MICROBYTE: “Guilty until proven innocent.” The Supreme Court’s reinterpretation of the Constitution.

Gasps were heard when our Supreme Court, by a six-to-three vote, gave the green light to roving ICE Patrols to be able to sweep people off the streets based on how they look, how they speak, what they’re wearing, or what job they work at. 

A lower court said it was unconstitutional. Despite that, the Supreme Court decided that sweeping people off the streets was peachy-keen with them.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote the dissenting opinion, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. The dissent argued that allowing “roving patrols” enables agents to seize, detain, and humiliate individuals “solely because of their appearance, accents, and manual labor occupations,” violating Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. Sotomayor condemned the majority’s decision as a grave misuse of the emergency docket, warning, “we should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low-wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”

Congress has the power to reverse questionable Supreme Court decisions. 

But will they muster the courage? 

If there was ever a time for We The People to step up, that time is now.

Call the capital switchboard, get hold of the people you elected to Congress, and tell them that you think the Court’s decision sucks. Congress has the power to reverse it. Tell them if they fail to do the right thing, you’re taking names, and remind them that they could be swept off the streets of Washington come the midterms. 

MICROBYTE: Guns are Us.

The recent assassination of Charlie Kirk has once again raised the issue of gun legislation in America. His was the 18,533rd death by gun violence so far this year. And there’s plenty of 2025 left to go.

The facts are breathtaking. America’s level of gun violence is an extreme outlier among developed nations, with no other wealthy country coming close to its rate of firearm deaths. Over the past 10 years, approximately 415,000 to 420,000 people have been killed by gun violence in the United States. In terms of overall global rankings, the U.S. sits in the 93rd percentile for firearm mortality worldwide—meaning it ranks among the very worst globally, not just in comparison to peer countries. 

And still, the cowards we sent to Congress do nothing but give us their thoughts, their prayers, and a lot of lame excuses. For them, the time is never right.

The anti-legislation activists keep telling us that guns don’t kill people, people kill people. A not-so-subtle bit of deceptive reasoning more fit for bumper stickers than rational argument. While it’s true that a gun does require a person to load a gun, aim it, and pull the trigger, it is certainly true that a gun has the potential to kill more people and cause more damage than, say, a knife. Particularly, guns that were designed to kill the maximum number of people with the least amount of effort. AK-47s, AK-74s, and the mass shooter favorite, the AR-15.

The anti-legislation activists also tell us that what we need is less gun legislation and more mental health facilities. More deceptive reasoning. There’s little doubt that a person who assassinates another person has a mental health problem. 

But what possible sense does it make to equip the mentally ill with weapons of mass destruction? Why not reduce rather than expand the possible carnage?

It would be nearly impossible to kill 47 children in a school, or assassinate someone at a distance of 200 yards if your only obtainable weapon was a knife.

 Per medical advice, I’m taking the week off from heavy reading. What I’m reading is Daniel Silva’s latest book, An Inside Job. I am a very big Gabriel Allon fan. Allon is the series’s ongoing main character–head of Israel’s spy agency, friend of Popes, and world-renowned art restorer. The book is one in a series, and I warn you, they're addictive.

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