Not In The Emanations and Penumbras of the Constitution

 Allen West asks the question Does The Progressive Socialist Left Read the Constitution? West is commenting here on two of the recent Supreme Court rulings in New York Rifle and Pistol Association v Bruen and Dobbs. These things should never have been allowed in the United States. In the first case, they overturned the Unconstitutional Sullivan Act that had stood since 1911 and prevented the average citizen in New York from carrying a gun for self defense. In the second case, the Court overturned Roe v. Wade that had Unconstitutionally made abortion legal nationwide.

In the case of New York Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, the Second Amendment, a part of the Bill of Rights, clearly states that "right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." That doesn't seem to leave a lot of wiggle room. But of course, the Left doesn't care, and so they continue to attempt to restrict our rights.

In essence, the left in America wants citizens to be subjects and victims to the criminals that they are releasing in droves back onto our streets. I find it quite perplexing that the Second Amendment is a specified, enumerated right of the people in our first 10 amendments to the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights. Yet, it appears that the leftists have never read the Constitution to garner that pretty basic concept.

Instead, the leftists advance their ideological agenda, disarming legal, law abiding, responsible gun owners. Remember what leftist Congressman from Rhode Island, David Cicilline said, "I don't want to hear about constitutional rights BS."

And of course, not to be outdone, a number of Republicans, John Cornyn of Texas among them, stabbed us in the back by negotiating and voting for a so-called "gun safety bill" that gives the Left everything they wanted while getting nothing in return. You can read about it at Townhall.com in an article by Kurt Schlichter entitled Is Senator John Cornyn On Drugs? We should have gotten nationwide concealed carry reciprocity for that one. We didn't get anything but "Red Flag Laws" which are themselves Unconstitutional. So, one supposes that Cornyn is a Leftist as well.

 Next, West takes a look at Roe v. Wade. Notice the Court accurately states the case that abortion is none of the Federal government's business. It rather belongs to the states.  The issue of abortion, the morality of it, and when and where it may be restricted are matters for the indivdual states to decide.  I personally think that abortion is the murder of an innocent child.  I suspect that Col. West does too, and so does Amy Coney Barrett.  But that is not the point.

That leads to the next case of leftist derangement, the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Let's go to Article III of the Constitution where we find the duties, roles, and responsibilities of the Judicial Branch of our government. The courts are supposed to interpret the law, not make law, nor create individual rights. Sadly, this is all lost on our rather misguided leftist friends. They believe that courts should make law rather than issue decisions. Roe is not and has never been the "law of the land” because it cannot be found anywhere in the Constitution and the legislative branch has never passed it and submitted it to the executive branch to become law.

As well, there is nothing in the Constitution that grants an individual right to privacy that permits murder, by dismemberment, of an unborn child. But facts seem to get in the way of the abject irrational emotionalism of Marxists. They do not believe in the three branches of government, but rather the three branches of rule: media, academia, and the courts. Therefore, through those mediums they can force their tyrannical will and agenda upon the people by way of centralized totalitarianism.

Unfortunately, the left wants to tell us all that we cannot defend ourselves nor the most vulnerable in America—the unborn. The decision goes back to the States, where it should have been. Matter of fact, Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution lists the 18 duties, roles, responsibilities, purview, and jurisdictions of the federal government. The 10th Amendment states that all powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved to the states, and to the people. Joe Biden has said, no amendment to the Constitution is absolute. I have to wonder if he has ever read the Constitution.

I frankly hope to see more rulings like these. I may not always agree, mind you, but if the Court is actually following the Constitution as written, including the current Amendments, that is the job of the Court. It should not be making laws. It really should not be giving deference to the political branches either. I would like to see other laws brought up, for example the Social Security act, Obamacare, National Firearms Act, and many others. It is high time that the Congress, the President and the Supreme Court acted as if the Constitution was actually the "law of the land" and stopped with the citing of the "good and plenty" clause, which is not in the Constitution; not even in the emanations and penumbras of that inspired document.