{"id":45235,"date":"2018-10-11T01:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T05:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=45235"},"modified":"2018-10-09T18:04:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T22:04:55","slug":"qotd-the-radical-right-wing-us-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/10\/11\/qotd-the-radical-right-wing-us-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The radical, right wing US Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We don&#8217;t have a &#8220;radical right-wing Supreme Court,\u201d despite lots of mewing on the left to the contrary. Here are some things that would be at the top of the list for a radical right-wing Court: (1) ban abortion nationwide as a violation of the right to life protected by the due process clause; (2) rule that publicly-provided (but not funded) education is unconstitutional because it inherently involves viewpoint discrimination by the government, or at least require vouchers for those who object to the public school curriculum; (3) overrule an 1898 precedent and completely abolish birthright citizenship; (4) Use the First Amendment as a sword to require \u201cfairness\u201d in the left-dominated media. Not only is the Supreme Court not about to do any of things, I don\u2019t think any of these things would even get one vote on the current Court. Moreover, merely bringing the scope of Congress\u2019s constitutional back to where it was, say, in 1935, which was already much broader than the original meaning of the Commerce power, probably wouldn\u2019t get more than one or two votes. What you are looking at right now is a conservative Court that will only affect society on the margins, not a \u201cradical right-wing\u201d Court.<\/p>\n<p>David Bernstein, <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/309854\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;WE DON\u2019T HAVE A &#8216;RADICAL RIGHT-WING SUPREME COURT'&#8221;, <em>Instapundit<\/em><\/a>, 2018-10-09.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t have a &#8220;radical right-wing Supreme Court,\u201d despite lots of mewing on the left to the contrary. Here are some things that would be at the top of the list for a radical right-wing Court: (1) ban abortion nationwide as a violation of the right to life protected by the due process clause; (2) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,53,41,13],"tags":[601,431,715,217,752],"class_list":["post-45235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-abortion","tag-conservatism","tag-constitution","tag-rights","tag-supremecourt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bLB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45236,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45235\/revisions\/45236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}