SCOTUS: Makin’ $%#@ up as they go
Oh, the hits just keep on coming. Many of us are still trying to cope with the news — delivered by the Court — 
that our Constitution specifically protects gay marriage, ObamaCare, and government witch-hunts against ”unintentional discrimination.” (And you thought 1973’s Roe v. Wade was some creative jurisprudence!)
Now, we’re being informed that proof of citizenship is not all that important in determining eligibility to vote:
The Supreme Court today refused to accept a case which sought to allow states to supplement a federal voter registration form so as to require proof of citizenship to vote.
Such proof is particularly important given how freely many states are handing out drivers licenses to illegal immigrants, and the Obama administration’s unilateral implementation of quasi-amnesty deferrals (some of which were stopped in court). It’s just not enough anymore that someone is here legally (or at least, is not being deported). […]
Amazing. Our borders are being overrun. Our federal government is not deporting anyone. Our public schools and social services offices are swelling with these new, um, “arrivals.” They have absolutely no “skin in the game.” Yet, the ruling class in DC wants to make it harder on the rest of us to keep these people from influencing our elections:
[…] Uniformity in elections has implications. One of which is that states will have a more difficult time preserving the integrity of federal elections in their states.
Non-citizens voting is not a trivial problem:
A new study by two Old Dominion University professors, based on survey data from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study, indicated that 6.4 percent of all non-citizens voted illegally in the 2008 presidential election, and 2.2 percent in the 2010 midterms. Given that 80 percent of non-citizens lean Democratic, they cite Al Franken ’s 312-vote win in the 2008 Minnesota U.S. Senate race as one likely tipped by non-citizen voting. As a senator, Franken cast the 60th vote needed to make Obamacare law.
The authors of that study wrote:
In spite of substantial public controversy, very little reliable data exists concerning the frequency with which non-citizen immigrants participate in United States elections. Although such participation is a violation of election laws in most parts of the United States, enforcement depends principally on disclosure of citizenship status at the time of voter registration. This study examines participation rates by non-citizens using a nationally representative sample that includes non-citizen immigrants. We find that some non-citizens participate in U.S. elections, and that this participation has been large enough to change meaningful election outcomes
including Electoral College votes, and Congressional elections. Non-citizen votes likely gave Senate Democrats the pivotal 60th vote needed to overcome filibusters in order to pass health care reform and other Obama administration priorities in the 111th Congress.
This is not just a battle of forms. It’s a battle for preventing theft of elections.
If you are one someones property against their will you are trasspassing… Any person in the USA illegally is trasspassing against the USA citizens. Illegals are like bank robbers robbing this county and taking from each and every legal USA citizen.
Deport Deport Deport Deport them because this is what would happen is USA citzens went to other countries and tried to do the same thing.. Other counties would not stand for it and we should not either
The Left (including those SCOTUS leftists) treats our laws like a buffet, cherry-picking the ones it likes, while ignoring the rest, or worse — brazenly writing new ones.
But, by all means, keep being good little submissive citizens, watching, silently, as they dismantle America and our Constitutional rights. Keep standing aside, quietly, as they destroy our “Liberty Tree,” hacking off branch after branch. Soon, there will be just one branch left: the one from which they’ll hang us.
These guys are fiddling while Rome burns. And some of them are actively lighting the fires.
I am very concerned about where this country will be when my kids are grown. This country as a social democracy will not last another 100 years. With luck there will be a third war of independence that we can actually win…but that is wishful thinking.
There is a new poll out that says that 37% of Americans and 50% of Republicans believe that states should be able to ignore US Supreme Court rulings, which is a considerable increase from previous polls on that question. Justice Scalia is correct that the court he sits on is ”now a threat to American democracy”.
We need Republicans who will fight in the House and Senate, not play footsie with Obama. That and the presidency are the offices we can influence next year.
By and large, our first goal is to keep The Hildabeast out of the White House in 2016, and get a Republican in there.
I have not made my mind up yet, but I like Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump is gaining (fast) on my radar screen.
The next president could possibly make two or three nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court. That is why it’s essential to maintain Republican control of the Senate, who will confirm those nominations.