Equal and Inalienable Rights ...

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One cannot make this up. No writer, even five years ago, could have predicted the terminal insanity happening to America as we speak with particular emphasis given to the Supreme Court, a rogue entity hell bent on attacking the constitution and our inalienable rights with a ferocity driven by religious fanaticism of the highest order. From separation of church and state to a woman'e right to choose, this court is violating its charter to defend the constitution at all costs. 

Let’s go back to the very basics of democracy, as it’s instituted in America. The executive branch carries out — executes — laws. The legislative branch — Congress — makes law, in accordance with the constitution. And the judicial branch — whose ultimate arbiter is the Supreme Court — decides whether legislation is constitutional.

But there are limits even to all that, and those limits are in the constitution itself. Constitutions contain inalienable rights. Even a Supreme Court doesn’t have the authority to take such rights away. And when and where those rights have been amended — in constitutional amendments — the Supreme Court has no authority to take those rights away, either.

But they are and we're allowing it to happen. The very existence of this country is as stake thanks to this court from hell, a notion the Dems seem to not understand given just how tepid and meek the so called leadership of the party has been. The repugs, however, are driven and organized and have hijacked the court and our rights in plain sight thanks to the Bushes, Trump and Mitch. Will this country survive? A good question is it not? 

AMENDMENT I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

AMENDMENT II

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.

AMENDMENT IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized

AMENDMENT XIV - Passed by Congress June 13, 1866. Ratified July 9, 1868.

Section 1.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.