Blogpost # M. 71 BRIGHT DAYLIGHT ON DIRTY LINEN

In contrast to the two branches of our tri-partite Democratic Republic, Executive and Legislative, members of which are elected by the people, the Justices of the third, Judicial branch, (the Supreme Court of The United States, “SCOTUS”) are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, (Art. 3 U.S. Constitution). Article 3 also gives Congress discretion to determine the shape and structure of the Federal Judiciary.
In the immediately preceding writing (# M. 70 “WELCOME TO CAMELOT”) we ventured to offer our conception of the etiology and empirical persistence of the foul, toxic pestilence currently infecting our body politic with the insidious and virulent virus of anti-democratic, fascist pathology. Clinically hazardous symptoms of its ubiquitous metastasis are palpably evident; yet most impactful of all, is its morbid impact upon the historically revered and existentially important, highest judicial branch of government, The U.S. Supreme Court.
As conjectured in the previous writing, the steep decline in fiduciary responsibility of our highest court may have had its advent in the legally consequential case of Bush v. Gore (2000). In that eventful case, SCOTUS inexplicably, chose to accept for deliberation a matter containing political issues; in violation of the constitution’s strictures regarding the “Separation of Powers.” This singular event seemed to encourage the opening of the floodgates to political and religious lobbies desiring to exert their monied influence upon receptive Justices. Such body blows to the ethnos of our vaunted democratic, resulted in a veritable dumpster of undemocratic decisions, best exemplified by catering to the religious lobby in the authoritarian reversal of long- established precedent in rendering illegal the right of abortion, resulting in a never-ending nightmare of tragic and dangerous outcomes. A comparative catering to a self-interested, political lobby, was demonstrated by the SCOTUS’ outrageous decision, removing restrictions on campaign contributions, thus distorting and minimizing the impact of the public vote.
The mainstream citizen’s shock and distain for the serious erosion of moral and judicial principle on the part of the Nation’s formerly venerated highest Court, was catalyzed and further exacerbated by alarming public revelations of morally revolting corruption on the part of certain Justices of the Supreme Court, viz., Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito.
Justice Thomas has been revealed to have shamelessly and illegally, accepted large quantities of cash and other expensive emoluments from an identified billionaire, interested in specific adjudications. Thomas is also married to a politically influential wife who is a Trumpian election denier and an influential supporter of MAGA’s authoritarian attack on American democracy.
Justice Alito, the avatar of unconstitutional homage to the religious lobby and newly disclosed supporter of the White Christian Nationalist Movement, was the trademark author of the opinion in the Dodd case, which overturned one half century of SCOTUS precedent in Roe v. Wade, decreeing the illegality of a woman’s private right to abortion. Such immoral and unprofessional catering to the religious lobby, in addition to having offended the historic theme and dynamics of the constitution in protecting citizen rights from incursion by government has, by its authoritarian ruling proximately led to an uncountable record of misery, tragedy and death.
It has lately been disclosed and irrefutably proven, by widely disseminated photographs taken by the National media, that Justice Samuel A. Alito is a proud and demonstrative supporter of White Christian Nationalism by his proud and audacious choice to fly flags, emblematic of his zealous support for that un-American and authoritarian (Nazi-like) movement; and by natural extension for Trump’s fascistic January sixth insurrection. Such advertised anti-democratic sentiment was underscored by such obnoxious flags being publicly flown on flagpoles on both of his properties.
Well-intentioned suggestions that these two morally tainted Justices be recused from participation in relevant cases, in our view, are not sufficient or prudently appropriate. It would seem to be existentially appropriate, ‘y in these exceptionally troubling and equivocal times that these morally tarnished, purported guardians of our Democratic Republic, be instructively and summarily impeached and removed from office by Congress and deprived of financial and other benefits of office.
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