Amus de Wauchope

In my previous article, I wrote about the New York State government's shameless attack on freedom by outlawing the sale of the Confederate flag by fair vendors within New York.  Incredibly, Governor Cuomo signed the bill into law knowing full well the measure was a violation of the First Amendment.  The New York legislature is already working to amend the law with a so-called technical fix to help this atrocious law survive judicial review.

Reintroducing unconstitutional laws and regulations seems to be a trick increasingly used by the progressive left to keep "we the people" from practicing our constitutionally guaranteed rights.  When the Supreme Court of the United States struck down Cuomo's unconstitutional prohibitions on the practice of religion, Cuomo simply called the ruling irrelevant and pledged to reintroduce the restrictions at his leisure.  Faced with a similar problem in Michigan, democrat Governor Whitmer went further and ignored the ruling which struck down her dictatorial lock downs.  When pressed, Whitmer insisted she could impose a similar but not exactly the same lock down to keep her residents imprisoned in their own homes.

With the stroke of the governor's pen New York Senate bill S8298B is signed into law and, effective immediately, vendors at the New York State Fair (and any in-state fair receiving government funds) are prohibited from selling any symbol of hate or any other tangible property "inscribed with such an image". This law further prohibits any New York State institution from displaying any symbol of hate on public property without serving an educational purpose.

The bill's sponsors are quick to assure us plebeians that this restriction on speech is a good thing and absolutely insist these restrictions will only extend to the Confederate battle flag or white supremacist and neo-Nazi imagery.

To be fair, I can understand why political leaders in a Northern state would work to prevent State and subordinate jurisdictions from proudly flying the Confederate flag. As part of the Civil War, New York contributed roughly 465,000 soldiers to the war effort - more than any other state - and over 50,000 did not return home.

The answer is no.

The progressive media - desperate to attack conservatives in any way they can - have denounced Texas v Pennsylvania et al. as a shameless attack on states' rights.  Pretending this lawsuit is an attack on the individual sovereignty of states simply continues their ceaseless and tiresome claim that Donald Trump is a dictator and the GOP are his lackeys.  (Frankly, not a single member of the GOP elite has the spine to be anyone's lackey, let alone Trump's.)

Breaking down the progressive claim, it is reasoned that because Texas is asking the Supreme Court to nullify the election results in other states, Texas is unfairly meddling in another states internal business.  If the significant pieces of Texas's claim is ignored, the progressives' claim is valid.  Generally, Texas or any other state has the right to determine how their own elections are run.  Individual states are responsible for determining everything including the requirements for a candidate to appear on the ballot, the methodology of how ballots are distributed and tabulated, and, to an extent, the eligibility of voters.  Before the 2020 election, the courts and officials in Pennsylvania et al. decided to enact changes to their respective election processes so their residents can be protected from COVID-19.  Texas generally should not have standing to challenge these changes.