Twenty years ago, I jokingly proposed a constitutional amendment to require the U.S. government to obey the Constitution. President Biden has one-upped me with his proposal for a “No One is Above the Law” constitutional amendment. But Biden would have been more honest if he labeled his pitch the “No One is Above the Law Except Me” amendment.
The “No One is Above the Law” constitutional fix is as big a sham as the KamalaFlauge expunging of Vice President Harris’ political history.
In the same week that Biden trumpeted his proposed amendment, he announced new schemes to avoid complying with the Supreme Court ruling forbidding him from illegally and unilaterally forgiving hundreds of billions of dollars of federal student debt owed by 30 million people. Biden then openly bragged that the decision striking down his program “didn’t stop me” from canceling student-loan debt with one new scheme after another. No wonder almost half of student-loan debtors are not bothering to pay what they owe Uncle Sam.
The Biden administration presumed that federal policymakers are an elite automatically entitled to totally domineer Americans. Biden championed COVID vaccines as panaceas for the pandemic, promising that people who got injections would not get COVID. After vaccines massively failed to prevent COVID infections, the White House strong-armed the Food and Drug Administration to speedily bestow full approval on the Pfizer vax regardless of myocarditis problems. Biden then dictated that 100 million American adults must get those vaccines.
Biden derided the unvaxed as aspiring mass murderers who only wanted “the freedom to kill you” with COVID. In January 2022, the Supreme Court struck down Biden’s vaccine mandate for 84 million employees of large private companies. The Supreme Court also struck down Biden’s illegal extension of a COVID-era eviction moratorium, scoffing at the administration’s attempt to justify the edict via an old law dealing with “fumigation and pest extermination.” But the president’s team perpetuated the COVID emergency and all the additional powers for the White House as long as possible.
Americans have long groused about TSA agents browbeating them to “show your papers” prior to groin-grabbing “enhanced patdowns.” The Biden administration solved the paperwork problem by permitting illegal aliens to board domestic flights merely by showing their arrest warrants from the Department of Homeland Security. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho) growled this year: “If an Idahoan gets a speeding ticket, they can’t use the ticket to board a plane, so why does the president seem to think an illegal immigrant’s arrest warrant is a valid form of identification to board a plane?”
Biden weaponized federal law at the same time he exempted himself and his appointees from the statute book. FBI agents conducted a heavily televised raid in August 2022 on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida, seizing 33 boxes of evidence and documents. Five months later, the Justice Department announced that Biden may have also wrongfully stored or possessed numerous classified documents in his home and offices. Trump was swiftly indicted for his alleged offenses while Biden was effectively absolved because jurors would likely see him as an elderly man with a bad memory. Although Biden was unfit to prosecute, he remained fit to possess almost boundless power over America and much of the world — at least until Democratic Party poohbahs and billionaire donors carried out a de facto coup ending his re-election campaign.
Biden is seeking to portray himself as the patron saint of the Rule of Law. The president spoke last month as if he worshipped legal procedures but his devotion is selective. His Justice Department is scorning a congressional subpoena for the audio tapes of the president’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur. Thanks to voracious Biden prosecutors, former Trump adviser Steve Bannon is serving a four-month prison sentence over the same scorning of a congressional subpoena.
Biden has stretched executive power far beyond reason — from his vast expansion of pardon and parole powers for millions of illegal immigrants, to his attempt to use the school-lunch program to force public schools to permit mixed-gender showers and bathrooms, to his perversion of Title IX to effectively destroy girls’ sports. To complement the president’s power grabs, the White House has continually expanded the target list for federal investigations and surveillance — including traditional Catholics, angry parents at school board meetings, and even frustrated young guys supposedly prone to “involuntary celibate violent extremism.”
The FBI has illegally wiretapped more than 3 million Americans in recent years, but the Biden administration recently torpedoed congressional efforts to curb that surveillance crime spree. The FBI has 80 agents on a task force to curb “subversive data utilized to drive a wedge between the populace and the government.”
In a spiel last month before Democratic Party leaders labeled him mentally unfit, Biden invoked “the character of George Washington,” which he said “defined the presidency” with his belief that “power was limited, not absolute.” Biden claimed that “character” was the only restraint on White House power — suggesting that Americans were luckier than ever to have him in the Oval Office.
The media applause that Biden received for his “No One is Above the Law” amendment is testament to pundits’ idiocy or their cravenness, or perhaps both. Biden pirouetting as a constitutional vestal virgin is on par with Henry Kissinger winning the Nobel Peace Prize after ravaging Southeast Asia – an award that spurred Tom Lehrer to proclaim that satire was dead.
