The Skeeter Daddle Diaries

“My goal today is to convince you that this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks,” said Justice Barrett in a speech at the Mitch McConnell Center in Kentucky last winter. Oh boy, that was before the leaked Roe v Wade draft that would overturn 50 years of precedent, something most Justices declared would be settled law. After the leak whatever trust folks had in the non-partisan court was pretty much shredded. Can you spell Dred Scott?

At this point in American history, at least the one we’re still allowed to teach without the stuff that might make students feel uncomfortable with, you know, native genocide, Japanese forced incarceration, slavery, KKK, lynchings, minor embarrassments like that, the last institution of capitol D democracy was the Supreme Court. Above the fray, unbiased judicial readings of the law, considered opinions unclouded by partisan politics, right? Right?

The Court was made a political pawn when McConnell refused to consider Obama’s nominee Merrick Garland because it was too close to the presidential election. The Democrats rolled over for this, always the pillow fighters in a political knife fight, but when Barrett was rammed through just prior to the next presidential election, well, it doesn’t take a Philadelphia lawyer to understand what court packing is all about. McConnell is a liar and a hypocrite, but then, all’s fair in love, war and politics, I guess.

So, Amy, to answer your assertion you made in a very partisan setting that the Court is not a bunch of partisan hacks, c’mon, who’s going to believe that now? You folks sold us a used car without the brakes and the wheels about to come off. Nice work if you can get it.

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