{"id":2284097,"date":"2024-06-26T16:06:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T20:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-supreme-court-is-not-going-to-save-you\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T16:08:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T20:08:51","slug":"the-supreme-court-is-not-going-to-save-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-supreme-court-is-not-going-to-save-you\/","title":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court Is Not Going To Save You"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fthe-supreme-court-is-not-going-to-save-you%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=2284097&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>The summary of the text \u200drevolves around\u200b a Supreme Court ruling described in the case &#8220;Murthy v. \u200bMissouri,&#8221; where the Court ruled 6-3 deciding that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alito-americans-will-regret-courts-allowance-of-govt-censorship\/\" title=\"Alito: Americans Will Regret Court's Allowance Of Govt. Censorship\">plaintiffs lacked\u2062 standing<\/a>. \u2062This ruling was viewed\u2063 as a \u200cblow \u200bto the expectations of conservatives hoping for a defense of First Amendment rights by \u2062the judicial system against executive overreach. The decision seemingly allows the federal government to bypass direct\u2064 censorship by collaborating\u200c with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ga-poll-watcher-it-expert-non-trump-supporter-affidavit-sudden-surge-of-20000-mail-in-votes-for-biden-in-early-hours-on-nov\/\" title=\"GA Poll Watcher, IT Expert, Non-Trump Supporter Affidavit: Sudden Surge of 20,000 Mail-In-Votes For Biden In Early Hours On Nov\">social media companies<\/a> to control online speech, a practice referred to as &#8220;censorship by surrogate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The text conveys deep criticism of not just the Biden administration, but also\u2063 of the Supreme Court, Congress, and the broader government apparatus for failing to uphold constitutional rights and protect citizens from censorship and executive abuse. It \u2062highlights a pervasive discontent\u2064 with political and judicial institutions, perceived as ineffectual in curbing government \u200doverreach \u200cregardless of the ruling party.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a subtle critique of former\u200c President Trump&#8217;s inability \u2064to control collusion between the national security establishment and big tech companies, suggesting skepticism towards the idea that any single leader or institution\u2063 could be relied upon to safeguard democratic freedoms or constitutional governance.<\/p>\n<p>In essence, the passage embodies a profound disillusionment with the United States&#8217; political and judicial systems&#8217; \u200bintegrity and effectiveness, urging a critical reevaluation\u200c of reliance on traditional institutions for remedying such fundamental issues.  <\/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<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s 6-3 ruling in <em>Murthy v. Missouri<\/em> dropped Wednesday, shattering the hopes of conservatives that maybe, just maybe, the Judicial Branch would stand up for the First Amendment rights of ordinary Americans against the egregious abuses of the executive bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>But no. The Court instead ruled that the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/26\/scotus-green-lights-feds-big-tech-censorship-scheme-ahead-of-2024-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plaintiffs lacked standing<\/a> because the Biden White House allegedly backed off of its censorship campaign after the 2022 midterms (it didn\u2019t). The ruling essentially allows the federal government to continue trampling on the First Amendment rights of ordinary Americans by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-nih-director-admits-government-was-top-source-of-covid-misinformation\/\" title=\"Ex-NIH Director Confesses Govt Top Source of Covid Misinfo\">deputizing social media companies<\/a> to do what federal agencies cannot do directly: police what Americans are allowed to say online.<\/p>\n<p>If this result shocks you, if you\u2019re surprised and outraged that the Supreme Court, which you thought was dominated by a solid conservative majority, you shouldn\u2019t be. If you thought the supposedly conservative majority on the Court was going to check the worst impulses of the executive branch and restore the constitutional rights of Americans, you shouldn\u2019t have. If you reposed your hope for the survival of the American republic in five or six black-robed justices who would stand athwart the tyranny of the administrative state and the collapse of our political institutions, you can say goodbye to all that. The Supreme Court is not going to save America.<\/p>\n<p>And just to be clear, neither is Donald Trump. In fact, the Court\u2019s ruling makes it all the more likely that Trump won\u2019t even get the chance, because it gives the Biden administration a greenlight to ramp up a speech suppression campaign ahead of the November election through \u201ccensorship by surrogate,\u201d in the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CollinRugg\/status\/1805981591841411477\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">memorable phrase<\/a> of constitutional law attorney Jonathan Turley.<\/p>\n<p>But whatever happens in November, the Court\u2019s failure to protect the free speech rights of Americans against censorship by the government should be a wake-up call for all of us. Our institutions are rotten, they do not function as intended, and we cannot rely on them to protect us or maintain our constitutional system of government. This is as true of the Supreme Court as it is of Congress and the Executive Branch.<\/p>\n<p>The latter, for example, is totally beyond the control of the elected president, whomever it might be. Recall that the online censorship of Americans didn\u2019t begin under President Biden, it began under Trump. From the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020 until Trump left office in early 2021, if you criticized the CDC or cast aspersions on the efficacy and safety of the forthcoming \u201cvaccine,\u201d you would very likely be targeted for censorship. Same thing if you suggested that ballot harvesting and absentee voting were unsecure ahead of the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>Most notoriously, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/02\/21\/the-twitter-files-reveal-big-techs-unholy-alliance-with-the-feds-exists-to-control-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">thanks to the Twitter Files<\/a> we know that just before the 2020 election the U.S. intelligence community coordinated closely with Twitter and Facebook to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story in what amounts to the biggest case of election interference in American history. All this happened under Trump, who was unable to control the rampant collusion between the national security establishment and Big Tech.<\/p>\n<p>As for Congress, a GOP majority that can\u2019t be bothered even to negotiate with Democrats to secure our southern border, and routinely fails to use any leverage it has to do the things Republican voters want done can\u2019t be relied on to check the abuses of the executive bureaucracy. Of course, Congress is supposed to have oversight of those agencies, which is a complete joke. If a Republican-controlled Congress was ever going to do any real oversight, it would have already defunded and disbanded the FBI. Instead, it recently approved funding for an expensive new FBI headquarters. I guess all those government censors need more office space.<\/p>\n<p>The point here is that we need to get our heads out of the sand and open our eyes to the reality of our situation. Conservatives have long vested their hopes for America\u2019s future in an originalist majority on the Supreme Court. This was one of the talking points in favor of voting for Trump over Hillary Clinton in 2016 aimed at voters who disliked Trump. Hold your nose and vote for the Bad Orange Man because he\u2019ll be able to appoint a bunch of justices! If Clinton wins the Constitution will be destroyed by a liberal Supreme Court majority!<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a certain logic to this, and indeed something to be said for voting in a way that increases the likelihood of at least <em>some<\/em> conservative sway over our institutions. Certainly, <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> would never have been overturned without the three justices appointed by Trump. That was an historic achievement, and there\u2019s no gainsaying it. <\/p>\n<p>But as Wednesday\u2019s ruling in <em>Murthy v. Missouri<\/em> shows, no Supreme Court majority is going to save America and rescue the Constitution. That\u2019s only going to happen, if it happens at all, through a second American Revolution and the re-founding of the country. As I\u2019ve argued before, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/20\/we-need-to-stop-calling-ourselves-conservatives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">we need to stop calling ourselves conservatives<\/a> because there is nothing left to conserve. One of the things that means is letting go of the idea that a majority of originalist Supreme Court justices is going to swoop in and undo all tyrannical mechanisms that a century of administrative bureaucracy has built up for the purpose of undermining and destroying our system of government.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s simply not going to happen. Continuing to wish for it and expect it is a fool\u2019s errand, and if we want to be prepared for what\u2019s coming, we need to be realistic about that.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      John Daniel Davidson is a senior editor at The Federalist. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Claremont Review of Books, The New York Post, and elsewhere. He is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pagan-America-Decline-Christianity-Dark\/dp\/1684514444\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Pagan+America&#038;qid=1695306441&#038;sr=8-1\"><i>Pagan America: the Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come<\/i><\/a>. Follow him on Twitter, @johnddavidson.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision for Murthy v. Missouri, ruled against the plaintiffs, stating they lacked standing. 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