saying the rights in the constitution was only meant for citizens is untrue.
They are restrictions placed on our government
This is correct.
to protect everyone from it within the united states.
This is not. Otherwise slavery would never have been allowed. Women would not have been prohibited from voting. The founding fathers certainly didn't misunderstand the constitution that they wrote themselves.
Some of these supreme court rulings establishing that date back to the 1800's.
That's another SCOTUS fabrication. The expansion of the 14th amendment rights were derived from battles between the states, the federal government and private entities building railroad or owning land the railroads wanted. The application to include all people was a further judicially created expansion of this.
Using SCOTUS to support SCOTUS decisions is like using CNN to fact check CNN.
It is not false, SCOTUS overturns lower court precedent all the time, DC banning all handguns for example, the lower court set precedent upholding the ban. SCOTUS overturned it. They will use lower courts precedent in their opinions but only rely on precedent previously made by SCOTUS.
Slavery was written into the constitution, that's a terrible example. Also originally it restricted the federal government from infringement on those rights, not from the states. That's why you see state constitutions sometimes having their own mimic of the bill of rights in it. Like you mentioned the 14th amendment expanded it to the states, and Scalia disagreed with that ruling!!! But since it was SCOTUS precedent he followed it.
Those rights protected everyone within the US from the federal government originally, and expanded it to the states with the SCOTUS ruling on the 14th.
SCOTUS only relies on SCOTUS precedent
This is false.
This is correct.
This is not. Otherwise slavery would never have been allowed. Women would not have been prohibited from voting. The founding fathers certainly didn't misunderstand the constitution that they wrote themselves.
That's another SCOTUS fabrication. The expansion of the 14th amendment rights were derived from battles between the states, the federal government and private entities building railroad or owning land the railroads wanted. The application to include all people was a further judicially created expansion of this.
Using SCOTUS to support SCOTUS decisions is like using CNN to fact check CNN.
It is not false, SCOTUS overturns lower court precedent all the time, DC banning all handguns for example, the lower court set precedent upholding the ban. SCOTUS overturned it. They will use lower courts precedent in their opinions but only rely on precedent previously made by SCOTUS.
Slavery was written into the constitution, that's a terrible example. Also originally it restricted the federal government from infringement on those rights, not from the states. That's why you see state constitutions sometimes having their own mimic of the bill of rights in it. Like you mentioned the 14th amendment expanded it to the states, and Scalia disagreed with that ruling!!! But since it was SCOTUS precedent he followed it.
Those rights protected everyone within the US from the federal government originally, and expanded it to the states with the SCOTUS ruling on the 14th.