Crises the White House is Causing At Home and Abroad

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Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, our country is obviously in bad shape, and I think our forefathers, if they saw the way we operated today, would be quite stunned and wonder where in their Constitution they let us down to wind up where we are today.

I think of the three branches of government. The judiciary is the one which right now has let down the Framers the most. Our forefathers realized that a country with elections usually eventually fails because the majority can either want, or be manipulated into wanting, more stuff, or ordering other people around to order them to be obeyed the way they would like other people to be behaved.

The Bill of Rights is almost exclusively about restricting the role of government in American life. Obviously, the Supreme Court has largely abandoned that function. Things got bad in the 1930s and 1940s, and again in the 1960s. Today, one wonders what the Court will ever say no to.

Where will Judge Jackson fit as we try to defend our Constitution? We look at her inability to say what a woman is and her inability to talk about judicial philosophy, and we know where she will stand. She stands with woke America. I hate that word, but that is what it is. It is somebody who has no respect for tradition. If you have no respect for tradition or common sense, you certainly don't have that near reverence, which should be a requirement for any Supreme Court Justice.

Furthermore, President Biden got himself in a position in which he said he is going to have to promote a Black woman to that position. The very idea that you think decisions on a court should vary with the background of the person who is on that court shows you don't have that respect for the Constitution.

All Americans should have an originalist view of the Constitution and consider it the great, almost God-given, document that it is.

In any event, when you don't have that respect for the Constitution, you know you are not going to respect the Second Amendment. You are not going to respect the 10th Amendment; it is a disaster we have ignored it. You are going to continue to stretch the Commerce Clause all out of whack. You are going to look at every individual as a member of a group, never as an individual in their own right.

Right now, about 2 percent of the lawyers in the country are Black women. So, what Joe Biden did is he took 98 percent of the possible resumes for this very important job and threw them in the garbage.

I wonder if President Biden does that anywhere else in his life? Does he throw away 98 percent of the resumes or potential resumes when he is looking for a new dentist, a new plumber, a new clergyman, throw out 98 percent willy-nilly? That is what he has done in picking a new Supreme Court Justice who could well be on the Court for the next 40 years.

Our forefathers felt that by giving us this Constitution--they pointed out that this Constitution is fit for moral and religious people and not fit for anyone else. Will Judge Jackson respect that? I don't know.

When they finished the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin said: We are giving you a republic, if you can keep it.

We are, right now, being tested whether we are the moral and religious people that can keep the republic that the forefathers felt they described in the Constitution.

It looks to me, from everything you hear about her, that Judge Jackson is not going to have that reverence to keep that Constitution, to keep that republic. We will, therefore, with judges like that, wind up collapsing.

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