With apologies to Pigmeat Markham, Sammy Davis Jr., Rowan and Martin, Judy Sheindlin and most of all, to Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
Let’s get polite. Associate Justice
Barrett is no dummy. She’s not Einstein, but she’s not in the subnormal
IQ category so common among politicians and other public figures these days,
either. And she is driven.
She’s put herself in a cult of pseudochristians
that believes you must believe. She has put herself in the service of big
money and bad ideas. And she’s going to upset the applecart.
It’s nice to have an attractive articulate
associate justice on the bench. America loves attractive people who speak
in short sentences and tell us what we want to hear.
In her mind it’s likely she expects to be known
as one of history’s great advocates of freedom. She will be the one to
expand equal rights under the law to blobs of protoplasm residing in the wombs
of women across the land. At last, they will have the same rights as you
and I. And probably more polished legal representation in court. And more
access to it.
But it’s not just abortion rights. Soon, the
country will declare English as the official language, Evangelical Christianity
as the official faith and gun ownership as a human right, granted to any random
crazy along with the benefit of the doubt -- and to no driver of a motor
vehicle.
And then there’s the matter of citizenship
levels. We all know there’s a caste system in this country, something we
learned from the moral and intellectual enforcers in India. But our
system is inferior because it's unofficial and not closely monitored. And
there’s no official block against inter-caste mobility.
But best of all, we’ll see laws that nominally
protect against racist cops and neo-Nazi hatemongers will get the recognition
and preferential treatment they so long for.
It’s going to be paradise, people, just you wait
and see.
Can one of nine justices cause such radical
“improvement?” Yes. There’s no RBG to put the brakes on. The three
remaining so-called liberals are babes in the woods, and newly
disempowered. They don’t even have to show up for work and engage in the
heavy lifting of dissent.
When every winning opinion is a slam dunk, the
opposing team needn’t bother showing up.
This is not a sudden change. The
underpinnings have been under construction for a long time. The lower
courts have been stocked with right wingers like a recreational fishing pond.
Those fish are born to die. So are legal opinions of the Non-McConnell kind.
I’m Wes Richards. My opinions are my own but
you’re welcome to them. ®
Any Questions: wesrichards@gmail.com
© WJR 2020
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