I’d like to pick on Jacob Frey today – the testicularly deficient Mayor of Minneapolis, who sat idly by while “mostly peaceful” protesters burned his city to the ground. It’s not that anything he says has any more value than a Kamala Harris lecture on astrophysics, but because he is constitutionally illiterate, and sounds just like everyone else in the TDS ward we call the Democrat party.
Last week, Mayor Frey decided to speak for the Dems and use the Constitution to defend Judge Dugan – the Wisconsin judge who was arrested for trying to help an illegal alien evade arrest. Mayor Joke Jake condemned President Trump and said:
I’ll tell you, it is very concerning when you have a federal administration going in to arrest someone from the judicial branch. We’ve got a separation of powers. That separation is there for a very important reason.
Isn’t it amazing how much misunderstanding of the Constitution a “know it all” leftist can pack into 3 sentences. Frey seems to think that the separation of powers defined in our Constitution excuses judges from the rigors of behaving like law abiding citizens.
But Jake didn’t stop there. While talking about illegal aliens he said:
These are residents, they work here, they’ve got kids here, and here, they’re not illegal aliens.
Let me translate: No alien is illegal in a blue state, because we’ve decided that Congressional legislation doesn’t apply to us.
Apparently, the Dems have changed their tune on the Constitution. They no longer consider our founders evil slave owners, but men of wisdom, who established a republic with separation of powers, so that leftists could decide which rules apply to them.
But just like other leftists, Frey tosses out these little nuggets of patriotic sounding wisdom, without seeing where the logic leads. [Hint: It doesn’t lead to judicial immunity from the law.]
If “separation of powers” means that our branches have no power over each other, then no President can be tried by a judge, nor impeached by Congress. I don’t recall Mayor Jake running to the cameras and screaming “separation of powers” when Trump was being attacked.
Coequal branches of government – and the separation of powers defined in the Constitution – were created to prevent government overreach by giving the three branches of government the power to hold each other accountable. “Separation of powers” was not created to release one branch of government from accountability, as Frey implies, but to enhance it.
Under separation of powers
- Congress writes the rules,
- The President enforces the rules, and
- Judges ensure the rules are applied fairly.
When the three branches of government stay within their assigned lanes, everything works great. But when one branch exceeds its powers, the other branches not only have the power to hold it accountable, they have a duty to do so.
While Frey was extolling the importance of “separation of powers,” he failed to see that the argument goes both ways. President Trump wasn’t the violator of “separation of powers” – Judge Dugan was, when she decided, congressional legislation didn’t apply to her and committed a crime. Per the authorities under “separation of powers,” she could be impeached or arrested. Her arrest wasn’t a violation of “separation of powers,” but an application of it.
But Mayor Frey is demanding something different than the coequal branches of government defined in the Constitution. He is insisting that judges have the legal power to decide what rules apply to society, and who must follow them. Were we to accept his vision for America, the United States would become exactly what our founders tried to prevent with “separation of powers” – a tyranny.
Author Bio: John Green is a retired engineer and political refugee from Minnesota, now residing in Idaho. He spent his career designing complex defense systems, developing high performance organizations, and doing corporate strategic planning. He is a contributor to American Thinker, The American Spectator, and the American Free News Network. He can be reached at greenjeg@gmail.com.
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