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OPINION – As the United States Supreme Court wraps up an historic session, one would be hard pressed to consider it anything less than a complete victory for the Constitution.
For decades, Americans have been forced to endure an activist supreme court that often ignored the plain language of the Constitution in favor of their own warped sense of justice; legislating from the bench in order to right wrongs as they saw fit.
During this history changing year for the Supreme Court, they made it clear that the Constitution is the law of the land and will not be manipulated to meet the whims of politicians.They issued multiple landmark opinions, across multiple subject areas; and in each case they focussed on constitutional precepts and principles.
In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which declared no right to an abortion exists in the Constitution, the Court stated that the previous court decision was influecenced more by public pressure than the Constitution or history and that they were correcting the error. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen, which codified the right to possess a firearm outside of one’s home for self-defense, the Court leaned on the plain text of the Constitution (The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed) and the history surrounding the Second Amendment.
The Court even went as far as to send four other Second Amendment Related cases back to their respective jurisdictions, granting, vacating, and remanding them to lower courts to be evaluated again using the proper, more strict standard which considers only the Second Amendment’s text and historical understanding.
In two cases that dealt with religious liberty, Carson v. Makin & Kennedy v. Bremerton School Dist., the Court re-established the proper relationship between the “establishment” and “free exercise” clauses of the First Amendment dealing with religion, declaring that the former cannot supersede the latter. And on its closing day, the Court, via West Virginia v. EPA, recognized the importance of the separation of powers by prohibiting the Environmental Protection Agency from attempting to legislate from the executive branch of government.
This session was a return to judicial sanity, where the Constitution and the rule of law were restored to their proper place in our legal system. And it is important to note that this would not have happened, if it were not for the promises kept by former President Donald Trump and the Republican members of the United States Senate. They committed to putting constitutionalists on the Supreme Court.
And thank God, they delivered.
Craig DeLuz is Director of Communications for CRA, President of 2A News Corp. and a director for the Frederick Douglass Foundation of California. You can follow him on Twitter @CraigDeLuz.
