{"id":2262179,"date":"2024-06-07T11:35:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T15:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/string-of-unanimous-scotus-decisions-confirms-proliferation-of-activist-lower-courts\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T11:40:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T15:40:48","slug":"string-of-unanimous-scotus-decisions-confirms-proliferation-of-activist-lower-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/string-of-unanimous-scotus-decisions-confirms-proliferation-of-activist-lower-courts\/","title":{"rendered":"Series of Consistent SCOTUS Judgments Highlights Growth of Activist Lower Courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstring-of-unanimous-scotus-decisions-confirms-proliferation-of-activist-lower-courts%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2262179&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In recent times, the Supreme Court\u2063 has\u2064 shown remarkable unity in its decisions, \u2062countering claims of \u2062partisan influence. Unanimous judgments highlight\u200c concerns about\u2063 lower courts\u2062 overstepping their authority and\u2062 misinterpreting the Constitution. Justices emphasize the need for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-rejects-environmentalists-pleas-green-lights-pipeline-construction\/\" title=\"Supreme Court approves pipeline construction, denies environmentalists' pleas.\">lower \u200dcourts<\/a>\u200b to\u200c adhere to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-reveals-ethics-code-for-justices\/\" title=\"Supreme Court Reveals Ethics Code For Justices\">legal\u200c principles<\/a> and avoid political bias to maintain the integrity of the judicial \u2062system. The Supreme Court has displayed strong unity \u200bin its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-school-board-member-refuses-to-resign-after-anti-asian-tweets-are-revealed\/\" title=\"San Francisco School Board Member Refuses to Resign After Anti-Asian Tweets Are Revealed\">recent decisions<\/a>, dispelling \u2062allegations of partisan interference.\u200d Unanimous verdicts shed light on worries\u2063 about lower courts\u2062 exceeding\u200c their\u200c jurisdiction and misreading the Constitution. \u2062Justices\u2063 stress the importance for \u200dlower courts\u200c to uphold legal principles\u200b and steer clear of political biases to safeguard the judicial system&#8217;s integrity.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<p>         <span>Image Credit<\/span>FDRLST\/Canva       <\/p>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p>Coordinated attacks on SCOTUS\u2019s integrity, led by Democrats and their allies in the corporate media, try to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/03\/05\/9-0-decision-shows-how-far-removed-democrat-lawfare-and-its-media-cheerleaders-are-from-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deceive Americans<\/a> into believing partisans hijacked the highest court in the land and ideologically fractured it into near-dysfunction. The prominence of unanimous opinions and even more unanimous judgments not only discredits this notion but suggests a far more concerning narrative about the politicization of lower courts.<\/p>\n<p>Since its inception, the Supreme Court has wielded its authority to deliver\u00a0decisions rooted in bench\u00a0agreement. In recent years, especially, justices <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/supreme-court-defies-critics-wave-unanimous-decisions\/story?id=78463255\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cdefied critics\u201d<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/us-law-week\/supreme-court-unanimity-is-fleeting-with-tougher-cases-looming-37\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201chistoric unanimity\u201d<\/a> on cases that circuit, appeals, and state supreme courts decided in defiance of the Constitution. Of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/slipopinion\/23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">32 cases<\/a> already decided in the 2023 term, 21 of the judgments were agreed upon by all of the presiding justices. Many of them signaled justices\u2019 concern that lower courts abused their ruling power to violate the Constitution. <\/p>\n<p>In the unanimous ruling on former President Donald Trump\u2019s ballot eligibility in Colorado, Justice Amy Coney Barrett signaled that \u201cthe message Americans should take home\u201d was the justices\u2019 undivided conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor present purposes, our differences are far less important than our unanimity: All nine justices agree on the outcome of this case,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/23pdf\/23-719_19m2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Scoldings like these are not are not uncommon. Nor are reminders that lower courts do not have unrestricted authority to rule as they please. <\/p>\n<p>In the unanimously decided <em>National Rifle Association of America v. Vullo<\/em>, Justice Neil Gorsuch <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/30\/scotus-new-york-gun-grabbers-trampled-first-amendment-to-stifle-national-rifle-association\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warned<\/a> in his concurring opinion that benches like the Second Circuit have become too comfortable weaponizing legal devices like the \u201cfour-pronged \u2018multifactor test\u2019\u201d to secure a certain ruling instead of contextualizing them as a \u201cuseful, though nonexhaustive, guide,\u201d as the Supreme Court deemed them to be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLower courts would therefore do well to heed this Court\u2019s directive: Whatever value these \u2018guideposts\u2019 serve, they remain \u2018just\u2019 that and nothing more,\u201d Gorsuch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/23pdf\/22-842_6kg7.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the NRA case, every justice on the high bench agreed that the Second Circuit should have examined the actions of gun control-crazed New York state officials as \u201creasonably understood to convey a threat of adverse government action in order to punish or suppress the plaintiff \u2019s speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Justices\u2019 agreement and analysis of this behavior confirms that the lower courts \u2014 not the highest court in the land, as <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2024\/05\/supreme-court-going-off-the-rails-amicus-end-of-term-june.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the propaganda press<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/04\/opinion\/supreme-court-conservatives.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">routinely<\/a> suggests \u2014 have \u201cgone off the rails.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Inferior circuit and district courts in overwhelmingly blue areas know this and have allowed it to fuel their capitulation to partisanship and misconduct so irreprehensible that it requires a swift and firm reaction from SCOTUS.<\/p>\n<p>The spike in poorly ruled cases can be easily traced back to courts staffed and run by judges who have a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/01\/26\/biden-judicial-nominee-stumped-by-questions-about-the-constitution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blatant disrespect for the Constitution<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/11\/17\/biden-judicial-nominee-pledged-to-ignore-oklahoma-abortion-law-then-lied-about-it-to-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">penchant for lying to Congress<\/a>. President Joe Biden\u2019s concerning list of judicial nominees, which seems to satisfy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/05\/22\/biden-200-judges-confirmed-diversity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democrats\u2019 race<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/23\/judge-nominated-to-supreme-court-on-the-basis-of-her-sex-cant-define-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sex quotas<\/a>, only exacerbates the chaos and dereliction that will inevitably send bad lower court decisions straight to the highest court in the land.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with this alarming activism is that it continues unhindered if and until the Supreme Court has time to review and issue a decision. This delay makes it difficult for Americans whose constitutional rights have been targeted and trampled, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/10\/05\/authoritarian-thugs-continue-their-persecution-of-jack-phillips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">like Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips<\/a>, to secure justice. <\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s recent string of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/w-h-nomination-adviser-jones-questions-on-jacksons-views-on-racism-and-kids-sex-offender-laws-are-political\/\" title=\"W.H. Nomination Adviser Jones: Questions on Jackson's Views on Racism and Kids, Sex Offender Laws Are 'Political'\">unanimous decisions<\/a> not only serves as a reminder that corporate media are <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/02\/poll-more-than-8-in-10-americans-dont-trust-corporate-media-to-report-facts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deliberately deceptive,<\/a> but also suggests that lower courts are abusing their power to achieve partisan and, more importantly, unconstitutional results. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image CreditFDRLST\/Canva Democrats and media allies launch coordinated assaults on SCOTUS integrity, aiming to portray partisan control. 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