Collapse of US judicial system continues — Supreme Court on evictions —5th Circuit on setting people afire

© 2021 Peter Free

 

30 June 2021

 

 

United States, in any non-totalitarian form — is probably over

 

Arguably, it makes sense for us to treat 'authorities' as if they should be ignored because they constitute a vicious and continuing menace to human health and well-being.

 

Consider, for instance, the following two bits of news — both demonstrating the absolute and unrepentant lunacy of American government:

 

 

Supreme Court allows an obviously illegal CDC anti-eviction mandate to stand

 

and

 

the Fifth Circuit says it's okay for police to light gasoline-soaked person on fire and kill him for no reason.

 

 

First, America's representatively asinine Supreme Court

 

This is the Court that predictably runs away from doing its Constitution-supporting duty in the most important cases.

 

The latest instance of doing that, is this one:

 

 

A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a request to block a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention order that prohibits landlords nationwide from evicting certain tenants who fail to pay rent amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

 

The court's order means the moratorium will remain in place until July 31.

 

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined with the court's three liberals to keep the moratorium in place.

 

Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett said they would have granted the request to lift it.

 

© 2021 Ariane de Vogue, Supreme Court allows coronavirus eviction moratorium to remain in place, CNN (29 June 2021)

 

 

Legally, the CDC bureaucracy-imposed moratorium is not a close call. The CDC never had the authority to issue the eviction ban in the first place.

 

Yet here is the Supreme Court is, assenting to continuing the blatant obliteration of property rights for another month. And that so after the pocket-robbing ban has already run for approximately 10 months.

 

This is not a trivial issue. Private property owners have been deprived of their income from (and the use of their) property solely on a government whim.

 

In essence, Big Government slid (and continues to slide) responsibility for the financial effects of the COVID pandemic that it had avoided preparing for — and continues to skirt properly investigating — onto ordinary property owners.

 

A starker and more deliberate stomping of the Constitution is difficult to imagine.

 

Nevertheless, 'liberals' and slackers on the Court continue to let this totalitarian onslaught pass.

 

As I have said a number of times before, the Supreme Court does not deserve to exist. It serves no rationally describable purpose.

 

 

Second — and in exactly the same totalitarian vein . . .

 

. . . the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently said that it is okay for police to arson people to death for fun.

 

If the following described outcome does not enrage you, you've got a few screws missing:

 

 

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit last February ruled that the cops who tased the suicidal, gasoline-drenched Olivas—after they had been warned that such conduct would result in him bursting into flames—exercised a reasonable use of force.

 

On Friday, the same court upheld that decision, declining Olivas' family's petition for a rehearing and thus preventing them from suing.

 

© 2021 Billy Binion, This Suicidal, Gasoline-Drenched Man Burned to Death After Cops Tased Him. A Federal Court Says That's Reasonable Force, Reason (28 June 2021)

 

 

Read the rest of Reason's article to absorb a complete grasp of the Fifth Circuit's legal and moral insanity.

 

 

The moral? — This is our country

 

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