The White House, the Supreme Court and religion in the US

Jun 05, 2017 Letters

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Dear Editor,
As America gradually increases in secularism, and systematically excludes God and the Bible from the educational system, courts and the arts, the citizens have begun to reap the inevitable rewards of sin. Decay has begun to take place at the foundation, as is evidenced from the breakdown of the family, rampant crime and the multiplicity of problems that have emanated from disobeying God.
Regrettably what was formerly freedom of religion has now become freedom from religion. Americans have succeeded in getting God out of schools, sporting events, public places and out of workplaces. While she may be counting her success on one hand, the nation has forgotten that the freedom they enjoy was built on the foundation of absolute truth. Once the foundation is removed, the freedom can actually transform into anarchy. America’s politics is poisoned beyond redemption, and the episodes surrounding Trump’s travel ban bear out this statement.
Judge Neil Gorsuch referred to the President’s comments about the judge seeking to overturn his 90 day travel ban on travel to the United States from certain countries, as disheartening and demoralizing. What was so distasteful was what was uttered by the President. “A so -called judge blocked the travel ban,” said Trump. Were President’s Trump remarks to the judges disparaging? Certainly they were.  Here we go again, for only persons with absolutely no knowledge or totally ignorant of American history would view the calumny of the judges as frightening, as President Trump holds no monopoly on strange presidential behavior.
Thomas Jefferson the third president of the United States and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence  did not only refuse to invoke the Alien & Sedition Acts of the second U. S President John Adams, but his party also impeached Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase who had presided over one of the trials.   Andrew Jackson, the 7th U.S president disregarded Chief Justice John Marshall’s ban against moving the Cherokee out of Georgia to west of Mississippi. In the eyes of President Jackson, the Cherokees had no rights …. they were foreigners just like the Syrian refugees under President Trump
President Abraham Lincoln considered sending U. S troops to arrest Roger Taney the fifth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, after the Chief Justice had declared that President Lincoln’s suspension of the writ of habeas corpus violated the Constitution.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt recommended the addition of six justices to emasculate a Supreme Court of “nine old men” whom he castigated for having affirmed some NEW DEAL schemes unlawful.
President Eisenhower referred to Earl Warren and William Brennan his Supreme Court choices as two of the “worst mistakes” he made as president.
Clinging halfheartedly to a well-known British proverb, “in for a penny, in for a pound.” Let us compare the remarks made by the President to the tweets of Elizabeth Warren after Jeff Sessions her Senate colleague was confirmed as Attorney General. According to Warren, Jeff Sessions was representative of racial hatred, and if he made the tiniest attempt to bring his racism, sexism and bigotry, into the Department of Justice, all of us will pile on. This is certainly hate speech at its most blatant, an act that certainly endorse Mitch McConnell, the Majority Leader’s decision to use Senate rules to keep her vocal output minimized.
Warren’s language that Sessions is immersed in racism, sexism and bigotry, has a similar smell and echo of the campaign of Trump’s former opponent Hillary Clinton, where similar words were employed to describe his deplorable actions.
The language reflects the beliefs of one half of America about the other, and rules out any harmonization in America’s social and political life, and also the poisoned character of our politics.
It is utterly preposterous that a District Judge would have the audacity to overrule the President of the United States on an issue of border security in wartime.
Irregardless of whether Trump’s travel ban was ill prepared or not, and whether or not there is an agreement as to which nations or people should be the recipients of extreme cross-checking, the authority of the president is universally accepted in the matter of border protection and keeping out those viewed as being potentially dangerous.
The populist right should unite on a common cause and belief, that elected representatives and executives, neither justices, nor judges should make the laws and rule the nation.
Using both the incompetency and the contemptuousness of the federal judges the President’s White House should present a case for not only the creation of a new Supreme Court but for Congress to put into effect  Article 111, Section 2 of the Constitution—to restrict the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, and to reclaim its stolen powers.
America was de-Christianized thanks to secular judges, not to mention initiating new rights for vicious criminals. The President has issued a warning to the judges that they would be held accountable for his blocked travel ban and preventable acts of terror occur on American soil.
Wing clipping is the process of trimming a bird’s primary flight feathers (“primaries”) so that it is no longer fully flighted. This is the treatment that is long overdue and should be meted out to the Supreme Court.
They cannot be allowed to continue becoming too supreme.  Donald Trump can follow the path of his predecessor Andrew Jackson who was loved by the common people but hated by his political enemies.  He still has remaining choices, which may certainly call for a re-voicing.
Yvonne Sam

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