As the White House took aim at the Supreme Court, one justice launched his own rhetorical strike against the bureaucracy with a condemnation of the “government of Nobody.”
The now-lame administration of President Joe Biden and the radical campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris have not shied away from demonizing the so-called “conservative court.” After a renewed push for reforms that would make the high court a revolving door while establishment politicians and unelected papermen spend decades on Capitol Hill, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch published a book addressing the faceless behemoth “insulated from democratic accountability.”
An example of a bureaucracy was adapted from the pages of “Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law,” which was published Tuesday. op-ed for Fox News, where the first of three nominees appointed by then-President Donald Trump excoriated the bloated government.
Referring to 20th-century political philosopher Hannah Arendt, Gorsuch cited her warning about a world in which “there is no one left to argue with, to whom grievances can be presented, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. .. the government of None is without government, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.”
Along with his co-author Janie Nitze, a member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, the quote was proposed by the originalist jurist as an answer to the question: “What happens when we forget what this stimulus feels like; when we lose the appetite to participate in public life; when we get so used to being instructed by a “big group” of experts that we can't imagine doing things any other way?
In the essay, Gorsuch presented an anecdote about the director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago trying to complete a fingerprint application for a client. After being ignored by US Citizenship and Immigration Services for weeks, she had to look for a supervisor after being told to call back in six weeks, only to be told she would be contacted at some point in 42 days.
When that call finally came, he said, he was told, “You know, any of those people you talked to could have made the appointment,” referring to the myriad of offices that had been passed previous weeks
“As a judge for 18 years,” Gorsuch said in an interview with Fox News host Shannon Bream, “I went to see case after case where ordinary Americans were trying to live their lives, not do hurt anyone, raise their families, they were being hit by laws unexpectedly.”
As close as he came to commenting on the administration's proposals after noting that it was a “political matter during a presidential election year,” the justice told Bream, “I have one thought to add , is what does independent judiciary mean to you as an American? It means you can get a fair hearing under the law and the Constitution. You don't need judges and juries to listen to you and protect your rights, you are popular”.
“It's there for the times when the spotlight is on you, when the government is coming after you. And don't you want a fiercely independent judge and jury of your peers to make those decisions? Isn't that your right as an American? And so I just say: be careful,” he added.
Judge Gorsuch Warns on Radical Biden-Harris SCOTUS Overhaul: 'Be Careful' https://t.co/Gtu9HmyF2w
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On overrun government, the essay added, “…perhaps our society's growing deference to the claims of bureaucratic expertise threatens something even more vital than our promise of democratic self-government or the values of the rule of law: our nation's respect for the individual, for the dignity that exists within each of us, whatever our quirks, warts and flaws, and our conviction that the inalienable rights of the individual cannot be negotiated, not even in the name of an efficient public administration”.
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