Slide the cursor to 15:42 to hear Alito:
During a speech before the Federalist Society on Thursday, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said that the coronavirus pandemic has “highlighted disturbing trends” in the law such as “dominance of lawmaking by executive fiat, rather than legislation.” Which he characterized as “the movement toward rule by experts.”
Alito began by cautioning that, aside from specific references to any Supreme Court cases, he isn’t commenting on the legality of coronavirus restrictions and isn’t making any statements as to whether the restrictions constitute good policy.
He stated that coronavirus has “highlighted disturbing trends that were already present before the virus struck.”
Alito continued, “One of these is the dominance of lawmaking by executive fiat, rather than legislation. The vision of early-20th century progressives and the New Dealers of the 1930s was that policymaking would shift from narrowminded elected legislators to an elite group of appointed experts. In a word, that policymaking would become more scientific. That dream has been realized to a large extent. Every year, administrative agencies, acting under broad delegations of authority, churn out huge volumes of regulations that dwarf the statutes enacted by the people’s elected representatives. And what have we seen in the pandemic? Sweeping restrictions imposed, for the most part, under statutes that confer enormous executive discretion.”
He concluded that coronavirus restrictions have “highlighted the movement toward rule by experts.”
Alito: COVID Has Highlighted ‘Disturbing’ Trend of ‘Lawmaking by Executive Fiat’ and ‘Rule by Experts’
by Ian Hanchett
13 Nov 2020
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/202...hlighted-disturbing-trend-of-rule-by-experts/
Naturally, Justice Alito is right, but I have my own take on why everything is going terribly wrong in this country.
Is it “. . . rule by experts.”? I say no.
I would say that the coronavirus gave tough guy Democrats like Joe Biden, NY Governor Andrew Cuomo, and the entire Democrat Party priesthood the authority to govern by fiat. That is not rule by experts, nor is it a trend. It is organized religion’s golden rule as old as so-called “CIVILIZATION” itself —— ‘I rule the people collectively because I can beat them individually.’
The fact is: Socialists/Communists now rule the American people because Democrat priests beat them collectively. That is not a tough guy ruling because he can beat individuals who oppose him, it is the power of government collectively beating individuals. Frankly, without the power of government in their hands no government priest is that tough on his own.
NOTE: It is ludicrous to think that a government priestess can beat individual men in order to rule, or even threaten them physically the way Biden the Stutterer and Andrew Cuomo do it. Also note that leading female Democrats in or out of office encourage the violent crimes their flock commits in our cities.
Basically, no individual can beat the power of government. The minute an individual damages a government coward, the entire government priesthood comes together to crush the offending individual under the collective weight of government weaponry.
Put it this way:
With the single exception of Colonial America every priesthood, and every ruling class throughout history ruled people by beating down individuals by controlling the weapons of government. Maybe the toughest caveman ruled his tribe because he could beat individuals senseless or kill them, but that has not been true since the day the first group of dirty little priests discovered that collective morality was the key to ruling. On that day they banned together and created the first government —— with them in charge.
During a speech before the Federalist Society on Thursday, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said that the coronavirus pandemic has “highlighted disturbing trends” in the law such as “dominance of lawmaking by executive fiat, rather than legislation.” Which he characterized as “the movement toward rule by experts.”
Alito began by cautioning that, aside from specific references to any Supreme Court cases, he isn’t commenting on the legality of coronavirus restrictions and isn’t making any statements as to whether the restrictions constitute good policy.
He stated that coronavirus has “highlighted disturbing trends that were already present before the virus struck.”
Alito continued, “One of these is the dominance of lawmaking by executive fiat, rather than legislation. The vision of early-20th century progressives and the New Dealers of the 1930s was that policymaking would shift from narrowminded elected legislators to an elite group of appointed experts. In a word, that policymaking would become more scientific. That dream has been realized to a large extent. Every year, administrative agencies, acting under broad delegations of authority, churn out huge volumes of regulations that dwarf the statutes enacted by the people’s elected representatives. And what have we seen in the pandemic? Sweeping restrictions imposed, for the most part, under statutes that confer enormous executive discretion.”
He concluded that coronavirus restrictions have “highlighted the movement toward rule by experts.”
Alito: COVID Has Highlighted ‘Disturbing’ Trend of ‘Lawmaking by Executive Fiat’ and ‘Rule by Experts’
by Ian Hanchett
13 Nov 2020
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/202...hlighted-disturbing-trend-of-rule-by-experts/
Naturally, Justice Alito is right, but I have my own take on why everything is going terribly wrong in this country.
Is it “. . . rule by experts.”? I say no.
I would say that the coronavirus gave tough guy Democrats like Joe Biden, NY Governor Andrew Cuomo, and the entire Democrat Party priesthood the authority to govern by fiat. That is not rule by experts, nor is it a trend. It is organized religion’s golden rule as old as so-called “CIVILIZATION” itself —— ‘I rule the people collectively because I can beat them individually.’
The fact is: Socialists/Communists now rule the American people because Democrat priests beat them collectively. That is not a tough guy ruling because he can beat individuals who oppose him, it is the power of government collectively beating individuals. Frankly, without the power of government in their hands no government priest is that tough on his own.
NOTE: It is ludicrous to think that a government priestess can beat individual men in order to rule, or even threaten them physically the way Biden the Stutterer and Andrew Cuomo do it. Also note that leading female Democrats in or out of office encourage the violent crimes their flock commits in our cities.
Basically, no individual can beat the power of government. The minute an individual damages a government coward, the entire government priesthood comes together to crush the offending individual under the collective weight of government weaponry.
Put it this way:
With the single exception of Colonial America every priesthood, and every ruling class throughout history ruled people by beating down individuals by controlling the weapons of government. Maybe the toughest caveman ruled his tribe because he could beat individuals senseless or kill them, but that has not been true since the day the first group of dirty little priests discovered that collective morality was the key to ruling. On that day they banned together and created the first government —— with them in charge.