Can the courts dismantle the imperial bureaucracy in DC?

In recent months, the Nine Nazgul (or at least 5 or 6 of them) have seeming delivered major blows to the bureaucratic state and much of its power and practices. At the same time, more and more lower federal people in black robes have also been picking away at the foundations – and the powers – of the FedGov of 2024.

In doing so, they are seen by many as attacking both the Executive and the Legislative Branches. That in turn is condemned as being anti-democratic. We here at TPOL disagree somewhat. First, the Judicial Branch is just as corrupt as the other two. Second, most of the black-robes believe in “democracy” and therefore, by definition, not a republic. But we are very much in the minority.

(At the same time, we take hope: when the FedGov starts eating itself – or even threatening to, that is a good thing for the usual victims of government. People, families, companies, and of course the environment, peace, and prosperity.)

There is a third reason, of course: The Nine Nazgul and their myriad of lower-power judges are an integral part of the FedGov. They will not, without being forced to, tear any part of that down.

But any threat to the bureaucratic FedGov state by the Judicial Branch is ironic, given the situation past history of the FedGov. Consider:

• Dating from at least Richard Nixon and really from FDR, the Imperial Presidency has been feared and condemned by many – not just the political parties out of power. But this has not kept the Dems and GOP from using those imperial powers when their guy was in the White House. (Their lust for power has always overridden their adherence to the Constitution or claimed belief/worship of a Republic or Democracy.)
• Trump’s term in office, and especially Biden’s, has demonstrated that it is not the Imperial Presidency but the Imperial Bureaucracy (the Deep State) that calls the shots. The president is little more than a shill for the entrenched, more-and-more powerful bureaucrats. Not the appointed ones, but the permanent, civil service type.
• This has been not just accepted but encouraged and constantly approved by Congress. Not just by shoveling money at the Executive Branch agencies and writing micro-managing-style but still vague and loophole-ridden laws, but by taking little or no action to control the excesses of those alphabet agencies and rubberstamping almost all they do. America’s only native criminal class (to paraphrase Mark Twain) is complacent and compliant.
• Congresscritturs and Senators are too lazy to put in the time needed to carry out their constitutional role (however arrogant and ungodly that is). (Or too fixated on staying “in power” and getting the money to do it and get wealthy.) So they prioritize the effort to campaign and stay in office as far more important than silly things like really doing a proper job of defending, protecting, obeying, and following the Constitution and therefore their people (in the lower house) or their States (in the Senate). And of course, feathering their own nest and that of their family.
• Indeed, more and more members of Congress function as little more than ombudsmen and sympathetic ears for those wronged by – abused by – the bureaucrats. At least when they are not voting on and rubber-stamping the plans and bills written by their own staffers and allied lobbyists. A Bloatocracy at best.
• If it were possible to have had a “strong president” in the last 40-50 years, that man’s constitutional powers (legit or not) have been steadily eroded by Congress’s failure to exercise its own authority.
• “We the People” allow this sort of garbage to go on – and succeed. And then get upset when the politicians and judges don’t fix it.

What has SCOTUS done?

Overturning the Chevron decision is their first sin. And perhaps, in the eyes of both old parties, their greatest: If this really is applied and enforced, the entire bureaucratic state must be dismantled – or just plain fall apart. There is no way at all this can happen smoothly. Much as we hope this can happen, however roughly, it is going to take a lot more than a SCOTUS decision and ousting Uncle Joe to do it.

Next? Dethroning Jack Smith and thousands of powerful bureaucrats doing the bidding of what can be rightly called a cabal of parasitical “leaders” is yet another action that threatens the current bureaucratic and technocratic tyranny.

A man was indicted last year on charges that he illegally possessed a machine gun and a machine gun conversion device known as a “Glock switch.” /But now, a judge has tossed out the case as being unconstitutional: the man’s constitutional rights have been denied.

There are many other cases: we do not know how these will fare. But for now, it seems that there may be a chance that for once judges and justices might actually behave as honest, fair, and impartial evaluators of the laws and constitutions. Not shills for the governments that steal money to pay their salaries and give them luxuries.

But… don’t hold your breath.

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