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Op-Ed by Attorney General Charity Clark
Our choice for President of the United States this November will have far-reaching impacts on the U.S. Supreme Court and our entire judicial system. Voters should be asking themselves: what kind of country do you want to live in? What kind of future do you want to leave for the next generation? Because the judicial choices made by President Trump during his first term present a clear – and concerning – picture of what another four years would mean for the bench and for our country.
In his single term, President Trump appointed a staggering 226 federal judges, all of whom are entitled to serve as federal judges for life. Fifty-four of his appointments were made to the federal appeals courts, which sit just below the U.S. Supreme Court (for comparison, President Obama appointed about the same – fifty-five appeals court judges – in his two terms). Those courts often have the final say in interpreting our laws, including the Constitution. Critically, President Trump also appointed three Justices to the U.S. Supreme Court in his single term. The appointments of those Justices – Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett – have formed a conservative supermajority that has reshaped much of the American legal landscape. With lifetime appointments, Justices Gorsuch (56 years old), Kavanaugh (59 years old) and Barrett (52 years old) could continue to serve for literally decades.
The profound impacts of a president’s judicial appointments can be seen in, for example, President Trump’s handiwork in ensuring Americans were stripped of their right to abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Dobbs overturned nearly 50 years of legal precedent, dismantled women’s rights to make our own healthcare decisions, and clouded and confused the future of reproductive liberty for millions of Americans.
The Dobbs decision is perhaps the most well-known folly of Trump’s Supreme Court, but, unfortunately, there are many others. In this past U.S. Supreme Court term alone, the conservative majority: ruled that presidents are immune from criminal prosecution in most situations (Trump v. United States); struck down a ban on rifles with “bump stocks,” which in 2017 were used by a shooter in Las Vegas to kill over 60 people and injure over 850 more (Garland v. Cargill); allowed racial gerrymandering so long as it also supports partisan political goals (Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP); and made it harder for the EPA and many other federal agencies to protect consumers, investors, and the environment by throwing out a decades-old precedent under which the federal courts deferred to the technical expertise of those agencies (Loper-Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo).
The impacts of Trump’s appointments are being felt in the lower federal courts as well. Just take a look at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, where six Trump appointees have pushed an already conservative court to the extreme. In a couple of instances, the Fifth Circuit’s rulings were too conservative even for our ultra conservative U.S. Supreme Court. For example, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Fifth Circuit decisions allowing dangerous domestic abusers to continue possessing firearms (United States v. Rahimi) and concluding that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was not constitutional (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America). In cases dealing with misinformation on social media (Missouri v. Biden) and our right to reproductive liberty (Texas v. Becerra and FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine), the U.S. Supreme Court blocked Fifth Circuit decisions on technical grounds but those issues likely will return with a second Trump administration.
Now is the time to shape our future in a way that reflects our values. It’s time to decide whether stripping Americans of their reproductive freedom, denying states the right to enact gun safety measures, ignoring the expertise of government agencies, and allowing misinformation to spread is the future we want for ourselves and for our children – and vote accordingly.
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For once a Commiecrat is right but for all the wrong reasons. Trump will nominate Supreme Court justices that will follow the Constitution and not legislate from the bench.
WHEN THE FOUNDERS WROTE THE CONSTITUTION MAKING THE UNITED STATES A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC, NOT A DEMOCRACY, THEY PUT INTO IT TWENTY-EIGHT OF THE GREATEST PRINCIPALS FOUND AROUND THE WORLD. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME IN WORLD HISTORY THAT THE PEOPLE WERE NOT GOVERNED BY FORCE. THE FIRST TIME THAT THE RULING OF A COUNTRY LIED SOLELY WITH THE PEOPLE. TOMORROW WHEN YOU GO TO VOTE ASK YOURSELF, DO THE PEOPLE I AM VOTING FOR STAND FOR THE PRINCIPALS OF THE CONSTITUTION?
1. The only reliable basis for sound government and just human relations is
Natural Law
2. A free people cannot survive under a republican constitution unless they remain virtuous and morally strong.
3. The most promising method of securing a virtuous and morally stable people is to elect virtuous leaders.
4. Without religion the government of a free people cannot be maintained.
5. All things were created by God, therefore upon Him all mankind is equally dependent, and to Him are equally responsible.
6. All men are created equal.
7. The proper role of government is to protect equal rights, not provide equal things.
8. Men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.
9. To protect man’s rights, God has revealed certain principles of divine law.
10. The God-given right to govern is vested in the sovereign authority of the whole people.
11. The majority of the people my alter or abolish a government which has become tyrannical.
12. The United States shall be a republic.
13. A constitution should be constructed to permanently protect the people from the human frailties of their rulers.
14. Life and liberty are secure so long as the right to property is secure.
15. The highest level of prosperity occurs when there is a free-market economy and a minimum of government regulations.
16. The government should be separated into three branches, legislative, executive & judicial.
17. A system of checks and balances should be adopted to prevent the abuse of power.
18. The unalienable rights of the people are most likely to be preserved if the principals of government are set forth in a written constitution.
19. Only limited and carefully defined powers should be delegated to the government, all others being retained in the people.
20. Efficiency and dispatch require government to operate according to the will of the majority, but constitutional provisions must be made to protect the rights of the minority.
21. Strong local self-government is the keystone to preserving human freedom.
22. A free people should be governed by law and not by the whims of men.
23. A free society cannot survive as a republic without a broad program of general education.
24. A free people cannot survive unless the stay strong.
25. Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.
26. The core unit which determines the strength of any society is the family; therefore, the government should foster and protect its integrity.
27. The burden of debt is as destructive to freedom as subjugation by conquest
28. The United States has a manifest destiny to be an example and a blessing to the entire human race.
Antonin Scalia: “The Constitution is not a living organism, it’s a legal document, and it says what it says, and it doesn’t say what it doesn’t say”.
Exactly. Trump appointed judges to restore the Constitution’s balance of powers.
Let’s get rid of her. She would rather have far left radicals appoint our justices- no cash bail and empty the prisons???
Vermont is run by monkey cave critters. Some one will have to explain to them that there another universe beyond Vermont.
correction there is another
we are seeing repeatedly that the dems want what they want, not what is right and the best for the people. Charity is so wrong and yet the minions will follow. we saw one of the results from these far left people when Burlington had to cancel a festival because people are afraid to go there at night. I hope people wake up but am in no way optimistic of it happening no matter how bad things get.
“President Trump appointed a staggering 226 federal judges”. I believe that a lot of those choices were made because the Obama Administration left them open, thus allowing President Trump to fill them. Who’s fault was that ?? The rest of this diatribe is just a politician who came out on the wrong side of an election crying because their billionaire backer’s (Bloomberg, Soros etc.) billions did not (excuse the pun) “trump” their opposition’s billions of dollars. Cry me a river !
Little miss Snow White is upset more idiot liberal judges aren’t assigned to the bench. SW doesn’t seem to care about the Socialist Liberals that went after Trump in NYC, DC, NJ, GA, that suits her nicely. Poor Miss SW, making her beer salty with all the tears dropping into it. If the political pendulum swings back to reality as our Fathers provided, SW better take a long walk in the woods to clear her head. Brainwashed liberal, can’t have it her way all the time.
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Thomas Jefferson
What I just read was written by a person who sees the constitution as a roadblock to her vision of a country ruled by overlords. A country run by liberal justices who would take the freedoms we have now away. A country that would expand government power when the best government is that closest to the people. Yes, remember, “We the People” who the constitution was written for? It was written for our protection (the people) from an almighty government. This lady has perverted the true meaning of the constitution even though she has taken an oath under the pains of perjury to protect it!
On or before November 5th please VOTE Ture Nelson for our next Republican Vermont Attorney General.
Get-R-Done Patriots Get-R-Done 🇺🇸
For the Googness and Sake of our State and Country !!
Please VOTE Republicans up and down the Ballots folks!!
Like allways that Vermonter!!
Emboldened Jezebel spirits – notice the women holding high positions, not only in Vermont, but Michigan, New York, Arizona…they all seem to be under some sort of spell, casting spells, doing the bidding for some entity, a not-so-secret anymore society. They don’t represent the law or the People – they represent wicked principalities in high places.
Here is a video of Robert Kennedy Jr. I suggest one and all review it. I also encourage believers to pray for this man’s protection.
https://rumble.com/v5g3385-the-michelle-moore-show-feature-rfk-jr.-on-government-poisoning-and-fauci.html
you think charity reads her report card? for shame gurl!
So Ms Clark is basically saying, “The system doesn’t work the way I want it, so I’m going to hold my breath until I turn blue and die”.
Well, you go ahead and do that, Ms Clark. And while you’re waiting, try to comprehend that President Trump did nothing to BAN abortion. The SUPREME COURT sent the issue back to the states to decide for themselves, which is as it should be. Oh, and by the way, if you want to advocate killing unborn children, much to my chagrin it’s still legal in Vermont, so what do you care if Mississippi bans it? So stay in your lane. That would be a good start.
Bump stocks? Las Vegas? Correct me if I’m wrong, but we still have no idea what really happened in Las Vegas. Many reports indicated multiple shooters. What’s being covered up there? To me it looks like a classic CIA operation meant to swing opinion in a particular (left) way. But seven years down the road, we still know nothing. Nothing!
Have you ever read the Constitution, Ms Clark? Do you know why Supreme Court justices are appointed for life? I’ll answer that one for you – so they’re not beholden to whatever political party happens to be in office – so that they can interpret the Constitution as written. And you seem to forget, all of these judges have gone through Senate approval, where your party is in the majority.
You also seem to forget that the other party had to tolerate a woman I’m sure you consider an idol, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who was a member of the Supreme Court for 27 years. I highly doubt that all three of Judges Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Barrett will serve that long.
But hey, I believe people can change, so when you grow up, when you can make an argument with logic rather than personal prejudices, I’m more than willing to offer you a seat at the adult table.
Let’s thank AG Clark for a very clear window into the world of the left. Are you convinced? …are you a convert to such delusional thinking? …or is this a distorted world view you’ll vote against next time?
She scares me more than Nancy Pelosi. Amazing how some people think there is only one solution, theirs.