Supreme Court is over the target

Conservatives do not trust the Supreme Court and for good reason. From Roe to Johnson (the flag burning case) to Obergefell (gay marriage), the court has been the king of the leftist wing of the Democrat Party. It does not help that many of these justices were appointed by Republican presidents. However, Democrat Senates forced compromise. For every Clarence Thomas confirmed, there had to be a David Souter.

That changed thanks to Donald John Trump and six years of Obama refusing to work with Republicans. When Republicans took the Senate, they refused to confirm any judge or justice appointed by Obama.

This helped give Trump three Supreme Court nominees. They will and have disappointed us, but the fact is they are rolling back the most egregious errors by the Supreme Court in the past 50 years.

Reversing Roe -- ending that fake right to abort -- was just the start. Liberals, who for decades worshiped at the altar of the court as it altered the Constitution, now fear the interpretation of the Constitution as written and not as massaged and messaged by the mediocre mice in the media.

Now the liberals complain that the Supreme Court has the last word.

The Atlantic ran a piece by Glenn Fine, "The Supreme Court Needs Real Oversight."

For 233 years, we needed no oversight. With Roe gone with the wind, liberals suddenly say we do. Abortion is that important to them. That is very telling -- and scary.

Glenn Fine points out that public trust in the Court has fallen. That's a good thing. The public should not trust the government. Trusting the government got us FISA, which later allowed Obama to use the FBI to spy on Donald Trump, who dared question the authenticity of a birth certificate that Obama still has not produced. I know he was born in Hawaii. I just love that this still bugs him.

When I think about the government, I am reminded of the title character in the police detective spoof Sledge Hammer! He used to say, "Trust me. I know what I'm doing" just before doing something foolish. One time he said that and then nuked the city of San Francisco.

Given the covid follies, I will pass on trusting the government. I mean, it cannot even run a water plant. Look at Flint, Michigan. Look at Jackson, Mississippi.

Fine wrote, "Oversight of the judiciary is a difficult issue, involving separation-of-powers concerns. I was the inspector general of the Department of Justice for 11 years and the acting inspector general of the Department of Defense for four years; I saw the importance and challenges of oversight in two of the most important government agencies. I also experienced the difficulties in conducting complex investigations of alleged misconduct, including leak investigations. But as I wrote in a Brookings Institution article this past May after the Dobbs leak, the Supreme Court does not have the internal capacity to effectively investigate such leaks, and it would benefit from a skilled internal investigator, like an inspector general, to help oversee the Court and the judiciary."

Wait a second.

This guy was the inspector general of the Department of Justice from 2000 to 2011? Who did he send to jail? Has he ever spoken against the FBI's spying on Donald Trump? Did he call out the Mueller Witch Hunt? 

Of course not. And he left as chairman of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee in 2020 after Trump fired him as an inspector general.

What Fine proposes is tying the court down by the inspector general bureaucracy which was OK with the FBI spying on a presidential nominee but clutches its pearls over Ginni Thomas being a conservative.

I don't trust the Supreme Court but I trust far less the warrens of bureaucrats underneath the government.

The Supreme Court has liberals scared because it no longer advances the socialist agenda. Instead five justices and occasionally Chief Justice John Roberts are upholding the Constitution at a time when it is under siege by the enemy within: the federal government itself. That's worth defending even if you don't quite trust them.

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Just a reminder about my Substack column this week. 

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— Don Surber (@donsurber) December 5, 2022