A Teaser for Tomorrow

I am working on an article connecting the current Supreme Court decisions against Civil and Voting Rights to past Courts. It’s really nothing new. Roger Taney and Joseph Bradley have nothing on John Roberts, and they were experts in contorting the Constitution to support the worst travesties of Justice in American history.

James Spader as Alan Shore next to William Shatner as Denny Crane

I remember a great line from James Spader playing thee er miscreant and funny attorney Alan Shore in Boston Legal saying:

“Last night I went to bed with a book, not nearly as much fun as a 29 year old, but the book contained a speech by Adlai Stevenson. The year was 1952, he said 'The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the cloak of anti-Communism.' Today, it's the cloak of anti-Terrorism. Stevenson also remarked that it's far easier to fight for principles than to live up to them. I know we are all afraid, but the Bill of Rights, we have to live up to that, we simply must.”

We live in that type of climate of fear today, in large part because the Supreme Court of the United States is completely compromised by political and financial interests again the very liberties laid down in the Constitution and its subsequent Amendments. The Roberts majority, John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and the perky Amy Coney Barrett have turned the Constitution on its head to reestablish the kind of judicial tyranny practiced by the most racist and undemocratic Supreme Courts in American history.

It will be up tomorrow. I can only say, damn them all, and please watch your collective sixes.