Way back in the 1700s some very smart men included the three branches of government not on a whim but for a reason.
In 1748 Montesquieu summed it up quite nicely when he said,
“When the legislative and the executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty: because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.”
Every rational person realizes that Joe Biden has never been a Constitutional scholar even though on 6/16/24 at a fundraiser in L.A. Joe Biden said that he taught Constitutional Law for nine years … (this might be an appropriate moment to point out that Joe Biden graduated law school near the bottom of his class, and has never taught anything!).
At that same fundraiser JB intimated that he is just as qualified as any Justice on the Supreme Court to interpret Constitutional law.
From Coffee and Covid:
“In case you are not aware last month, the Biden Administration extended Title IX protections — originally meant to protect women’s sports and ensure equal access to education — to trans people, pre-empting protective state laws and allowing punishment of any colleges and schools that ban biological men from playing in women’s sports or accessing their private areas.”
Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana and Idaho filed suit, and late last week, federal district judge Terry Dougherty approved the four states’ emergency request for an injunction to halt the new Biden policy.”
Finally, some rationality!!
Judge Dougherty was ungentle in his conclusion, explicitly calling Biden’s new Title IX rules “an abuse of power,” and quoting ancient wisdom about tyranny. In his order he correctly labeling executive overreach as a “threat to democracy:”
Judge Doughery basically went back to the basics as he pointed out that the separation of powers and the system of checks and balances exist in this country for a reason.
6/17/24