Texas Lt. Gov.: Abortion Ruling Devastating Blow

The Supreme Court struck down Texas’ widely replicated regulation of abortion clinics on Monday. Lieutenant Governor of Texas Dan Patrick called the ruling a “a devastating blow to women’s safety and health.”

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Thomas Dowling
8 years ago

Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick is a ignorant traitor to the Sovereign State of Texas. Our SCOTUS has no constitutional power in such matters.

Patrick allows another devastating blow to Our Constitution.

It makes no sense that Texas would even care about the SCOTUS opinion on this matter. (Amendment X, Our Constitution)

Texas and all the other States should simply tell the feds how things work.

The States must stand up and act like States. Our States are always superior to the federal government. Our States created Our federal government. The States did not delegate any power to Our federal government concerning women’s safety and health. There is no safety and health clause in Our Constitution!

States must quit pandering to the inferior federal government that they created. Enough is Enough! States must shrink and put Our federal government back in its tiny box as created. (Article. I., Section. 8., of Our Constitution)

Furthermore: “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”, INCLUDES BABIES!

LT
LT
8 years ago
Reply to  Thomas Dowling

Amen, sir Thomas Dowling. Amendments IX and X clearly reserve *everything* not explicitly delegated to the Federal Authority to the States, or to the People. (there is, after all, no Federal Authority which is _not_ delegated by and from the hand of the States)
The Federal Government has no power or authority to compel the States or the People directly, whatsoever. It only through our Congress, that the Assembly of States can, *within the ‘box’ of Constitutional constraints*, compel a fellow state to uphold what it has Covenanted with said other states. — The covenant, our Constitution, is clear, concise, and closed. It is not subject to “interpretation”. Period.

The legitimate purposes of the United States Supreme Court, as delegated in our Constitution, are as follows:
The Judicial authority of the Supreme Court shall extend --
1) 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;
2) to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers, and Consuls;
3) to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;
4) to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;
5) to give Due Process to complaints of one State against another State, Pro-Forma, (as States also have lawful recourse to the Senate to settle differences, both by legislation, and/or proclamation);
6) to make available Due Process to a Person/People of one State, who seek to initiate an action against another State (or a portion of the People thereof), where competent jurisdiction cannot be established in either State’s courts, or
7) between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.

The Federal Government itself, has NO STANDING to initiate a case against any State, nor any Citizen of any State, outside the Authority of the Constitution, nor the Laws of the Unites States as passed by Congress, in accordance with said Constitution.
Period. And if it did, such authority would rest with the Executive, not the Judicial branch, because it is the Presidents duty to ensure that the laws of the United States are faithfully executed.

Neither does the SCOTUS have legitimate authority, when the people of a State seek action against said State of which they are a Citizen (or resident), to any end or purpose whatsoever, because the State itself retains Competent Jurisdiction in such cases.

And further, where the Constitution does not explicitly delegate a power to the Congress or the Executive branch of the Federal Government, neither does the Supreme Court of the Unites States have Jurisdiction over said matter, except within the explicit conditions of direct delegation to the Judiciary, as laid out above.

Nowhere in the above enumerated powers of the Supreme Court, do I see anything even remotely congruent with “deciding the Constitutionality of any Law” made by the Congress of the Unites States, or of any State therein.

Or, in other words, “Where the Constitution doesn’t delegate, the Supreme Court cannot Adjudicate.”

This ‘supremacy clause’ and ‘commerce clause’ BS is exactly that -- and activist judiciary, which was not what our founders intended.