Claims And Issues

“What Kind of America Do You Want?”

    When did so many Americans get to the point where they no longer believe in the Constitution, in the Declaration of Independence, in the ideals that have served us well for over 200 years?

    Maybe we need look no further than eliminating civics from our school curricula. Maybe we now have a population that does not understand the Constitution. A population that does not understand the concept of three co-equal branches of government or the separation of church and state. A population that has not learned from history but is willing to make the same mistakes that lead to ruin for other countries. A population that cannot or will not think for itself but is spoon-fed, told what to believe even in the face of evidence to the contrary.

    This is not the America I know and love. Please wake up, America!

Excerpted from a Commentary by retired Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Peggy Quince.  You can read the entire Commentary written by Chief Justice Quince in many venues because it has been republished in many places, including on Wednesday, October 30, 2024 in The Orlando Sentinel.

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THEY WANT TO DEFUND THINGS. DEFUND THE SUPREME COURT?

They are always talking about defund this, defund that, whatever it is they don't like today.

          What if we take a leaf from their playbook, and defund the Supreme Court?

          That should slow the Gang of 6 down a little in their hard work of overturning our freedoms.

          It will unfortunately affect the Trio of Truth as well as the Gang of 6, but we have no choice.  I don't think we can selectively defund the Gang of 6, but I'm certainly open to the idea.

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IT'S NOT JAMES EARL JONES'S CNN ANY MORE.

Free air time for The Grievance Boy, the one the jury found is a Sex Harasser?  Why?

    The next question is can't he afford it?  (Maybe not?  Lots of people ask whether he has ever been anywhere near as rich as he claims.)

    Bigger Questions come after that:  What has he done to deserve it?  Start a violent insurrection, attempt to overthrow the U.S. government, ignore the U.S. Constitution?  And so much more of like kind and nature that it makes your head spin.

    So we come back to the biggest question of all for CNN:  Why?

    It's not James Earl Jones's CNN any more.  Nor is it mine.  I'm one of the many viewers who are boycotting CNN starting today.  We will end the boycott when CNN returns to America, if it ever does.

    Until then, alternative networks like MSNBC or PBS should make a home for people like Anderson Cooper and Jim Acosta.  Anderson Cooper in particular would make a good host for The Rachel Maddow hour from Tuesday through Friday when Rachel is not in front of the MSNBC camera.  That way, we can still watch Anderson Cooper.  But not until then.

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THE FIRST AMENDMENT, THE SCRUM, AND THE REST OF US.

Did you see the scrum of reporters surrounding the Manhattan District Attorney's Office?  Remember that scene when people start talking about journalism being essential to modern America.

No, I am not saying that we do not need the First Amendment; we do.  What I am saying is that the next time people start talking about how essential journalism is to our souls, put that kind of talk in perspective and remember that scene.  These are the people we are really talking about, not Woodward and Bernstein, not some ideal but the reality.

The First Amendment is more important than many of the people who claim its protections.  Despite them, we need First Amendment free speech and free press and all the rest of its protections.    We need to remember that when we see these scrums, I think.

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THE CONSTITUTION PROTECTS PUBLIC ACCESS TO COURT RECORDS!

Excited to accept the invitation to present the Constitution's Presumption of Public Access to Court Files at the American Constitution Society's Seventh Annual Constitutional Law Scholars Forum.   I will be speaking on the afternoon of Friday, February 25th.  The Forum is presented free and online this year by Barry Law School.

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