Letter to the Editor: Take it from the Constitution
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On April 11, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before Congress urging them to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act without revision, allowing warrantless spying on American citizens without just probable cause. It was the abuse of FISA that enabled former President Barack Obama to weaponize the DOJ-FBI to spy on the Trump campaign and later on Trump as president. Therefore, FISA should not be reauthorized without significant safeguards to prevent these abuses of power from reoccurring in a future presidency by a corrupt DOJ.
Director Wray, supposedly an attorney, should read Amendment IV to the U.S. Constitution, which reads "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized."
Thus, Director Wray is proposing Congress continue to allow warrantless searches of American citizens, which is clearly unconstitutional and should be ruled so in our courts.
Amendment VIII states "excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted." The state of New York imposing a one-half-billion-dollar fine was excessive and unconstitutional.
The Biden Administration and "blue" states are seeking allowing immigrants who entered our country illegally to vote in local elections and eventually in federal elections, which is unconstitutional and should be ruled so in the courts. Section I of Amendment XV reads "the right of citizens of the United States shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude." The right of non-citizens to vote is not mentioned.
Amendment XIX states "the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." Again, no mention of non-citizens having the right to vote. Thus, granting non-citizens voting rights would require a constitutional amendment, which would never pass in "red" states.
My source of information for this letter is the Constitution of the United States, which I have read and every citizen of the United States should have read.
Steve Wolverton
Parkersburg