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Speaking of Nothingness: The Supreme Court as a Nothingburger |
The current Supreme Court has devolved into a vile experience of Political Nothingness. Political hacks and religious quacks have reduced it to an intellectual joke and judicial embarrassment. |
Of course, its majority was put together purposefully by politicians who included a president who refused to quit when he was voted out and who, himself, appointed three of them alone; an Opus Dei
operative who sent their names for approval to the Senate majority leader; the same Senate majority leader inventing a rule that no Democratic (or black) president is allowed to appoint a judge in his last year of office, BUT (no surprise) suspended that made-up rule to rush through a political hack as a Supreme Court judge while an election was actually in progress. | |
The current de facto acting Chief Justice (not the appointed one) has a wife who is an insurrectionist, who called for overthrowing the government and was inside the White House sanctum in face-to-face conversations with the presidential Chief of Staff while also cheering on many other powerful people of the extreme right telling them to overthrow elections, and
more. |
“Tear gas outside United States Capitol on 6 January 2021” by Tyler Merbler from USA, Wikimedia Commons | When the acting Chief Justice was asked, along with the other justices, to pronounce on whether the former president’s papers under scrutiny by the January 6 commission could be scrutinized, he did not recuse himself but voted “No.” |
Being the only Supreme Court judge to vote thus, on an 8-1 vote, it turns out (surprise?) that his insurrectionist wife’s interactions with the White House just happened to be among those documents he voted to keep from the commission’s scrutiny. How supreme is that? Supremely immoral? Supremely self-serving? Supremely arrogant? Supremely in your face? Supremely successful in leaving the Court not only embarrassed, but diminished in the eyes of the nation. To be continued. |
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Queries for Contemplation
After this Supreme Court, what? See Matthew Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society, pp. xxxviii, 258-263, 300. Banner image: Gavel. Photo by Tingey Injury Law Firm on Unsplash |
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