SO TRUMP DID WHAT anyone would have known he would do, he turned to the courts to act as his roadblock to the release of documents related to the attempted putsch of January 6th.
We will now see if the Courts, judges, and "justices" will do what Trump has every reason to expect them to do for him, protect him from the consequences of one of the most serious crimes against democracy ever committed by someone holding the office of the presidency.
There is every reason to believe that judges and "justices" will do that for him because he is a. rich, b. white, c. male, d. a Republican-fascist.
It is a shame that the panel President Biden appointed to look into the blatantly political (Republican-fascist) and oligarchic Supreme Court and how to make it less corrupt and oligarchy enabling was doomed to failure by it being composed largely if not wholly of connected and elite lawyers. What is needed isn't their kind of common received wisdom, that kind of passed on legalistic lore is borne of and gives birth to the very same corruption that is on such blatant display. There is every reason for someone like Trump to believe they will protect him BECAUSE THAT'S HIS LIFE LONG EXPERIENCE WITH THE COURTS AND HOW RICH PEOPLE CAN USE THEM AS THEIR TOOL AND THEIR SHIELD FROM THE LAW, THE BETTER TO ENABLE THEIR CRIMES.
The corruption of the American legal system is embedded in it, some from the Constitution, itself, some from the privileges granted to the Supreme Court by their own fiat. I am certain that the work habits of judges and "justices" the leisure they grant themselves, the work avoidance of them, the profitable pace of work and billing among lawyers has been a boon to the rich and criminal, like Trump. The legal profession is, top to bottom, founded on genteel graft and grift, including the Supreme Court, the rare revelations of who the "justices" socialize with, hob-knob with, get benefits from, including those who have had or can be expected to have business before the Court should be a scandal as big as any of the real or ginned up scandals of the House of Representatives - or, rather, those which used to be splashed tabloid style across the "news" when Democrats had solid control of the Congress. And, as the great Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has exposed, a lot of the benefits and pay-offs to the members of the Supreme Court on the conservative side come before any of them are confirmed to that court, being put on the court with the help of billionaire money is the first guarantee of a bought and corrupt court.
The courts, from lower to Supreme Court will act as a road block as Trump tries to run out the clock on this Congress in hopes that a Republican House will do what the Senate in Republican-fascist hands will, protect him and his gang of fascist thugs. They will do it knowingly, even the ones who might not be expected to side with Trump because that is the practice of the legal and the judicial professions. They protect the rich, the white, the male and the political gangster class. They are part of it and know its customs and ruses and they know that's how you get ahead. There was every reason to believe that a presidential commission for its reform would flop if it was comprised of such people.
Stephen Breyer, joining the Republican-fascists on the Court in trying to head off any reform of the corrupt Court he sits on as a "liberal" and as he is preparing to join the late Ruth Bader Ginsberg as enabling another fascist to be appointed by dying on the bench should represent the last illusion of the cloying public relations presentation of that Court. Its history, from the power grab of John Marshall, through his and the other slave-holding "justices" repeated protection of and profit enhancement of that evil institution right up to John Roberts' destroying the Voting Rights Act is among the vilest in the annals of governmental corruption in the United States. Its members should not be treated with the courtly reverence that they routinely and customarily are. For him to deny that that court is already thoroughly political and the enabler of gangsters as he is counted as one of its three remaining "liberals" is among the more disgusting spectacles of this year. Finding out that the legendary RBG was good buddies with one of the worst of the "justices," as he was doing everything he could to enable gangsters and fascists, to kill people who were innocent, chuckling about painful execution methods, . . . was the last shattering of that illusion for me. It left me disappointed in her but hardly crushed because reading the real history of that court had prepared me for it. Breyer is earning himself a place in history, one he might not want to have, assuming he cares about posterity at all, which he doesn't seem to.
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