When you’re not looking

Yup. That’s when things you wish didn’t happen happen. So there are Supreme Court justices who were laying the ground work to dismantle Constitutional rights for a long time.

This sort of exercise of jurisprudence against the people is usually the work of tyrants and their sycophants. (See Laphmans Back Matter as a commentary on this.)

When something has been codified as law for half a century, it must be deemed a precedent. Precedents are sacred to American law and each of the SC justices who now discarded them vowed to uphold precedent while being reviewed for their position on the Court.

Lying under oath is not a qualification for serving our American citizenry. It does seem to be a symptom of the last several political cycles dominated by TFG whose propensity towards untruth has brought dire results to our Great country.

Jan 6th is one outcome when Big Lies are perpetrated. A Supreme Court packed with partisan players is another.

These men and women who now wear the robes of our highest court warned us of their intent. They signaled very clearly that they had a regressive definition of our democracy.

We just weren’t paying attention.

Preserving what is Great about America requires we stay vigilant.

Have a happy 4th of July.

Shame

The obvious always takes a bit longer to absorb. No rush to judgment here:

It’s March 7, 2022 and the US Senate has deemed lynching a federal hate crime. Perhaps you need another 100 years to mull it over, gentlemen. We don’t want to condemn any of those fellas in sheets too hastily.

Injustice is often longer lived than its more moral counterpart.