The constitutionalists, (AKA conservatives,) of the United States of America have been repeatedly abandoned by its so-called elected conservatives in recent years.
As constitutionalists in the US Congress have recently struggled to bring fidelity to our Constitution to the forefront of their workings, leadership has undermined them.
Constitutionalists in the House first voted to return the ability to vacate the Speaker, as a condition to Kevin McCarthy’s appointment to Speakership, (after Nancy Pelosi had removed it.)
This was intended to preserve the rights of constitutionalists to direct the workings of the House of Representatives.
Mr. McCarthy began as a marked improvement to his predecessor, but began slipping, allowing the power brokers throughout the US Congress, (or lobbyists,) and giving way to massive spending bills.
Many of the elected Republicans within the House then voted to vacate the Speakership and Replaced him with Representative, Mike Johnson.
Mr. McCarthy has announced his retirement, leaving one Republican seat in jeopardy to Democrats.
With such a small Republican majority in the House, a minority in the Senate, a Democrat president, and with rabid Marxists in control of our nation’s agenda, this slim House majority gives constitutionalists almost no voice in our government.
Along with the resignation of McCarthy, two other Republican representatives have chosen to retire. This leaves the current balance of power in the House, in jeopardy.
How will these vacancies be filled?
There will be special elections to replace them, and the political balance of House districts will largely decide those outcomes.
I cannot speak of the political complexions of the voting districts that will decide those elections. Still, I do recognize the importance of holding on to every advantage held by Republicans in Congress.
With that said, Louisiana has just elected a “constitutionalist” as governor, and replaced many RINOs in the Louisiana legislature with “constitutionalists,” only to have our new “Constitutionalist” Governor call for a special session of the legislature to draw new US house districts to give greater emphasis to “majority-minority,” or Democrat-leaning voters.
Why on earth would “constitutionalists” do such a thing?
I have no idea.
The US Constitution gives the drawing of House districts to the state’s legislatures. Why would Louisiana’s legislature choose to re-draw the lines of house districts?
It was in response to a judge’s order.
Let me ask you what authority does any judge have to require a state’s legislature to re-draw their district lines?
The US Constitution says in Article 1, section 2,
“The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative….”
Nowhere is the authority to draw the lines of these districts given to a judge or Governor, yet a judge ruled that Louisiana’s congressional districts were not satisfactory because Democrat control was not favored, and our new “conservative” governor, Jeff Landry has agreed that his first duty was to address this “problem.”
I smell a double-cross.
It is easy to be myopic, to see this as only Louisiana’s problem, but the political balance of the whole nation is held in the balance. Every constitutional conservative in the nation is in danger of having the tiny area of their control wrestled from them by this calculated assault on our democratic republic.
Louisiana’s new “conservative” governor and legislature have run headlong into this situation with no apparent concern for the national repercussions.
First, both of Louisiana’s Republican Senators voted to reelect Mitch McConnell to the leadership of our party’s Senate minority. Now Republicans in the House of Representatives have had their leadership jeopardized by resignations, and Louisiana is poised to hand full control of the US House of Representatives over to Democrats, at a time when so much is at stake.
Chris Alexander and Danielle Walker have discussed this predicament with qualified people on recent episodes of “The State of Freedom” podcast. Please listen to them for a better understanding of this matter.
They can be found at the following links;
God bless you, Dave
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” __John Adams
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