{"id":10465,"date":"2013-06-19T01:48:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T08:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10465"},"modified":"2013-06-19T01:48:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T08:48:37","slug":"another-unconstitutional-decision-by-scrotus-what-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/19\/another-unconstitutional-decision-by-scrotus-what-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Unconstitutional Decision by SCROTUS: What Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Few things are more cut and dried than American citizens\u2019 right against self incrimination.  …nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself…<\/a>  At least that used to be correct.  In most 5-4 decisions, the Supreme Court is split between the fascist five Injustices of SCROTUS and the four Justices of SCOTUS.  Not only did SCROTUS deny the Constitution in this case, but also, four critical cases remain on this year\u2019s calendar.<\/font><\/p>\n

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…The court ruled that a suspect\u2019s failure to answer a police officer\u2019s questions before an arrest may be used against the suspect at trial. <\/p>\n

The Supreme Court has long said the Fifth Amendment\u2019s protection against self-incrimination applies after arrest and at trial. But it had never decided, in the words of a 1980 decision<\/a>, \u201cwhether or under what circumstances pre-arrest silence\u201d in the face of questioning by law enforcement personnel is entitled to protection\u2026<\/p>\n

…Justice Stephen G. Breyer, joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, said allowing \u201ca prosecutor to comment on a defendant\u2019s constitutionally protected silence would put that defendant in an impossible predicament.\u201d Mr. Salinas\u2019s choice, Justice Breyer wrote, was \u201cbetween incrimination through speech and incrimination through silence.\u201d<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The four Justices of SCOTUS were absolutely correct. The right against self incrimination is meaningless, if its invocation before arrest can be used in court to imply guilt. But the Fascist Five Injustices goose-stepped against the Constitution to help make this nation a Republican police state. As for what’s next, Chris Hayes covered the remaining four decisions in two segments. In the first, Chris and his panel discussed what’s at stake in the decisions.<\/font><\/p>\n

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I strongly fear that Chris may be correct in his hypothesis that SCROTUS may use gay rights to mask the demise of voting rights and affirmative action. The wrong decision in any of these cases will be tragic, because all are key to America’s freedom. However, the worst decision they could would be to allow their Republican cronies to steal elections by denying minority Americans the right to vote. In Chris’s second segment, he and his panel discussed that.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Chris is correct that the legitimacy of the Supreme Court is at stake, because Republicans have already made it clear that their intent is to use the law to disentrance blacks and Latinos, in addition to seniors, students, labor and poor people. If destroying the Voting Rights Act is the decision, in combination with Citizens United, the Supreme Court will have demonstrated that it is illegitimate.<\/font><\/p>\n

No Republican may be allowed to infest the White House before the Injustices od SCROTUS have been replaced with Justices.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Few things are more cut and dried than American citizens\u2019 right against self incrimination.  …nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself…  At least that used to be correct.  In most 5-4 decisions, the Supreme Court is split between the fascist five Injustices of SCROTUS and the four Justices […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}