Courts, judges, constitutions, lawsuits and evidence are no longer a plausible bulwark against tyranny.
Courts, judges, constitutions, lawsuits and evidence are no longer a plausible bulwark against tyranny.
Comment posted to Julius Ruechel’s thread on Gab about a Canadian judge who ruled on a Canadian civil liberties case “without seeing Government medical and scientific evidence for lockdowns.”
I was just talking about this with my sister last week, and some other people in my community over the weekend. The courts were the last thing potentially standing between government tyranny and the people, and the courts have already fallen, albeit very quietly.
Here in Pennsylvania, there were some federal civil rights cases brought by individuals and small business owners early in Gov. Wolf’s lockdowns, challenging the lockdown orders as unconstitutional.
US District Judge William Stickman IV ruled on a key case - Butler v. Wolf - in September 2020, finding in plaintiffs favor and issuing an excellent memorandum opinion suspending the lockdown orders.
Gov. Wolf appealed to Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which ordered Judge Stickman to stay his own order. Then the Third Circuit sat on the case, and the lockdown orders continued.
A couple of months ago, Stacey Rudin and Michael Senger commented on Twitter about Chief Justice John Roberts comment in a California case, that appointed judges should not second guess elected executives and legislatures, on the “reasoning” because the elected representatives are closer to the people.
Senger and Rudin speculated that Justice Roberts was thereby signaling all of the federal and state courts to quietly dismiss or stall civil liberties cases, to protect the lockdowns from judicial review and protect the lockdown government officials from effective accountability.
Senger even referred to it as an “order” from Roberts to other judges, although Rudin later said (in an email to me) there wasn’t an actual order.
Further, there’s no precedent (as far as I know) for the Supreme Court to preemptively order other lower courts about how to rule on cases before those cases are heard.
We’re in uncharted territory in many ways these days, and not having any semblance of an independent judicial check on executive and legislative power is one of them, even if the judges haven’t actually been fired en masse and the courthouses haven’t been fully closed as moot.
Same quiet blocking technique used by courts to stop challenges to Biden’s election and court cases to present evidence of widespread, significant, outcome-altering fraud. The evidence never made it to open court; the cases were just quietly killed by judges.
And that does seem to be the way the powerful are taking over all the institutions. Not by openly outlawing them, but by blocking civilian access to them while dissolving them quietly from the inside.
