Very Briefly Noted: Mandate Polling
Because judges and justices read the news, too.
This came out last night at Red State:
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A new Zogby poll … shows that likely voters have turned overwhelmingly against government mandates: 53 percent prefer personal choice over 37 percent who prefer government mandates.
For Democrats, one-third (33%) favor personal choice, as do a super-majority (72%) of Republicans and 55% of Independents. Also, 55% of those with college degrees and most age cohorts (except 65+) believe in personal choice of government mandates.
The poll also asked if it was “right or wrong to disobey mandates from the President.”
A look at party identification reveals more Independent voters favor disobeying Presidential mandates – 42% to 31%. For Republicans, it’s 49% – 26%, and for Democrats, 26% say it’s ok to disobey, with 49% believing it’s wrong.
It should frankly be more. But it shows how Republicans, Independents, and even a large percentage of Democrats don’t think the government has a right to tell you what to do.
There’s quite a bit more discussion at the link, but this will do for here. That 37% is basically hard core Dems. What this shows is that, for people with anything resembling a mind that’s open to information, a little thinking leads to a pretty firm decision against injection mandates. The Dems appear to have painted themselves into a corner on this issue, as well as several other issues that impact the lives of real people. Inflation, border security, crime …
Judges read the polls, but they do not answer to any electorate. I believe that many of them have a "constituency" that very much smaller, whose interests are quite at odds with the general population. Maybe I'm wrong about that and the judiciary is as independent as advertised. Maybe they even care about popular opinion regardless. But if I'm right, then the whims of popular opinion don't matter hardly at all, and we can make some pretty educated guesses, at this point, about who really pulls their strings and in which direction.
We've lost the legislative and executive branches to naked corruption. Will the judicial branch hold firm enough to stave off the otherwise impending complete collapse of our system of governance? I really hope and pray that it will, but I urge my fellow citizens to think hard about their plan B.
This poll bothers me a great deal and I will not celebrate it. Why? Because it shows the general ignorance of the populace (including too many Republicans) about the Constitution and thus tangentially also shows their susceptibility to authoritarian actions.
Mark, correct me in any way that you see fit but to my mind there is no Constitutional authority for Biden to issue vaccine mandates to the public or to accordingly control its behavior either directly or indirectly. The authority for all of his directives (i.e., Executive Orders) must come directly from the Constitution or by statutory authorization through Congress. He can direct government agencies to take actions to enforce statutory law but these agencies themselves are not either legislative or law enforcement bodies.
When has Congress ever granted either Biden or any Executive Branch agencies the power to issue mandates? Where in the Constitution is such power granted? Hopefully the SCOTUS will not only rule correctly about the mandates but make the illegal nature of these mandates known to the public generally - I'm shocked so many people are ready to submit to a mandate out of deference to its Presidential source.