a new Supreme Court Justice who, by her own admission, will not recognize the basis upon which we built this country and its laws. In her own words, Judge Brown-Jackson declined to offer an opinion on whether or not we, as citizens, possess Natural Rights.
This failure to acknowledge such a fundamental position should have been disqualifying. I see it as the worst, and probably not final revelation in a series of serious questions surrounding her journey to the Supreme Court. One that began when Joe Biden stated that the next Justice was to be selected exclusively from a pool of black women, blatantly discriminating against candidates of other races.
Once her nomination was underway, it became clear that she has an issue upholding sentencing guidelines when the guilty party in question is a pedophile. We learned under Senator Hawley’s questioning that Judge Brown-Jackson routinely awarded lenient sentences of less than half the suggested term, often even less than was requested by the defense. I would be surprised if we did not continue to discover further issues with Judge Brown-Jackson that call into question the appropriateness of her nomination and confirmation.
From the get-go, all Senators must take their Oath of Office. Within that oath, within the first sentence, they must affirm ”that I will support and defend the Constitution.” I fail to see how a judge who does not acknowledge the rights at the foundation of our Constitution, who openly sides with pedophiles, does not fall under that umbrella.
This calls into question all the Senators who voted “yes.” Not just the 50 votes offered by the democratic side of the aisle but also the 6 republican Senators who failed to vote “no.” It is clear that our Senate has abdicated its responsibility to not just the States they represent but to the People that elect them. Put not your faith in Princes. Or, you could also lean on the notion that power corrupts.
We often want to believe that we can “just elect the right people” to recover all that we have lost. We have often tried to lean on the belief that we only “need enough people to elect the right court.” Those two hopes ring hollow.
So what remains to us? Article V of the Constitution. Written by men much wiser than us, our Founders saw ahead to a day where we would fail ourselves and would need a way back. We must look for officials to support who will step forward and enact the Convention of States across the country. We cannot rely on one President, nine Justices, on the 100 Members of the Senate, or the 435 in the House of Representatives.
But there are thousands of us who would gladly take the power appropriated by these small groups and return it to the people. Get to know your State Representatives. Talk to them. Discern if they support the Convention of States. Or seek their successors.
