{"id":6506,"date":"2023-07-03T09:32:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T13:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=6506"},"modified":"2023-07-03T09:32:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T13:32:11","slug":"eroding-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2023\/07\/03\/eroding-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Eroding Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teaching<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I was a school teacher for twenty-eight years.&nbsp;&nbsp;I taught social studies:&nbsp;&nbsp;economics and current affairs, World, American and Ohio history, and from sixth graders through seniors.&nbsp;&nbsp;But for most of those years I was an American Government teacher.&nbsp;&nbsp;We called it \u201cPrinciples of Democracy\u201d or \u201cPOD\u201d at the beginning, but eventually we got down to just \u201cGovernment\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;And when I was teaching, it was a senior class, the \u201cbest, last chance\u201d to teach the soon to be voting students about their government, their rights and responsibilities.&nbsp;&nbsp;I started when the Vietnam War was \u201crecent events\u201d, a draft card still in my wallet.&nbsp;&nbsp;I ended with some graduates headed to Afghanistan and Iraq to fight our battles there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No matter the year or the era, there were certain basic concepts from beginning to end.&nbsp;&nbsp;We discussed the nuances of the Constitution, the competing forces among the branches and levels of the government, and the people.&nbsp;&nbsp;We had rituals, like the \u201cprocess of legislation\u201d lecture (\u201cI\u2019m Just a Bill\u201d on steroids) that was diagramed in chalk across the entire front of the room. There were the mock trials, followed by a trip to the Courthouse (and the Spaghetti Warehouse).&nbsp;&nbsp;And there were the discussions:&nbsp;&nbsp;how could the Founding Fathers write about liberty and own slaves; what were the limits of Freedom of Speech; and why have we fought six wars without Congress declaring one?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Basic Principles<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>One basic principle was about the nature of the Supreme Court.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is the least defined of the three branches of government.&nbsp;&nbsp;Article I outlines the legislative branch with ten sections, Article II the executive branch, four.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Judicial article only has three.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Court determined for itself (<em>Marbury v Madison<\/em>) their fundamental power of judicial review, but its jurisdiction is still restrained by Congressional legislation.&nbsp;&nbsp;And unlike the Congress and the Executive, both independently selected by \u201cthe people\u201d; the Justices are dependent on both those branches to gain their seats. But once there, they are unfettered by any process of recall (except impeachment for \u201cbad\u201d behavior).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I taught about the Court(s), I called on my brief stint in law school to add to the explanations.&nbsp;&nbsp;A foundational core of Judiciary of the United States was this:&nbsp;&nbsp;there are no \u201cadvisory\u201d opinions.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Court only rules on actual facts, in cases where someone could claim actual damages.&nbsp;&nbsp;While the law, and certainly law school, was filled with \u201cwhat-if\u2019s\u201d, the Court itself was bound by the facts of a case in front of their bench, the laws \u201con the books\u201d, and the precedents going back centuries of how other judges decided similar situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stare Decis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Precedence is one way that judges, and particularly Justices of the Supreme Court, can measure their personal opinions against generations of judges.&nbsp;&nbsp;While a single judge may be passionate about an issue or \u201cside\u201d, it is part of their obligation to \u201cbalance\u201d those passions against the past.&nbsp;&nbsp;Precedence has weight, both in respecting previous generations of the judiciary, and also as a sign of stability in the Judicial system.&nbsp;&nbsp;Stare Decis (precedence) is the \u201cfooter\u201d, the foundation upon which our whole legal system is built. (<em>And a basic \u201cbuilding block\u201d of law school, where the \u201cfoot-notes\u201d are all about bolstering each legal assertion with \u201con point\u201d decisions of the past).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both of those principles, determining the law based on fact, and tempering passion with precedent, went out the window last year in the United States Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Duty Bound<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Justices Kavanaugh, Barrett, Gorsuch, Alito, Thomas and Roberts all paid lip-service to the importance of Stare Decis as they sat before the Senate.&nbsp;&nbsp;They all used terms like \u201c\u2026well and accepted law\u201d when talking about&nbsp;<em>Roe v Wade&nbsp;<\/em>and the whole series of cases dealing with affirmative action.&nbsp;&nbsp;But in this past year, they determined that the weight of their own interpretation of the Constitution was more important that the decades of Court decisions honoring those precedents.&nbsp;&nbsp;They overturned&nbsp;<em>Roe, Casey, Baake, University of Michigan<\/em>, and redefined the nature of public discrimination.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I suspect they see themselves as the modern Earl Warren\u2019s and William Douglas\u2019s, changing American law to their own version of the Constitution.&nbsp;&nbsp;Actually, I imagine that they see themselves as duty bound to undo the decisions of that era; seeing the decades from&nbsp;<em>Brown v Board of Education<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<em>Planned Parenthood v Casey<\/em>&nbsp;as a massive Constitutional aberration to be \u201cfixed\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s hard to determine if they \u201cjust\u201d have a different view of the Constitution, or a different vision of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cases to Fit&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the\u00a0<em>Harvard<\/em>\u00a0case, Asian students were the defined \u201cvictim\u201d of affirmative action.\u00a0\u00a0And while lower Courts determined that they were not really aggrieved (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/01\/us\/harvard-admissions-lawsuit.html\">NYT<\/a>), the Court majority used their plea to justify a \u201ccolor-blind\u201d interpretation of the 14<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Amendment (written literally to guarantee that the Black formerly enslaved gained full citizenship status).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Forty-five years of Supreme Court decisions were thrown out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Asian students became the \u201cstraw-man\u201d to support the pillar of \u201caggrievement\u201d, regardless of whether they were really damaged or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And in the&nbsp;<em>303 Creative v Ellis,&nbsp;<\/em>the Court determined a case based on \u201cwhat-if\u2019s\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;A web designer determined that she wouldn\u2019t open a wedding webpage business, because IF she did and a gay couple asked for a page, then she would refuse to do it, in violation of Colorado law.&nbsp;&nbsp;She filed her case before there was any actual business, any actual gay couple asking for a webpage, and any actual violation of the Colorado law.&nbsp;&nbsp;As a plaintiff without damage, she shouldn\u2019t have had standing in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Facts Didn\u2019t Matter<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>But the Court overlooked her lack of qualification, and even was \u201cbamboozled\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;by fake statements in her brief.&nbsp;&nbsp;Instead, the majority created a whole new \u201ccut-out\u201d in the free speech clause of the First Amendment, claiming her right to free speech allows her to discriminate against gay couples in her (aspirational) public business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It opens a whole new expansion of discriminatory behavior, based on speech rather than religious beliefs.&nbsp;&nbsp;It raises the specter of the worst public discriminations of the past.&nbsp;&nbsp;If I am a \u201ccheeseburger artist\u201d, in a public restaurant, can I refuse to serve a gay couple, an interracial couple, a Black or Asian person, because I don\u2019t \u201cbelieve\u201d in their choices?&nbsp;&nbsp;Can I determine who sits at my lunch counter?&nbsp;&nbsp;Can I use an ax handle to drive unwanted customers from my establishment (<a href=\"https:\/\/crdl.usg.edu\/record\/ugabma_wsbn_wsbn47697\">Georgia<\/a>)? (<em>After all, that was in 1965, not that long ago).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if a case could be made just on \u201caspirations\u201d, then Rosa Parks didn\u2019t need to sit in the front of the bus, or Oliver Brown didn\u2019t have to try to enroll his daughter Linda in school, or Mary Beth Tinker didn\u2019t have to wear her armband to protest the Vietnam War.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mission<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Clearly, it\u2019s the mission of the current Supreme Court majority to turn back the decisions of the past half century.\u00a0\u00a0And they are in such an all-mighty hurry to do it, they are willing to risk the very foundations of the Court they now control.\u00a0\u00a0When Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that the Cherokee could not be driven from their homes in Georgia onto the Trail of Tears (<em>Cherokee Nation v Georgia<\/em>), President Andrew Jackson stated:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cJohn Marshall has made his decision, let him enforce it\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jackson ignored the Court, and did what he wanted regardless of their decision.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was the political consequence that Marshall avoided in&nbsp;<em>Marbury v Madison<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The actions of today\u2019s Court puts it squarely in the same jeopardy.&nbsp;&nbsp;Will the \u201crest\u201d of the government support a Court so out of step with its time?&nbsp;&nbsp;Or will it simply wait, until these Justices are gone, and a new Court can undo the damage done by the radical majority in the saddle?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what are Government teachers saying in class today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching I was a school teacher for twenty-eight years.&nbsp;&nbsp;I taught social studies:&nbsp;&nbsp;economics and current affairs, World, American and Ohio history, and from sixth graders through seniors.&nbsp;&nbsp;But for most of those years I was an American Government teacher.&nbsp;&nbsp;We called it \u201cPrinciples of Democracy\u201d or \u201cPOD\u201d at the beginning, but eventually we got down to just \u201cGovernment\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2023\/07\/03\/eroding-foundation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eroding Foundation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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