Supreme Court Originalist

Trump will name his Supreme Court nominee immediately after he takes the oath of office on January 20, 2017. He will name an “Originalist”, a judge who bases judicial opinions on the US Constitution (as written).

We call ourselves Constitutional Conservatives, Originalists and Christian Constitutionalists. The Scorecard for elected officials published by Conservative Review measures the unconstitutional votes cast by members of Congress. All Democrats and most Republicans in Congress get a grade F for scores under 70%.

Anti-Constitutionalists like to rely on “case law” to leverage court opinions away from original interpretation of the Constitution.  We believe that case law further erodes the task of interpreting the Constitution, because it compounds the errors. We believe in following the words in the Constitution rather than what we want it to mean

We would disagree with Supreme Court opinions like Roe v Wade because the Constitution guarantees the inalienable right to “Life”. The Court chose to exclude the unborn.  Their excuse was that the Congress had not defined when a fetus becomes a person. 

We would disagree with the Gay Marriage decision, because the Constitution does not include the right for the federal government to change the definition of marriage.

We believe that having the federal government “own” one third of the US landmass is unconstitutional because the federal government is specifically denied that right in the Constitution (as written).

We would disagree with the “separation of church and state” interpretation that determined that school prayer was unconstitutional. We believe that the secular humanist propaganda in public schools is a violation of the Constitution.

We believe that we are a Christian nation, because we were founded on Judeo-Christian principles.

We believe that any new powers the federal government wants to assume, that are not included in the “enumerated powers”, requires the Congress to write an Amendment and submit it to the States for ratification. We believe this needs to be done to restore the US to the rule of law.

If these Amendments fail, the federal government would not be allowed to meddle in Energy, Labor, Education, Interior, Commerce, Transportation, Healthcare, Environmentalism, Civil Rights, Welfare, Grants, Submission to Foreign Entities, Foreign Aid, Multi-Lateral Trade, Lending, Insurance and many other activities that impose a managed economy on the free market.  According to the 10^th Amendment, these functions would all be transferred to the “states and the people”.

Tariffs would be allowed along with providing a single national currency. The federal government would be responsible for defense, border control, repayment of the National Debt and planning the privatization of all formerly-federal activities. Immigration could require permission by the States and Municipalities.

Trump will put solid originalists in the courts to end the Constitutional erosion we have suffered, but he will be concentrating on restoring the economy by disassembling job-killing federal actions.  Trump would support Constitutional restoration, but the Congress has the ball.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader