Thursday, December 21, 2023

The Waning Integrity of SCOTUS

Shall we consult the pantheon of SCOTUS who reside at Mount St. Washington?  Zeus, god of sky and thunder, Hera, goddess of marriage, women, and family, Aphrodite, goddess of sexual love and beauty), Apollo, god of music, healing, light, prophecy and enlightenment, Ares, god of war and courage, Artemis, god of wild animals, the hunt, vegetation, chastity, and childbirth, Athena, goddess of  heroic endeaver, Demeter, god of harvest, Dionysus, goddess of orchards and fruit, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theater, Hephaestus, god of artisans, blacksmiths, carpenters, craftsmen, fire, metallurgy, metalworking, sculpture, and volcanoes, Hermes, god of human heralds, and Poseidon, god the sea, storms, earthquakes, and horses.  Or really these American deities, John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagen, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson who are the seeming current gods of the ensuing autocracy of America.  To whom do we defer when the free world is at stake?  I'm sure Donald Trump all ready considers himself a Greek god, but when did democracy become authoritarianism?  The word on the street (and of Washington Post associate editor Ruth Marcus) is the states should have no power.  Let's defer the future of the free world to this motley crew.  Quote:  "There is no world in which the justices are going to empower the states to throw Trump off the ballet," Ms. Marcus opines.  Further, Colorado Justice Carlos Samour Jr. wrote in his dissenting opinion, "More broadly I am disturbed about the potential chaos wrought by an imprudent, unconstitutional, and standardless system in which each state gets to adjudicate Section Three disqualifications cases on an ad hoc basis."  I invoke the wisdom of Hermes, god of heraldry, to remove the soap box beneath their feet.  Stop shouting.  An impassioned reaction to allow Trump to remain solvent and omnipotent despite his indictments simply chooses him over state governments.  Why do they exist?  They are there to protect against sovereign rule by an authoritarian, partisan, and biased council of Greek gods or Supreme Court Justices who all ready have forsaken the will of the people by revoking Roe versus Wade.  They are there to protect states rights from a potential and self-proclaimed autocrat who has himself infiltrated the federal government and planted his own evil seeds of dissent by appointing stooges instead of scholars, mobsters instead of diplomats, and cronies instead of questioning professionals.  "Viva la Trump!  Down with the states!  We can't trust these subordinate boobs to manage their own electoral colleges.  We must send antagonists (like ourselves) to declare, 'Trump must remain King!'"  It has not been one day, and SCOTUS again is at the forefront.  Three Justices were appointed my Trump, more than any president in history.  He demands loyalty.  The people all ready have made their decision, and it was to discard Donald Trump.  State governments are beginning to understand and they are choosing to discard Donald Trump.  No pantheon of gods or Justices can undermine the rights of state governments to administer their own elections.  If they think Trump should not be on the ballot, then it would be a disservice to the American people to have him shoved down our throats by a small group of partisan loyalists.  Let the system work.  SCOTUS is not all it used to be.