What follows: a far too brief question. And I don’t want to write a short diary, yet I’ve been swamped by responsibilities that mutually conflict. And I have a long drive ahead of me and my sister. And there’s a question, unasked, that f***-all matters.
So many pundits and commentators who I admire haven’t stated the obvious or asked a particular question of import.
Background. In college, in 1979, I was taken aside one day and told this: “The world has given you much. It’s time you gave something back. And perhaps the thing you could do that would help the world most is to discover a gap in human thought.” He said, “There must be a gap. Or the world wouldn’t be so [messed up], now would it?” Except for “messed up”, that’s verbatim.
I never found that gap. (Two academics did, but that’s a topic afar.)
Even so, there’s been a gap in reporting and analysis of the Supreme Court takeover of the United States Constitution.
Yet some observers get close to it. Glenn Kirschner spoke powerful words at his Youtube channel, Justice Matters:
Here are my top-line takeaway thoughts. You know:
With one opinion, the Supreme Court has converted the United States into a, sort of, banana republic in the making. Or maybe more accurately, a banana republic for the taking. Because, make no mistake about it, the Supreme Court clearly, directly, and inarguably, said, that a president exercising his core constitutional powers can sell pardons—a million dollars a pop, a billion dollars a pop. He can corruptly deliver pardons. And there’s not a damn thing law enforcement, prosecutors, or the courts can do about it. That is what Chief Justice Roberts and the radical right-wing bloc of the Supreme Court said. The Supreme Court also said, that a president can use his attorney general to jail his political rival and all other perceived enemies. A president, through his attorney general, can jail those folk without charges, without evidence, without any due process. And there’s not a damn thing law enforcement, prosecutors, or the courts can do about it.
So friends, unless something changes, July 1st, 2024 will go down in history as the day the Supreme Court turned the lights out…on honest, honorable governing in America..
Italics indicate added empohasis in Glenn Kirschner’s voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngIcy66RNBQ
2:13 mark
I call July 1st “SCR Day”, the culmination of a long con of the Constitutional Order. So here’s my question, since many of you can do it more justice than I can.
What might constitute a few of many moments since 2000, of Supreme Court rebellion (or even insurrection) against the Constitution of the United States?
Please make a list, discuss a single instance (a single ruling), or whatever you can offer. Here’s what I want. I want action, beneficial action. And that action won’t happen without considered rethinking, discussion, communication, etc. I’m but a twit. I want to hear from seasoned political thinkers. And not, “We can’t.” We’re so far beyond a point where inability somehow helps us. Thanks.