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December 11, America’s Other Day of Infamy – When the US Supreme Court Abdicated Its Responsibilities

By Jim Hoft
Published December 11, 2022 at 7:33pm
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On December 11, 2020, the United States Supreme Court, in one horrific act, symbolically threw the Great Seal of the United States into the Potomac River and abdicated its solemn responsibilities to judge whether our country was following its own laws as clearly expressed in the United States Constitution. December 11, 2020, followed the 79th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor by just four days. And like President Roosevelt’s declaration regarding December 7, 1941, the date of December 11, 2020, will go down in American history as a day of infamy. As Jewish families across the world were lighting their menorahs for Hanukkah and celebrating their rescue from the tyranny of lawlessness, the Supreme Court announced that it was siding with lawlessness and that it would not be hearing the case of the State of Texas versus the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, State of Georgia, State of Michigan, and State of Wisconsin.

The circumstances that led to this case being filed are not complicated. They could easily be explained to an average 10- to 12-year-old.

1. The U.S. Constitution is the foundation of all other laws in the United States. Everything that happens in the U.S. is governed by the U.S. Constitution. It is the one law that reigns over all other U.S. laws. The Constitution clearly states the rights and authority of the people of the United States and the various branches of its government. In other words, it tells us who has the authority and power to decide what happens in our country at the individual (or personal), state, and national levels. 2. Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution tells us who makes the rules regarding national elections: “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof. . . .” In other words, the Constitution gives the authority over national elections to the legislatures in each of the states. 3. In the 2020 election, there were at least four states (Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin) in which the state executive branch (that is, the governor or other executive official) and/or the judicial branch (that is, the state supreme court) changed the rules of the election apart from the authority of the state legislature. These actions were a direct violation of the U.S. Constitution, which grants this authority only to the state legislatures. 4. The result of this constitutional violation was that the results of the 2020 national election were changed from what they would have been if U.S. constitutional law had been followed. 5. The State of Texas, along with 17 other states and 126 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, called out the four states that had violated the Constitution and challenged their election results as being unlawful. They filed their case with the U.S. Supreme Court. In other words, about 20% of the states and about 30% of the House of Representatives joined together with Texas and went to the Supreme Court to say that this was wrong, and that these four states broke federal law and changed the election. Advertisement - story continues below This Portable Heater is Slashing Electric Bills for Thousands of Americans This Portable Heater is Slashing Electric Bills for Thousands of Americans Product Hunter Those Who Live Longer Sleep Differently Than Ordinary People Those Who Live Longer Sleep Differently Than Ordinary People Youth Switch The Best Holiday and Christmas Gifts to Give This Year The Best Holiday and Christmas Gifts to Give This Year Product Hunter 6. The U.S. Constitution is very clear about the types of cases the Supreme Court should decide. It starts by describing the kinds of cases in which the Supreme Court has “original jurisdiction.” These are the cases that can only be brought to the Supreme Court to decide. In Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution, it says that “The Judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority; . . . —to Controversies between two or more States. . . .” The kind of case that Texas was bringing, along with several other states and over a hundred congressmen, was a case in which the Supreme Court had original jurisdiction. In other words, the Constitution tells us that this is the kind of case that the Supreme Court was designed to hear, and also that there is no other court in the entire world that has the authority to hear and decide this kind of case. 7. The Supreme Court refused to hear and try this case. The most likely reason is that the nation was severely divided and in turmoil, and the Court was too timid, too reluctant to risk the fallout and do its rightful duty. The U.S. Constitution was clearly violated—any average middle schooler could see and understand that. The results of the national election were affected by these violations. The Supreme Court was created and specifically designed 234 years ago to hear these kinds of cases. In other words, this case fell squarely in the middle of the Supreme Court’s job description. It is an integral part of the Supreme Court’s very purpose to hear and try this type of case.
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