Now that New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has suspended open firearm carry laws in certain places as a “public health emergency,” the whole concept of the suspension of rights under our constitutional system comes up. One case that comes up regarding that is Ex Parte Milligan, which dates from the Civil War. During the Watergate hearings, Sen. Sam Ervin (D-NC) set forth on this case, which he considered the greatest decision SCOTUS had ever set down. His discussion of the case was during the questioning of John Eichmann and can be found here; it begins about 32 minutes into the recording.
Watergate was the left’s greatest triumph, one they let slip away by their own sloth. Today of course, fifty years after the hearings, things have flipped. Ervin was applying the case to the break-in of Nixon’s people to Daniel Ellsburg’s psychiatrist’s office. Ellsburg of course was the person who passed the Pentagon Papers (about the U.S. involvement in Vietnam) to the New York Times, and became a hero to lefties of the times.
Now Ellsburg would probably end up rotting in jail like Julian Assange, and the “Old Grey Lady” wouldn’t touch the Pentagon Papers–or anything else that the “Deep State” wanted to keep under wraps–with a ten foot pole. In those days the lefties were generally civil liberty people; today “their people” have the reins of power, and they conveniently forget those who got them where they are.
And you on the left: they’ll forget you, or worse, if they think it necessary.
Positive Infinity 