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OPINION In response to the recent Letter to the Editor published on St. George News about the proposed Judiciary Act, support for court packing shows a severe lack of comprehension regarding our Constitution and the separation of power.

The writer laments that current Supreme Court rulings do not reflect the will of the people. Perhaps the public education system needs to be teaching U.S. Government instead of gender theory, considering such a statement shows dangerous ignorance regarding checks, balances and the purpose of judicial review.

It is the elected representatives who make up Congress, the legislative branch, who are to write constitutional legislation that hopefully represents the will of the people. The system of checks and balances leaves it up to the judicial branch to interpret whether or not such legislation is constitutional. Obviously, not every act of central power is protected in our Constitution, nor should it be, considering such a stance is a slip n slide into federal tyranny.

The ideological issue is this: Conservatives are what are traditionally known to be strict constructionists, while liberals tend to be loose constructionists. That is to say, strict constructionists interpret the language of the Constitution within its historical context, intent and explicit language; while loose constructionists interpret the founding document arbitrarily and can be framed as relatively good for the country, even if the Constitution does not explicitly allow it.

Here is a fundamental issue with loose constructionists good is entirely subjective to personal values and social ideology. For example, one day, a loose constructionist court can determine that overpopulation is a threat to the prosperity of our Union and thus determine that it is good for Congress to enact legislation that would limit reproduction to state-approved families. Within the explicit context of the Constitution, there is no circumstance where a strict constructionist court would allow such tyranny.

Another issue is that liberals tend to believe that the central government has to be the solution to all problems, while conservatives believe that problems tend to exist because of personal choices, thus can be solved by personal choices. Conservatives believe you should turn to yourself, your family and your local community/charity before you look to the government to bail you out.

Regarding the writers statements regarding recent Supreme Court decisions: First, they claimed that the Supreme Court gutted voting rights. Since he or she never actually states what cases they are fear-mongering on, readers can only speculate the decisions in reference. Allen v. Milligan was decided in June of this year, which affirmed a lower court ruling that Alabamas congressional maps for 2020 likely violated the Voting Rights Act, thus requiring Alabama to redraw congressional maps by the 1st of October. If anything, this decision errs more to liberal favor. Personally, I think it is a terrifying precedent set that states must district according to racial demographics rather than statistically reviewed voting patterns.

Secondly, the writer complains about the court opening the floodgates to unlimited corporate money within our elections. This is another complaint that I am very confused as to what the writer is referring to. There is a 2010 case, Citizens United vs. FEC, where the court ruled that prohibiting corporate and union independent expenditures violated the First Amendment. The dissent in this case essentially wrote that the potential for taking bribes was far greater than the First Amendment.

If your fear is corruption, then we need to constantly hold our elected representatives up to ethical standards as citizens rather than infringe on First Amendment rights as a preventative measure for potential corruption. Dont expect the government to hold itself accountable. If you think your representatives are voting solely in the interests of corporate donors and not their constituents, vote them out. This is also why we have laws against taking bribes and we have ethical standards in Congress. The onus is on you, the constituency, to pay attention.

Thirdly, the writer whines about the courts overturning what is broadly referred to as gun safety laws. My assumption is that she is referencing the Bruen decision, which ruled that requiring a state-approved reason for wanting to conceal carry was unconstitutional. The wording in the 2nd amendment is very clear the right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed. The use of the term militia also implies bearing arms extends to the public domain.

The New York law that was struck down required citizens to have proper cause to conceal carry. Shall-issue permitting requires applicants for firearms to satisfy objective criteria, such as a background check; the court did not take issue with this. What the court deemed unconstitutional was the may-issue policy that meant your right to arm yourself against tyranny was dependent on local authorities agreeing with your reason for wanting to own a gun.

Fourthly, regarding the Dobbs decision and the overturning of Roe v. Wade sending abortion back to the states the writers personal turmoil is simply a result of their social ideology and holds no constitutional weight. Abortion was loosely interpreted as a personal liberty when Roe was initially decided. When you disingenuously simplify abortion to merely the choice between parenthood or not, it is very easy to then view it as a personal liberty. However, when you are honest about the conversation, you realize abortion is not simply choosing to have children, but it is medically intervening in the life of ones own child who already exists in the womb.

The Constitution does not define liberty, and it would be negligent for the justices to use their own arbitrary feelings of what should be included in the word to define it for the country. They instead interpreted what the founding fathers meant when they wrote the Constitution, and to do so, they examined abortion in its historical context. Prior to Roe v Wade in 1973, abortion was overwhelmingly criminalized; such a pattern of criminalization shows that abortion was not considered essential to American liberty. To add to this, the Jackson Womens Health Organization attempted to prove that America had a pattern of allowing abortion prior to quickening before Roe as a way to show the historical context in allowing abortion.

What is quickening? It is approximately 15 weeks gestation when the mother can feel her son or daughter moving inside the womb. Think about this: why would quickening be the cut-off point for ending a pregnancy during a time when we lacked prenatal technology? It was the point in fetal development where mothers would objectively know that their childs life in the womb had begun. Considering modern technology, Jackson Womens Health Organization may have inadvertently provided the historical context that when human life begins has always been important to criminalizing abortion, thus laying the groundwork for broader abortion bans.

To be clear, the court did not ban abortion, it ruled that abortion is not constitutionally protected and thus should be left to the states.

With all things said, the Supreme Court is doing exactly what the founding fathers intended it to do interpret the meaning and constitutionality of legislation and federal power. Citizens should be scared for their rights when the court is full of loose constructionists who lack objectivity and arbitrarily decide what they think is relatively good for the public.

Submitted by MELANIE COX, St. George.

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Samuel Johnson, father of the dictionary, called second marriages the triumph of hope over experience. That sounds like progressive policy on immigration and crimeand they get both wrong.

The Biden administration wants increased and easier immigration. While most Americans support reasonable legal immigration, they reject unlimited numbers via open borders.

Last year, a majority of Americans polled thought there was an invasion on the border. U.S. immigration process was built in layers of law over decades. Reforming it is hard. Reaching consensus is rare. Neither those favoring restriction nor those favoring expansion are ever satisfied.

Past presidential administrations did the best they could, mostly enforcing the law, but occasionally inventing legally dubious programs like family-reunification parole for Cubans (2007) and Haitians (2014) or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals(2012).

But for President Joe Biden, restraint is a dirty word. Not content merely to release inadmissible border crossers pending far-off court dates, the administration has ignored the law and invented an entire parallel migration system, a sort of Upside Down of what they call lawful pathways to let people in on parole.

In the furtherance of left-wing ideology, California passed Proposition 47 in 2014, reducing thefts totaling less than $950 from felonies to misdemeanors. According to the Desert Sun, Many police say this law is a major factor in the wave of shoplifting that has plagued cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles and closed many stores.

Stores have adapted by (a) closing or (b) locking things up. At the same time, they instruct their employees not to stop thieves, on pain of being fired.

Meanwhile, New York Citys shoplifting complaints rose 44% from 2021 to 2022. All this retail theft angered businesses in his city, so Mayor Eric Adams announced a plan. Dead last of his seven points is the creation of an Organized Retail Theft Task Force. Higher up are two diversion programs for offenders, and the installation of resource kiosks in stores to connect individuals in need to critical government resources and social services.

Adams was once a cop, so he ought to understand the criminal mind a bit better.

The recidivist thieves driving that 44% increase are likely opportunists exploiting a system they know wont catch or punish themnot low-income mothers desperate for Pampers.

Former professional booster Jared Klickstein gets it. He wrote that no matter how shiny or sophisticated, no electronic kiosk would have prevented me from shoplifting to feed my $350-a-day heroin and cocaine habit.

Not helping, New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg has allowed a relative handful of career thieves to be released time and again, such that they account for half the shoplifting in the city.

Equally oblivious to human nature is the plan in Washington, D.C., to solve reckless driving by sending text messages to the owners of a random sample of 100,000 cars that have received a large number of citations for speeding and running red lights.

To be clear: The D.C. government knows who the most recidivist, dangerous drivers are, but instead of taking them off the roads through prosecution, its answer is to make people think about their driving habits.

Allowing thieves to steal with impunity doesnt lower theft, and letting known dangerous drivers off with a warning doesnt reduce accidents. Likewise, inventing more and more parole-based bogus immigration programs wont discourage illegal immigration.

Only law enforcement will do that.

But instead of enforcement, the Biden administration has just added yet another Family Reunification Parole program, this time for people waiting their turn for immigrant visas in Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

The Biden administrations pretzel logic is this: To prevent people entering the U.S. illegally, theyre inventing a program that pretends they are coming legally. To justify it, the Department of Homeland Security implausibly argues that bumping 100,000 people from these four countries to the head of the line and allowing them to wait for their visa number in the U.S. is both a foreign policy objective and a significant public benefit to the U.S.

Though they almost certainly never consulted the state and local schools and hospitals that would have to bear them, DHS has determined that the significant public benefits of the Family Reunification Parole program outweighs any costs incurred for schools and health care.

Having pressured Latin American countries to sign the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection, the Biden administration now claims that the U.S. now needs to follow through on the countries joint intent to work together to expand access to regular pathways for would-be illegal immigrants.

But as Phillip Linderman, a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies and a retired U.S. career diplomat, explains here, the Biden administrations underlying dream is the globalist one of open borders and untrammeled migration by right.

To assist this goal, the U.S. has persuaded Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Colombia to set up Safe Mobility Offices that will channel people into accelerated refugee processing, family reunification, and labor pathways to the United States. Theres already a website, setting Uncle Sam up as a migration advisory service abroad.

Ill credit Adams with genuinely wanting to prevent crippling theft in his citys stores, even if his methods are ridiculous. But anyone studying the Biden administration knows full well that its parole policies arent designed to deter illegal immigration, much less remove anyone living here unlawfully.

All the talk of pathways, root causes, and regional cooperation is just smoke and mirrors to distract a weary U.S. publics attention from the true agenda.

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Jennifer and Tim Kohl poses for a photo in their front yard with the American flag and a thin blue line flag in Star, Idaho, on April 14, 2023. The couple recently moved to Idaho from the Los Angeles area. Americans are segregating by their politics at a rapid clip, helping fuel the greatest divide between the states in modern history. (AP Photo/Kyle Green)

Conservatives go to red states and liberals go to blue as the country grows more polarized

Conservatives go to red states and liberals go to blue as the country grows more polarized

STAR, Idaho (AP) Once he and his wife, Jennifer, moved to a Boise suburb last year, Tim Kohl could finally express himself.

Kohl did what the couple never dared at their previous house outside Los Angeles the newly-retired Los Angeles police officer flew a U.S. flag and a Thin Blue Line banner representing law enforcement outside his house.

We were scared to put it up, Jennifer Kohl acknowledged. But the Kohls knew they had moved to the right place when neighbors complimented him on the display.

Leah Dean is on the opposite end of the political spectrum, but she knows how the Kohls feel. In Texas, Dean had been scared to fly an abortion rights banner outside her house. Around the time the Kohls were house-hunting in Idaho, she and her partner found a place in Denver, where their LGBTQ+ pride flag flies above the banner in front of their house that proclaims Abortion access is a community responsibility.

One thing we have really found is a place to feel comfortable being ourselves, Dean said.

Americans are segregating by their politics at a rapid clip, helping fuel the greatest divide between the states in modern history.

One party controls the entire legislature in all but two states. In 28 states, the party in control has a supermajority in at least one legislative chamber which means the majority party has so many lawmakers that they can override a governors veto. Not that that would be necessary in most cases, as only 10 states have governors of different parties than the one that controls the legislature.

The split has sent states careening to the political left or right, adopting diametrically opposed laws on some of the hottest issues of the day. In Idaho, abortion is illegal once a heartbeat can be detected in a fetus as early as five or six weeks and a new law passed this year makes it a crime to help a minor travel out of state to obtain one. In Colorado, state law prevents any restrictions on abortion. In Idaho, a new law prevents minors from accessing gender-affirming care, while Colorado allows youths to come from other states to access the procedures.

Federalism allowing each state to chart its own course within boundaries set by Congress and the Constitution is at the core of the U.S. system. It lets the states, in the words of former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, be laboratories of democracy.

Now, some wonder whether thats driving Americans apart.

Does that work as well in a time when we are so politically divided, or does it just become an accelerant for people who want to re-segregate? asked Rob Witwer, a former Republican Colorado state lawmaker.

Colorado and Idaho represent two poles of state-level political homogenization. Both are fast-growing Rocky Mountain states that have been transformed by an influx of like-minded residents. Life in the two states can be quite similar conversations revolve around local ski areas, mountain bike trails, and how newcomers are making things too crowded. But, politically, they increasingly occupy two separate worlds.

Witwer watched Colorado steadily swing to the left as affluent, college-educated people fled the coasts for his home state starting in the late 1990s. For two decades, it was one of the nations fastest-growing states, and during the Trump era it swung sharply to the left. Democrats control all statewide offices and have their largest majorities in history in the legislature, including a supermajority in the lower house.

In contrast, Idaho has become one of the nations fastest-growing states during the past decade without losing its reputation as a conservative haven. It has moved even more sharply to the right during that time and become a beacon to those, like the Kohls, fleeing blue states where they no longer feel welcome.

The states swings arent simply due to transplants, of course. The increasing clustering of Americans into like-minded enclaves dubbed The Big Sort has many causes. Harvard professor Ryan Enos estimates that, at least before the pandemic, only 15% of the homogeneity was due to people moving. Other causes include political parties polarizing on hot-button issues that split neatly on demographic lines, such as guns and abortion, and voters adopting their neighbors partisanship.

A lot of this is driven by other sorting that is going on, Enos said.

When Americans move, politics is not typically the explicit reason. But the lifestyle choices they make place them in communities dominated by their preferred party.

Democrats want to live in places with artistic culture and craft breweries, and Republicans want to move to places where they can have a big yard, said Ryan Strickler, a political scientist at Colorado State University-Pueblo.

But something may have changed as the country has become even more polarized. Businesses catering to conservatives fleeing blue states have sprouted, such as Blue Line Moving, which markets to families fleeing from blue states to Florida. In Texas, a rainbow underground railroad run by a Dallas realtor helps LGBTQ+ families flee the states increased restrictions targeting that population.

The switch might have been flipped during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, which created a class of mobile workers no longer bound to the states where their companies were based. Those who are now mobile are predominantly white-collar workers and retirees, the two most politically engaged parts of the national population.

Mike McCarter, who has spearheaded a quixotic campaign to have conservative eastern Oregon become part of Idaho, said most people didnt pay much attention to state government until the pandemic.

Then it was like Oh, they can shut down any church and they can shut down my kids school? McCarter said. If state-level government has that much power, youd better be sure it reflects your values, and not someone elses values that are forced on you.

The pandemic helped push Aaron and Carrie Friesen to Idaho. When the pandemic hit, they realized they could take their marketing firm remote from its base near Hilton Head, South Carolina. Theyd always planned to return to the West, but California, where Aaron, now 39, was born and raised, was disqualified because of its cost and progressive politics.

The Friesens and their three children settled on Boise. They loved the big skies, the mountains rearing up behind the town, the plethora of outdoor activities.

And they liked Idahos pandemic policies. When the Friesens visited, almost no one was wearing masks, which they took as a good sign they were happy to mask up when sick, but found constant masking pointless.

This was a place that had like-minded people, Carrie Friesen said.

The Friesens are happy with the direction of their new state and the abortion and transgender restrictions out of the latest legislative session. But they dont see themselves as part of what they called the crazy right, referring to the families displaying Trump yard signs in the less-politically-mixed Boise suburbs. They like living close to the center of Boise, one of the more liberal areas in the state.

They try not to make too many decisions based on politics to a point.

With the temperature of politics nowadays, if people choose to move somewhere, they are going to choose to move to a place with like-minded people, Aaron Friesen said.

Thats apparently been happening in Idaho, said Mathew Hay, who oversees a regular survey of new arrivals for Boise State University. Historically, transplants mirrored the conservative populations leanings, with about 45% describing themselves as conservative, and the rest evenly split between liberal and moderate.

But something changed last year the share of newcomers that said they lived in Idaho for the politics jumped to 9%, compared to 5% for long-timers. The percentage describing themselves as very conservative also rose.

When Melissa Wintrow rode her motorcycle across the U.S. in 1996, she was captivated by Idaho.

It was this grounded, commonsense, reasonable group, Wintrow said. Of course they were conservative, but they werent going to say openly racist and homophobic things.

Now a Democratic state senator, Wintrow is aghast at how her adopted state has become more hardline.

The state has just moved to a more extreme view, she said. Its a certain group of people that is afraid their way of life is diminishing in the world.

In Colorado, the reverse may be happening.

Bret Weinstein, owner of a realty firm in Denver, said politics has become the top issue for people buying a home.

Its brought up in our initial conversations, Weinstein said. Three years ago, we didnt have those conversations, ever.

Now, many entering the state tell him theyre looking for a way to escape their red state and homeowners leaving Colorado say theyre fed up with it turning blue. Even within Colorado, Weinstein said, homebuyers are picking based on politics, with some avoiding conservative areas where debates on mask mandates and curriculum has dominated school board meetings.

One of those politically motivated migrants is Kathleen Rickerson, who works in human resources for Weinsteins firm. Rickerson, 35, lived in Minnesota for seven years, but during the pandemic grew weary of the blue states vocal anti-masking, anti-vaccine minority.

Rickersons parents and sister urged her to join them in Texas, but that was out of the question. Ready for a change, Rickerson instead zeroed in on Colorado. She moved to a Denver suburb in December 2021.

Cheered by the states strong stance to protect abortion rights, Rickerson wants Colorado Democrats to go further.

Colorado isnt as quick to take a stand on things, and Id like to see that happen a bit more, she said.

That was a sentiment shared by Colorado progressives, who were frustrated their party didnt muscle through an assault weapons ban and other priorities of the left during the most recent legislative session.

There is a point at which we need to stop acting like trying to get along with our enemies is going to preserve our institution, progressive state Rep. Stephanie Vigil said at the end of the session, after the chambers Democratic leader said it was important that Republicans still feel like they have a voice.

The increasing political homogeneity in states makes it harder for both parties to feel invested, said Thad Kousser, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego.

It gives one party the ability to move a state further when theyre doing exactly what their constituency wants, he said.

The system works as a sort of escape valve, Kousser said, letting the majority in the state feel in power regardless of whats happening in Washington, D.C. But the local minority party gets shortchanged.

The Kohls felt shortchanged in California. They said they watched their native state deteriorate before their eyes, and no one was willing to fix the problems. Trash piled up with homeless encampments. Tax money seemed to go to immigrants who had entered the country illegally rather than U.S. citizens. Jennifers mother qualified for government assistance due to her low income, but was on dozens of wait lists that were seven years long. Tims police station, in a former hippie colony in the mountains running through West Los Angeles, was firebombed during the George Floyd protests in 2020.

The Kohls wanted to live in a red state, but Jennifer said theyre not just party-line voters. A nurse, she hasnt registered with either party and has a wide range of beliefs, including that abortion is sometimes necessary.

I believe so many different things, she said.

On balance, they feel more comfortable in a more conservative place.

Here, the tax dollars naturally goes to the citizens, not the immigrants, said Tim Kohl, who can understand why Idaho is growing so fast. Most of the people weve met here are from California originally.

In Denver, Dean has found other people who fled red states. She and her partner, Cassidy Dean, discovered that their neighbors fled Florida after the states hard turn to the political right.

Leah Dean was a 19-year-old cosmetology college student in San Antonio in 2008 when she had an abortion. She chafed at the obstacles she faced the state-mandated waiting period before the procedure, having to get a sonogram before the procedure and became a committed Democratic activist. She met her partner at the Texas state party convention in 2016, and every year since then shes felt the Republican state legislature and governor make the state less and less hospitable to people like her.

Now in Colorado, she and her partner both work from home, telecommuting to their old Texas jobs. They have limited social outlets, but took care of that by throwing themselves into politics again, with Leah Dean becoming vice chair of Denver Democrats.

Its also how we meet people, she said. We dont have any other way to do that.

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The more people you pack in limited space, the more those people have to follow the rules. Law, order and good manners are essential to the healthy functioning of our towns and cities.

Democrat-run cities often have an unfair reputation as hotbeds of left-wing activists intent on letting miscreants run wild. Thats because lefty activists have bigger megaphones through which they often shout ludicrous proposals, like cutting police forces in the middle of a crime wave.

In reality, these cities usually have two political factions progressive Democrats and moderate Democrats. As the disruptions caused by COVID shutdowns unleashed disorder, electorates in these cities started moving toward the moderates. Thats happening from San Francisco to Chicago to New York.

Their voters are jettisoning many of their fringe politicians. San Franciscans famously recalled their uber-progressive district attorney, Chesa Boudin. Who can forget former Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan who created the outrageous no-go zones for police during the 2020 protests?

Durkan was replaced by Bruce Harrell, whom Fox News called a pro-police candidate. And New Yorks mayor is former police captain Eric Adams, a law-and-order guy along the lines of Mike Bloomberg and Rudy Giuliani in his sane days.

In Portland, Oregon, left-wing excess let homeless encampments spread and trash pile up. The city is suffering economically and psychologically from the departure of the REI sporting goods store. REI cited thefts and break-ins in its decision to leave. Moderates are fighting back.

Before going on, lets recognize that though most big cities are Democrat-run, those with Republicans in charge have problems as bad or worse. For all the handwringing over the crime surge in San Francisco, violent crime is worse in Miami, whose mayor, Francis Suarez, is a Republican candidate for president.

Nor are these cities as monolithically Democratic as many think. Giuliani and Bloomberg were elected mayor as Republicans. And San Francisco has the highest percentage of independent voters of any county in California.

In New York Citys outer boroughs, local officeholders are being challenged by candidates to their right who happen to be other Democrats. Public safety is a major issue.

One of the most interesting races involves Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz. Two years ago, Katz barely won the Democratic primary against lefty Tiffany Caban, who was endorsed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders. Now Katz is being primaried by a Democrat who is accusing her (unfairly) of being soft on crime.

Ocasio-Cortez has not been endorsing candidates for city council of late, and, as its becoming clear, they dont want her endorsement. As Jeff Leb, who runs super PACs that champion moderates, put it, A lot of the luster of AOCs endorsement has really gone out the window. The more she endorses candidates, and loses, it devalues her.

The pandemic hurt cities in several ways, but those downward trends have begun to reverse. Tourist dollars disappeared for a while, but the visitors are returning even to troubled San Francisco. In New York, theyre back big time.

Downtown office towers may not soon enjoy their previous high occupancy rates, but more employers are calling their workers back to the office. Transforming some of these office spaces into residences could lower some high rents as well as repopulate business districts.

In the big cities, rare is the successful politician who rails against gay marriage. And anyone who portrayed drag queens as a threat to America would get laughed off the podium. Theres also no bashing of immigrants, who, in fact, make up a large part of the electorate.

Call them conservative liberals, if you want. They are really moderates. The cities need their pragmatism to keep the gears turning. Actually, the country does as well.

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