I wrote about the 14th Amendment. A lot of other people have also written about the 14^th Amendment. I think that is it easy to figure out why the 14^th amendment has been a popular subject.   I think, eventually,  it is going to come before the Supreme Court. My problem is that I don’t trust the Supreme Court and I think that there are a lot of people that think just like me. I look at some of the decisions they have made in the last 20 years and I can’t believe that they are looking at the same document that I am looking at.

The first one was their decision on the 2^nd Amendment. This court has created a new phrase that was not there when I was growing up. That phrase is “Constitutional Carry”. I look at the 2^nd Amendment and I don’t see it saying “Constitutional Carry” in it. Here is the 2^nd Amendment: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”. Does this sound like what is happening on our streets today? I see no local Militia though I do see a lot of things that did not exist when the Constitution was written. There was no local Police forces, there were no County Sheriffs or Deputies. Many European countries had use their military to suppress their own citizens much like the British used their military to suppress the colonist before the Revolution. At the writing of the Constitution there was still that fear that a Federal Army could be used to suppress the will of any State. In fact some States had two fears. One was that the Federal Government would come in and take away all slaves and the other was in the case of a slave rebellion the Federal Government would not come to their aid. They wanted a militia to control the slaves. Some of the first militias were actually called slave patrols.

In 1876 the Supreme Court ruled that “The right to bear arms is not granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence. The Second Amendment means no more than that it shall not be infringed by Congress and no other effect than to restrict the powers of the National Government” In 1897, the Supreme Court in Robertson v. Baldwin that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms is not infringed by laws prohibit the carry of concealed weapons. In Miller v Texas, Franklin Miller was convicted for shooting a policeman with an illegally carried handgun in violation of Texas law. The Supreme Court ruled that the 2^nd Amendment did not apply to state laws such as the Texas law. There are others but I will say,  there have been restrictions on firearms since the creation of this country. Before and after the Civil War there were restriction in some States about Free Blacks and what type of gun they could possess. There were cities where you couldn’t wear your gun within city limits. Today, because our present Supreme Court. they have thrown out all the ruling of the past and have helped create a Wild West situation in much of the country. I no longer trust that the Supreme Court will look after the well being of the Constitution or the Country. I have written multiple articles about the 2^nd amendment that you can review like this one I Could Be Wrong. (cbwrong.blogspot.com). I believe that today’s violence and today gun deaths fall right at the feet of Chief Judge Roberts’s Supreme Court.

If we can’t trust them with the 2^nd Amendment how can we trust them with the proper interpretation of the 14^th Amendment. I think that they have already shown that they can’t be trusted with the 14^th Amendment because of what they did with Roe v Wade. Originally the Supreme Court ruled that a person’s Constitutional right to privacy was protected by Section One of the 14^th Amendments. That went along with the thinking of many conservatives at the time. I remember an interview of Senator Barry Goldwater when he was asked about abortion and he stated that it was none of the government’s business. Even though I agree abortion is a terrible thing I also think that it is none of my business what a woman does to her own body and, she has the liberty and rights to make those decisions privately with her and her doctor. The right to privacy is an essential liberty that should have been upheld by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court overturned that right in June of 2022. That was after all three of Trump’s Supreme Court appointees had stated that Roe v Wade was now the law of the land during their confirmation hearings. One can only conclude that all three of those justices lied to Congress and the American people to get confirmed. It seems like it was an orchestrated effort to do away with Roe V Wade. What other ruling could they overturn?  We have had ruling on things like Civil Rights and who actually is a natural born citizen which are all based on the 14^th Amendment.

The Supreme Court, in the way that they have lied to the American people, has lost a lot of the trust of the American people. When you then throw in all the money and gifts that have been given to many of our Judges which they did not report just shows a level of corruption that may actually be worse than in any other branch.  The fact that they didn’t feel the need to report them is appalling. The fact that they didn’t feel the need to report them is appalling. There are conflicts of interests like with Ginni Thomas trying to overturn the election and Justice Thomas not recusing  himself. They should be held to the same ethical standards as every other judge in America. The fact that they don’t  shows how they feel  they are above the system and can do what they want. Thomas and his wife Ginni pose a serious threat to the ethics of the court with their personal relationship with Trump.  They will probably have another case going their way and this one will involve Section 3 of the 14^th Amendment. I have read a paper written for the Social Science Research Network written by William Baude and Michael Stokes, the paper is called “Sweep and Force of Section Three”. I agree with the paper that it should be a slam dunk. In fact, I think that the Supreme Court should only listen to any case to just uphold the fact the Trump is ineligible . Do I trust this Court to do the right thing? No I don’t. I have written 2 articles in the last 3 weeks on section 3 of the 14^th Amendment and after reading and researching it, I have come to the conclusion that Trump is not eligible to run for office.