having made the decision early in doing this that I didn't want that kind of thing to influence what I say. And other than a few self-identified and long time commentators, I don't have any idea who it is who reads it, though I get anywhere from dozens to hundreds of hits on the various things I post. Who they are I generally have no clue of. I do know that generally they're not the rump of those who still frequent the baby blue blog I used to hang on. They don't much read anything.
I don't think that "justice" Samuel Alito somehow got wind that there is an elderly piano teacher in Southern interior Maine who is calling for the Congress to annul the extra-constitutional, court created and anti-democratic Marbury power which the Court has used to do some of the most evil things the U.S. Government has done during the three centuries we've supposedly been living under the Constitution.
Nor do I think he knows that I've encouraged a Democratic Congress working with a Democratic President to end that Court created power for the Court to exercise both legislative and presidential powers, nullifying and amending duly adopted laws of Congress, signed by presidents, confirmed by previous courts but to go so far as to do the same with parts of actual articles in the Constitution - most infamously the 14th Amendment. And to do so, not relying on Constitutional amendements to do it but merely by refusing to go along with that centuries long lie. The Court couldn't nullify such a decision.
And I've also pointed out that in the 21st century such habits that have developed under the tyranny of the fewer than a dozen, generally right-wing lawyers in black robes they have become so bold as for the Court to decide presidential elections, installing a member of the majority of the Court's political party in the office and, in the ultimate exercise of such outrageously usurped power, nullifying the republican form of government under the Roberts Court's Trump v USA decision, putting that Court in opposition to the American form of government. The Roberts Court is, in truth, the enemy of America as a democracy and certainly as an egalitarian democracy, the members of their majority from the odious Clarece Thomas right down to lil' Ms Coney Barrett. And I absolutely do mean that. Their following on the putrid Waite Court in nullifying the second Voting Rights Act proves that beyond any doubt.
Nor do I think that Alito noticed or was informed that I have, for months, now, been calling on the Congress to zero out the Court's budget except for their Constitutionally guaranteed salaries - which, by the way, should not be raised in any way, including any health care and other benefits they get certainly not until universal healthcare is guaranteed to all Americans. NO MEMBER OF ANY BRANCH OF THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD HAVE GUARANTEED HEALTHCARE THAT IS UNAVAILABLE TO THE MOST HUMBLE OF THEIR MASTERS, US!
I doubt he knows that before he gave his panicked speech to the fascist society he and his colleagues spring from that I have noted that the Congress could do what I called for, depriving them of their Ivy League law grad clerks and other perks and that the Congress should zero out the budget for their fascist-marble palace and turn it to some legitimate use as a homeless shelter or for a jail for those who refuse to submit to the Constitutionally mandated oversight by the Congress of both the Executive and the Court by giving true testimony and producing subpoenaed information to the Congress. I doubt he knows that I have advocated stripping them of the vulgar and obscene majesty erected by the corrupt puzzlewit* Taft and assigning them to meet in a small meeting room with room enough for folding tables and chairs for the nine of them, others for the lawyers arguing in front of them and a place where a stenographer could make a transcript of the proceedings.
I am unaware of anyone else doing that in the past six months, or, really, ever before, but I doubt that's where he got the theme of his whiny, panicked speech to his fellow fascists WHO I HAVE ALSO CALLED TO BE HAULED BEFORE THE CONGRESS TO REVEAL THE EXTENT OF THEIR COLLUSION IN THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AND JAILED BY THE CONGRESS IF THEY REFUSE.
But if I'm wrong and that's what set the lying asshole off, I'm not upset by the idea.
* President Theodore Roosevelt said Chief "justice" Taft was a
"puzzlewit" and that he had fewer brains than a guinea pig. But, then, Taft didn't cite a late medieval English judge who sentenced Women to be burned as witches in order to strip American Women of their bodily autonomy. Perhaps if they'd already been deprived of those Ivy League clerks, the idiot Alito would have spared himself from that particular infamy.
I think Alito knew Congress could always do that. The building they are in, after all, has been around less than half the time the Court has. But after the midterms, he realized his string has played out, and he’s on borrowed time.
ReplyDeleteFrankly, I hope that keeps him up nights, though I don’t count on it.
The current Supreme Court actually dates back to the Judges Act if 1925, which gave it much of the appellate review authority it has now. Alito knows more than that can change. The Justices could even be forced to ride circuits again (that was abolished in 1911. The Court itself was established by statute in 1789.) The Court has always been fundamentally subordinate to Congress. Alito knows that, too.
If Congress zeroed out the budget apart from their salaries, i would keep him up nights. I'm hoping that Alito was stupid enough to put the fact that they could in the news might lead some of them to start thinking of doing just that. Though, as I've said, I think the lawyers in Congress would get the vapors and say "mercy me!" they couldn't possibly do it.
DeleteThe Court has been out or control since 1857, it's high time for Congress to exercise control over it.