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The Supreme Shame of the Supreme
Court 03/02/2024 |
I write this on the day of the funeral for Alexei Navalny who died for a more just Russia. |
I pause our meditations on him, Sr. Dorothy Stang, Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth who all stood up for justice to reflect with you on what happened this Wednesday. The Supreme Court decided to take the Trump immunity case beginning only on |
“‘The fix is in’: Coup trial delay reveals Supreme Court ‘in cahoots’ with Trump.” MSNBC |
April 22. Most likely this will postpone his trial of insurrection until after the November election. |
What does one say about a Supreme Court that demonstrates without a shadow of a doubt that it does not give a damn about American voters? Doesn’t it seem that informing voters before a presidential election about whether or not one presidential candidate is a felon who worked to
overthrow the last election, might be a timely and pressing issue? |
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| About said candidate asserting that a president is above the law, and is immune from prosecution of
any crimes committed while president (including, his lawyer says, sending a SEAL team to kill a political opponent if he chooses)? About whether a candidate leading the bedlam all Americans saw on live TV on |
January 6, 2021, is
worthy to be president again? |
That this issue should not move to the front of the burner, is an outrage. One long-time court watcher commented that all pretense is off about this so-called court. Six of its
judges “are not judges but Republicans in black robes,” who are making way for this ex-president to get off scot-free. One headline says the Supreme Court “aids and abets” Trump by this delay. This supreme court is a supreme joke. A laughing stock to the world. And
a supreme menace and supreme danger. It is destroying any semblance of respect for law and jurisprudence in this country. |
Respected appellate judge Michael Luttig, well known for his conservatism, was on television Wednesday practically crying for what this decision means for the future of American democracy. He said, “there was no |
“‘It is unimaginable to me the former president will be tried before November,’ says Judge Luttig.” MSNBC |
reason in this world for the Supreme Court to take this case.” Praising the three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for their “masterful opinion denying the president’s claims of absolute immunity,” he insisted that SCOTUS could have decided this “very quickly,” but instead granted Trump the delay he so desired. ~To be continued |
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