What an incredible difference it is making to have a majority-American Supreme Court again after all these years! With the appointments of Brett Kavanaugh and the amazing Neil Gorsuch (more on him in a bit), President Trump has turned a powerful and reliably anti-American legal body into a force for truth and good.
The court has just issued a 5-4 ruling that declares that the Trump administration has the authority to only allow good immigrants into the country, rather than the overwhelmingly terrible immigrants that we’ve been flooded with for the past 40-plus years.
The media of course is lying about both the court decision and the nature of the law that President Trump is attempting to enforce. Here’s a plain English explanation of the case: The court ruled 5-4 that the president can enforce the public charge laws that have been on the books in America since the 1600s.
If an immigrant wants to move to America, but it seems likely that they will need to be supported by taxpayer financed welfare to survive here, they can’t move in. That is a long-standing law in America, and its modern version was codified into law in the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act – written by Ted Kennedy, no less.
Trump’s latest “crime” is that he wants that law to actually be enforced. Instead of having some dull lifer in an immigration office rubber-stamping every possible immigrant for a green card, they have to exercise their judgment, look at the available evidence and make a determination as to whether an immigrant will be a welfare leech or not. You can imagine the outrage that Trump wanting to enforce actual, existing black-letter law inspires in Democrats and the open borders crowd.
As I’ve written about previously, public charge laws have been on the books in America since before it was America. The Massachusetts Bay Colony wouldn’t let you off the boat unless you met certain criteria. Do you have a trade? Is it a trade that will be useful to the people who already live here? Do you have the money and means to set up your own household, even if it means chopping down trees and building a home for yourself? You couldn’t just show up and move in like immigrants are allowed to do under the current “interpretation” of the law.
Democrats today think there should be no litmus test at all before allowing immigrants in. The fact that they made it here is somehow proof that they are not dangerous, and they’ll fit right in in your neighborhood.
But the Massachusetts Bay Colony employed a simple litmus test for potential colonists that worked remarkably well. They looked at people. That’s it. It didn’t matter if you answered all the questions correctly. If they simply didn’t like the looks of a new arrival, they could deny that person entry. People have an uncanny ability to look at each other and tell whether someone is a liar, a criminal, extremely poor and unskilled, and so on.
The Trump administration simply wants our immigration bureaucrats to begin employing those same common-sense principles to immigrant admissions. And the Supreme Court just ruled that, yes, the Executive branch does in fact have the authority to exercise that discretion when it comes to letting people in or excluding them (you know, since there’s already a law that says he can and whatnot).
In addition to that spectacular ruling, Justice Neil Gorsuch issued an additional opinion as an addendum to the ruling, which Justice Thomas also signed off on. And it was incredible.
Gorsuch issued a stunning rebuke to all of the District Court judges who have been declaring blanket injunctions that impact the entire country and overrule the president’s directives. Gorsuch’s rebuke was very Scalia-esque and patriotic in its delivery.
Justice Gorsuch wrote that District Courts need to stop imposing blanket injunctions that impact the entire country, especially in cases (like the public charge rule under consideration) that are very limited in scope to the people bringing the case.
The contention raised by Gorsuch is felt by most of us on the right. How can a single District Court judge in Hawaii or wherever overrule the President of the United States on a law or rule that impacts the whole country?
The ruling from Gorsuch was a shot across the bow against activist judges of all stripes. He’s telling them to stay in their lanes, otherwise the big dogs are going to do more than bark at them.
