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Holiness and Justice and Perfidy of the Supreme Court 07/04/2023 |
Last week we began looking at a fourth sign of holiness to accompany those of Joy, Courage and Generosity already named. Justice is that fourth sign. Holiness
today surely has to do with working for justice: Eco, social, economic, racial, gender and gender diversity justice.
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In a rather stark example of synchronicity, the Supreme Court, ostensibly an arbiter of
justice, delivered its latest decisions at the same time we began our series on Justice and Holiness. The court struck down laws that acknowledge the | |
unjust history in America that treated slaves as 3/5 of a human being and attempted some remedy done these millions of people over hundreds of years by considering race as a partial dimension in accepting students into higher education as well as loan forgiveness. Not really “the Supreme Court” so much as six members of the Supreme Court, each chosen by avowed operative of a fascist religious cult, namely Leonard Leo. The same fellow is front and center in photographs of rich white billionaire republican donors buddying up with at least two of these judges on lavish vacations worth
multi-thousands of dollars of unreported gift-giving. |
After SCOTUS ruled a web designer entitled to refuse same-sex wedding work based on the First Amendment, the hypothetical case is shown to be based on fraud. ABC News | No court in the country is so compromised as this so-called supreme court. But they go on and on, lacking any shame whatsoever for their crimes. (Yes, it is a crime for public officials to take bribes and it is a crime not to report such “gifts”
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it ought to be a crime to jeopardize the reputation of the third branch of government). Advancing blithely on and passing legislation that a clear majority in the country do not want (cf, Dobbs), they act not like a court of jurisprudence but as another legislative branch making laws and tearing up laws that republican lawmakers could not themselves get passed. I expect universities to buckle down, dig deep, stir their moral and legal imaginations and create end runs around this mistake. We shall see. |
Meanwhile, a minority of the court have spoken out eloquently about these damaging undoings of American justice. About vetoing loan forgiveness for students, Justice Kagan writes: | CNN senior Supreme
Court analyst Joan Biskupic describes the Supreme Court justices’ delivery of their decision and dissent on rolling back affirmative action. |
In every respect, the court today exceeds its proper, limited role in our Nation’s
governance. It will take holiness—and organizing and action and good people running for office and much more including joy, courage and generosity–to move beyond the perfidy of this compromised supreme court. To be continued |
See Matthew Fox, The Tao of Thomas Aquinas: Fierce Wisdom for Hard Times, pp. 109-112.
Banner Image: Defend Diversity students outside the Supreme Court as affirmative action cases argued inside –
Students for Fair Admissions ,Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College, and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Univeristy of North Carolina. Photo by Victoria Pickering on Flickr. |
Queries for Contemplation How are you undergoing holiness today by working for justice? What realms of justice are you choosing to work for? What realms of injustice are you choosing to oppose—and how? |
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