LISTENING TO THE video The False White Gospel: Rejecting Christian Nationalism, hearing Jim Wallis talking about how Trumpists, Republican-fascists encouraged by Steve Bannon and others to park trucks with America's swastika, the Confederate Flag full or guns next to polling places, near predominantly Black Schools, etc. Hearing him talk about how officials managing polling sites have to be concerned about armed attacks ON OUR POLLING PLACES, it occurred to me that the very real, very violent, terrorism conducted by almost exclusively white, Republican-fascists is of absolutely no concern to our elites, certainly not the legacy and corporate media, certainly not the goddamned Supreme Court which has aided in arming these terrorists with full knowledge that that was what they were doing.
America's elites, white, wealthy, owners of most everything have been setting us up to be terrorized by their white-supremacist gangs for the past fifty years and the goddamned free press have been largely all-in on the effort.
It is insane that we are putting up with the courts and, especially the Supreme Court doing this in full view for as long as they have been striking down laws to reign in the weapons that are an intrinsic part of this terror. If the goddamned Supreme Court members and their staff had to experience WHAT THEY PERMIT SCHOOL CHILDREN AND POLL WORKERS TO EXPERIENCE it might make some difference. Short of that, the Congress, if it is not in the hands of the goddamned Republican-fascists have to remove the protections that shield the "justices" from the results of their decisions and those they allow to stand through the shadow docket.
It is, in some ways, just an extension of the terrorism that has been used to suppress Black People, other People of Color and others for our entire history, that has been the legalized practice under slavery then Jim Crow and under the Roberts Court revival of Jim Crow in which white supremacists steal the representation of People of Color just as was embedded into the Constitution under the infamous 3/5ths rule that the end of legal slavery enhanced into a theft of 5/5ths of the representation enumerated but stolen from those they prevent from voting and having representation.
If Kamala Harris becomes president, if she gets a Democratic Congress she has her work cut out for her. One is getting several Amendments overturning the outrageous decisions of the Roberts Court, overturning Women's ownership of their bodies, making a Republican-fascist president a dictator (you can be certain if Biden or Harris exercised the power they gave Trump, that would be different), outrageously legalizing the post-facto payment of bribes - something that you'd expect the most corrupt of banana republic Courts to do - but one of the most important ones is to disarm the legions of white-supremacist thugs and fanatics before they become the invisible army of white supremacy that I have ever reason to believe that everyone from the perfumed, manicured John Roberts down to the most white supremacist "justice" in modern history, Clarence Thomas, fantasizes preventing equality and democracy from coming into effect.
If they are not under criminal investigation right now, Roberts, Alito and Thomas should be, as should the spouses of Roberts and Thomas. If Democrats have control of both or either house they should subpoena the tax records of all five of them to make sure they have not been cheating on their taxes and if they have they should be prosecuted. Including the "justices". Kavanaugh's past and whether he lied under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee should also be investigated and if he did he should be prosecuted. I don't think anyone should worry about discrediting the Court, it's done that job already.
I will mention the ACLU because they have played as big a role as any outside group in creating this situation through their "free speech" and other positions which have brought us to where we are. I've gone into that at length here. I could mention other lawyers groups and the lawyering-liaring profession in general. I have some reservations about Kamala Harris because she was educated into the culture of the law and might have a hard time imagining something as unconventional as a president who, like Abraham Lincoln, rejected the Supreme Courts usurpation of power under Marbury v. Madison, the basis of the Dred Scott decision and a whole volume of other judicial outrages. I think it's well past time that the Presidency and Congress declared that Court usurpation null and void and they cut the Court down to the size they have in more secure democracies. I heard that the wonderful Fran Lebowitz suggested that President Biden dissolve the Court with the imperial powers that the Roberts Court invented for the most criminal of modern American presidents. I don't think he'd need to go that far but declaring Marbury v Madison illegal would do the same thing, along with those criminal investigations and prosecutions mentioned above. The Supreme Court being cut down to size is one of the things that is essential because the fascist Roberts Court will nullify any attempt to clean up our country as the goddamned Court did with the campaign fiance reform laws passed after the Nixon crime spree became public. I think if Kamala Harris becomes president she should demand those Constitutional Amendments ending Roberts' legalized corruption, their nationalization of Women's bodies, turning the president into a dictator be adopted or she will exercise the powers that the Court gave Trump. It will be the only way she'd get it past enough Republican-fascist controlled state legislatures to overcome the goddamned Roberts Court white supremacist fascists. Short of that, court packing will be necessary as will be imposing term limits - send them back to riding the circuit after a reasonable term. Something has to be done and with the out of control Court it will have to be drastic. We can't allow the Courts to have the kind of power they have assumed on their own.
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