6-27-25

Today is a landmark day for the rule of law….a moment in time when rulings come

down from the high bench at the Supreme Court of the United States that impact

how and why we do things…..much of the Trump agenda is currently vested in the

various federal courts decision making processes….not the least of which are

decisions issued today in Washington DC…..think about it….in this single day we

may have the bulk of the President’s agenda passed in the Big Beautiful Bill as the

Senate pursues the reconciliation package….but at the same time the Supreme

Court just issued a ruling in a case styled as Trump v. CASA….this one is big….for a

variety of reasons…..

Trump v. CASA began as a challenge to President Donald Trump’s executive order

ending birthright citizenship – the guarantee of citizenship to virtually everyone

born in the United States – but it came to the justices of the Supreme Court as an

emergency appeal in which the Trump administration is asking the justices to

weigh in on a different question: the power of federal district courts to issue

“nationwide” or “universal” injunctions, which prohibit the federal government

from implementing the birthright citizenship order anywhere in the country…..it

was just heard last month…..the decision has unlocked the ability of the Trump

administration to operate without liberal activists forum shopping their favorite

Judge to get a nationwide block on something……In a 6-3 decision the Supreme

Court reigned in activist judges who sit in solo courtrooms enjoining nationwide

activities! This is huge…… the Supreme Court is telling the lower courts to stay in

their lanes…..

I’ve got to tell you…..I love the law….I respect the law……and I also know that

there is supposed to be one version of the law that is blindfolded so that justice

may be served correctly, evenly, and expeditiously…….but the abuses of the

amazing system of justice that our founding fathers created that we are watching

now is making a mockery of the law……an absolute mockery…..it is apparent that

the rule of law is not what is being sought

With that said, I cannot help but return to a personal story that I’ve told

before……recently I was asked for my thoughts on what a US Attorney can do for

their state……and the first thing I responded with was an experience I had when

the war in Afghanistan kicked off……. my team was inserted and collocated with a

Special Forces team in a remote corner of the northern Provinces……I lived among

the Afghan people and aside from combat operations we were tasked with

winning hearts and minds……I oversaw aid dollars to rebuild agriculture,

education, infrastructure, and more……in the course of doing this I would actually

enter into contracts with Afghan contractors to get things done…..and then I got

the word in early 2002 that one of the local warlords, an old school strong man

thug named General Mirallam, had put a stop to some of our efforts and taken

control of the projects……basically ol’ Mirallam was flexing for the new guys to

see what we would do…..so I broke with normal security protocols and made

known that I was coming to his headquarters……I rolled in the gate of Mirallam’s

headquarters and it was like something out of a bad movie……I’ve seen multiple

movie scenes where the 3 rd world dictator has the arms dealer come to see him

and he sits there fat on his stool with all of his heavily armed sycophants around

him……yeah, it felt just like that…..I went in to see Mirallam and we greeted each

other and we had tea for a minute and then we got down to business…….I asked,

and he confirmed, that he had shut down the work on a project……I asked why

and he said pompously that it is needed, it is what must be done to ensure that all

is well……I told him that it wasn’t needed and that he was interfering in a contract

with the United States……you could feel the tension in the room…..people didn’t

walk into Mirallam’s house and tell him “no”…….But I did……I told him it was

unacceptable and that I would be communicating back to “my headquarters” that

the US efforts to help the Afghan people were being hindered by one man…….(in

truth I don’t know that “my headquarters” would have done anything) this was a

crap shoot…..I was playing my best cards and really didn’t know how it was going

to turn out…..I even questioned a couple of times if I would be allowed to leave

that room……and then all of a sudden the General smiled and threw his hands up

in the air and said “OK!”……but then he asked a question, and this is why I tell this

story now…… he said “in Afghanistan, it is I who handles matters that involve

contracts. Who does this in America?”…..well, I knew the answer to that question

and I said it immediately, “the lawyers!”……Mirallam looked at me like he had just

heard the best joke ever and I will never forget that he turned around and

repeated my answer in Dari to his entourage who all broke out laughing like it was

the funniest story they had ever heard!......I knew then that years of degradation

and poor governance had reduced the rule of law in that country to a laughing

matter…….where there is no respect for the law you get anarchy….where the

courts cannot be trusted to operate blindly you have no justice…..and where the

courts are used as a tool to punish people for an agenda you watch society

crumble…….

Call me partisan if you want to…….but this is wrong…..and I’ve seen firsthand

what a society looks like that has no respect for the rule of law…….and part of the

preservation of that well-ordered society comes from having a judicial system

that is built and maintained on the premise that that law is meaningful, necessary,

even indispensable……to do that we need more folks who will serve in various

capacities in the judicial system to uphold and defend the law…..

I believe in what is often referred to as a strict construction of our US

Constitution……. Some refer to it as the doctrine of judicial constraint…..that the

Constitution says what it says and that the Courts are to be constrained from

trying to deviate from the black and white text of the Constitution……So what’s

the big deal liberals ask?........they will argue that it is out of date, a document

that was written over 225 years ago…..those old dudes back then didn’t know

what we would be going through in today’s world…..they couldn’t see modern

life…..they might have gotten it wrong….liberals love to think that the founders

might have been willing to write it differently….in essence they believe that the

Constitution should mean something different given our times……

And the Constitution of the United States and its duly passed amendments, such

as the first ten in the Bill of Rights…..they are there for a reason…..with such

things as…..Freedom of religion, speech, and the press….The right to bear arms….

Protection from Unlawful search and seizure…The right to an impartial trial

Prohibition against excessive bail and fines and punishments….The rights of

individual states to have a say in the sovereignty and well being within their own

borders….all that and more…..

If we tamper with even one of those Constitutional rights……if we allow them to

be diluted …..then the whole thing becomes a house of cards…..

The only body that can revise the Constitution is the legislative branch….by virtue

of publicly debated amendments….which are then sent to the various states to be

ratified (voted on) by the state legislatures…..3/4 of the states must agree on the

amendments…..something that has only happened 33 times since the

Constitution was drafted……only 27 times was the amendment process successful

in nearly 2 ½ centuries…….The amendment process is important…..it is sacred….if

we allowed the Courts to simply say “we don’t like that provision about bearing

arms…..or states rights….or free speech…..” and make the changes from the

bench…..then the rights….actual rights….of we citizens are immediately all in

jeopardy.

Liberals these days want their agenda put forward….but often times it is that

good ol’ firewall called the Constitution that keeps this a free nation…..they can’t

get around it…..unless they can pack the Court with liberals justices who refuse to

be bound by the doctrine of judicial constraint…..and US Attorneys who look for

trophies and pursue agendas……By God, no…….not for a second. Our founders

knew what they were doing…. the founding fathers, they knew….And

conservatives…. we also know. We know that every branch of government must

be preserved by the support and maintenance of conservative caretakers….in this

case, conservative judges……judges who take the role seriously and are

determined to uphold the Constitution of the United States and to fiercely

interpret it as a document that the Courts have no right to change on their own,

and no right to interpret any differently than what it actually says…..and US

Attorneys who will fight to argue the benefits of the enforcement and application

of those laws….

I’m a conservative….because I believe that the rights that we have are

inalienable….they are written in our Constitution…..sealed by the efforts of

generations before us….but upholding the rule of law cannot be partisan…it

cannot be one-side, or slapstick….and today, the rule of law just got a boost from

a Supreme Court ruling that equates to a smackdown to activist courts

everywhere…. …..And that’s a wrap for the Rightside Way