“SCOTUS as mice, trashes justice, and feast off the US Constitution. As justices, do they don black robes to hide their naked integrity?” John Johnson II, 02/14/24
By John Johnson II
John Steinbeck in 1937 authored a novel entitled “Of Mice and Men.” A central theme in this novel focused on enduring human values. Will SCOTUS’ values, integrity, and oaths to the US Constitution influence their decisions to protect democracy from insurrectionists? Or will they retreat like mice? Now, SCOTUS faces a ruling for or against Colorado’s Supreme Court execution of Section 3, disqualification clause. Will they rule that Trump is ineligible to appear on Colorado’s primary 2024 presidential ballot?
Again, will SCOTUS rule as judicial mice and attempt to shield Trump? Or will they rule with integrity such that no elected Official who overtly or covertly engaged in an insurrection or gave comfort cannot run for or hold any public office. David Duke, though a white supremacist and former KKK leader, serve (1989-93) in the Louisiana House of Representatives. He even ran for president in 1988 and 1992. But he never violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
SCOTUS historically has a sordid legacy such that its unjust and honorable decisions resemble a striped zebra. Scholars have decried the Dred Scott decision of 1857 as the worst decision rendered by the Court. It’s now followed by the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Currently, SCOTUS is facing another consequential case, Trump v. Anderson.
Unfortunately, SCOTUS is leaning towards rendering a political decision instead of one based on the actual meaning/reading of Sec. 3 of the 14th Amendment. This Court appears to abandon its integrity and originalist interpretation of the US Constitution.
Voters cannot afford to think of Trump as an empty wagon. Instead, he’s filled with idiocy, Fascism, and a lust for unlimited power. SCOTUS is cloaked in black robes but naked of integrity if they rule as judicial mice and oppressors of Colorado’s state’s Supreme Court judiciary.
Colorado didn’t violate the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. Trump’s trial occurred before this Court. His slate of lawyers defended his presumptive innocence.. However, the Court ruled him to have violated Sec. 3 of the 14th Amendment.
This trial alone demonstrated the mutual exclusivity of the due process and disqualification clauses. In other words, no individuals, not even Trump, should face denial of their inalienable rights without due process. Therefore, this trial and conviction validated execution of the disqualification clause. Who had standings if not a state to initiate this trial?
The US Constitution does not authorize SCOTUS to seek out injustices in America and to correct them. No, it’s individuals, corporations, and states that seek redress for oppression, injustices, discrimination, segregation, and intrusion of religion.
Republican Congresspersons behave as a cult. It isn’t a secret, more than a dozen of them participated in Trump’s plot to overthrow the government. Does SCOTUS think that they’ll use Sec. 3, to disqualify themselves? Recently, some of Trump’s closest Republican Senate allies defended his dangerous threatening comments against NATO.
The Senate refused twice to convict and remove Trump from office. Senator McConnell said Trump still will not escape justice from federal or state courts. Is SCOTUS preparing to toss Trump’s fate back to a divided partisan Congress?
SCOTUS shouldn’t and must not ignore the importance of Colorado’s case for democracy. Or render a decision contrary to the intent of Section 3. SCOTUS didn’t shy away from cementing Bush’s presidential victory in 2000. They didn’t express concerns about a revolt or states succeeding from the Union.
Just imagine the dread, if SCOTUS “turned a blind eye” to Black children attending segregated schools, having to ride in the back of public transportation vehicles, and dying like Charles R. Drew because white only hospital legally refused to provide medical care. If SCOTUS refused to rule because any one of these cases would’ve had national ramifications or angered America’s white supremacists, the nation’s moral compass would hang from SCOTUS like a dead albatross.
When Chief Justice Roberts and his justices gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 of Section 5, a major achievement of the civil rights movement, there wasn’t any hesitation or concern regarding ramifications for Black voters. Immediately after this draconian legislative decision, states once subjected to this preclearance provision, passed countless oppressive voting legislations.
If SCOTUS is afraid, partisan, imbued with heartfelt confederate leniency or just downright racism, Congress should dissolve it. This Court has even proven that it lacks the integrity to govern itself, and to set as well as abide by a strict code of ethics. Justice Thomas refuses to recuse himself from Trump’s case before the Court, even though his wife helped lead the “Stop the steal” campaign of the 2020 presidential election.
America’s democracy finds itself marred in a political dilemma. One that’s a trilogy involving the US Constitution, a State’s Supreme Court, and SCOTUS. Again, SCOTUS is bound to, or should, follow the US Constitution in resolving cases it agrees to hear absent political partisanship and a white supremacy ideology. Is Trump not the Republican Party’s and MAGA supporters’ great “white hope?”
Remember, the Roman Senate gave Ceasar everything that he wanted. Yet, he still turned on them. He increased the Senators from 600 to approximately 900. He instituted new rules limiting their powers; thus, rendering the Senate powerless sycophants. Since the Roman Senators didn’t have a Supreme Court to protect their “republic,” they took matters into their own hands. Trump already boast about packing this Court to do his biddings. As a dictator, he won’t need SCOTUS.
YOU BE THE JUDGE!
