The Roberts Court Is Already Setting Up To Interfere With The 2026 Election

I SUPPOSE I SHOULD LODGE an official complaint that Michael Popok identifies the Republican-fascists who brought entirely make believe the pray-the-gay-away case to the Supreme Court as "Christians" when they aren't,  they're Repulican-fascists pretending to be Christians,  but I'll let that go for now.   

(Internal Update:  Actually,  I didn't.)

I will point out that the opportunities for the fascists on the Court to find "First Amendment" issues in such stuff is a consequence of the absurd lengths to which the Warren Court opened up the "meaning of speech" in some of what is mistaken to be its landmark rulings in "civil liberties" and the fascists have weaponized what I'm coming to think of as "the First Amendment fetish" to promote everything up to and including its open attacks on LGBTQ+ lives and rights.   In the past when I criticized some of those rulings over such monumental issues as to whether or not local laws requiring strippers to wear pasties was a violation of their "free speech" someone would inevitably bring up the federal government using anti-porn laws to target gay and lesbian political publications.   Well, hows that workin' for us these days?   Do you think that the Robert's fascist gang won't eventually coming up with lawyerly-lies to reimpose that with their use of the Warren era "speech" definition in tact to legalize not only discrimination against us but oppressive "treatments" of LGBTQ+ minors (that's minors in this case, they'll eventually come up with the kind of lawyer-lies to extend that to adults, too).   I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't set the clock back to the time when states mandated castration if not capital punishment for same-sex-sex.   I'd suggest to Michael Popok that he read Pope Leo's first Apostolic Exhortation,  Dilexi te,  you don't have to get past the first three paragraphs to see that neither the Roberts-six nor those bringing the case are anything like followers of Jesus.  

1. “I HAVE LOVED YOU” (Rev 3:9). The Lord speaks these words to a Christian community that, unlike some others, had no influence or resources, and was treated instead with violence and contempt: “You have but little power… I will make them come and bow down before your feet” (Rev 3:8-9). This text reminds us of the words of the canticle of Mary: “He has cast down the mighty from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly; he has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty” (Lk 1:52-53).

2. This declaration of love, taken from the Book of Revelation, reflects the inexhaustible mystery that Pope Francis reflected upon in the Encyclical Dilexit Nos on the human and divine love of the heart of Jesus Christ. There we saw how Jesus identified himself “with the lowest ranks of society” and how, with his love poured out to the end, he confirms the dignity of every human being, especially when “they are weak, scorned, or suffering.” [1] As we contemplate Christ’s love, “we too are inspired to be more attentive to the sufferings and needs of others, and confirmed in our efforts to share in his work of liberation as instruments for the spread of his love.” [2]

3. For this reason, in continuity with the Encyclical Dilexit Nos, Pope Francis was preparing in the last months of his life an Apostolic Exhortation on the Church’s care for the poor, to which he gave the title Dilexi Te, as if Christ speaks those words to each of them, saying: “You have but little power,” yet “I have loved you” ( Rev 3:9). I am happy to make this document my own — adding some reflections — and to issue it at the beginning of my own pontificate, since I share the desire of my beloved predecessor that all Christians come to appreciate the close connection between Christ’s love and his summons to care for the poor. I too consider it essential to insist on this path to holiness, for “in this call to recognize him in the poor and the suffering, we see revealed the very heart of Christ, his deepest feelings and choices, which every saint seeks to imitate.” [3]

You know those who the Roberts-six said cities and towns could harry out of their district and make it illegal to give them even food.  The Republican-fascists fail the test of Christian identity just about in every way they opine on, on the court and in legislatures and executive offices.   They are not Christians in anything but their claims and as they are pretty near uniform liars, there's every reason to not let that claim go unchallenged. 

I've looked at Supreme Court decisions and dissents and have to say that I think the modern standard of Papal theology is done at such a higher level of honesty and integrity that there's no comparison with the lawyerly lying that governs our secular "civic religion" to put it the putrid way that the corrupt Sandra Day O'Connor called it. 

But the even more generally dangerous case that proves my contention that the Roberts Court is actively meddling in the 2026 election,  not only putting a finger on the scale in favor of their party,  the Republican fascists, but six heavy fists is one trying to limit the use of means of making it easier to case A LEGITIMATE VOTE AND HAVE IT COUNTED on behalf of Republican-fascist losers for whom counting the ballots marked on or before Election day but delivered in the Trumpzi-damaged postal service would have made no difference in the outcome.  In this argument in the video,  I come down on the same side as Popok,  even more heavily than he is that the Roberts gang is intent on ratfucking the 2026 election in the same way Roberts, Kavanaugh, Barrett and Thomas did in 2000 to hand an election to those of their own party.   I'll recommend listening to the discussion.