This post is an outline of the threat. The broad topic: the DOCUMENTED threat to American democracy and society by elements of the Far Right. What happened, is happening, wasn’t “natural.” It was, is ORCHESTRATED by the combined money and resources of Far Right groups.

Some will automatically dismiss this as “liberal propaganda.” WRONG!!! This series will explore DOCUMENTED events and rhetoric by elements of the Far Right. In future posts, these Far Right people will often be identified by “R W s.”

A major part of the r W campaign has been to instill FEAR – through conspiracy theories, blatant FALSEHOODS, insisting 2plus 2 equals 5, twisting real facts.
Sadly, it is elements of the Far Right that have produced the suffering by the lower 90% that other Far Right elements use to “prove” their LIES. The first, greatest, LIE is that they’re “conservatives.” In reality, they’re reactionaries and authoritarians, some are fascists.

Topics pursued:
1] The January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol and Congress was NOT THE FIRST SUCH PLOT. The first was the July-November, 1933 R W plot. Details revealed in McCormack-Dickstein Committee hearings begun in November, 1934; final report February 15, 1935. The hero was retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler.

2] America truly became a “democracy” post 1901. The “Progressive Era,” itself a popular revolt against the 1865-1900 corruption by R W elements, began reforms. The reforms of 1933-1965 completed much of that first effort. Many of those reforms have been attacked by R W elements ever since.

3]. AIDING THE NAZIS. “American” businesses aided the Nazis from their beginnings, during, and past /world War II. DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE. Domestic groups opposed “getting involved” against fascist aggressions of the 1930s-1940s right up to Noon, Sunday, December 7, 1941.

4] Far Right elements used U.S. government power to investigate, persecute, prosecute INNOCENT American citizens “suspected” of being “communists” and “communist dupes” in the 1940s and 1950s. Lives and careers were ruined for political gain.

5] WEAPONIZING RELIGION. From the 1930s through 2023, R W elements have WEAPONIZED RELIGION. R W elements confessed they see, ARE conducting a “religious war” against the rest of America. One political party has largely been taken over by R W zealots, insisting THEIR religious dogma be made law, an absolute and total VIOLATION OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT.

6]. CORRUPTION OF THE SUREME COURT AND THE LAW. Since 1969, the Republican Party has made a DOCUMENTED goal of weaponizing the Supreme court to undo ALL post-1901 reforms they don’t like. The “court,’ especially post-2005, issued numerous decisions VIOLATING basic American principles and Constitution – virtually all servicing various R W constituencies of the Republican Party.

7]. Corporate “America” has revolted against the 1947-1973 middle class STATISTICAL golden age. Sharing America’s wealth with the lower 90% “too good a deal” for “undeserving” ordinary Americans. Ceos and other corporate/financial “geniuses” believed they “earned their wealth all by themselves,” owed nothing to America. They declared war on labor and consumers. They outsourced jobs and knowledge anywhere to avoid wages, taxes, regulations, even to a dictatorship that is America’s and the world’s #1 threat: China.

8] CRIMINAL PRESIDENCIES. Nixon, Reagan, Bush II, Trump presidencies are among THE MOST CRIMINAL in American history. DOCUMENTED by criminal indictments, guilty verdicts, prison sentences. DOCUMENTED by damage inflicted on American people, society, economy, government, law. Do the research!!!

9]. DISINFORMATION. The latest “Fox News” scandal is just one more, should convince reasonable Americans what studies have shown for 20 years: “Fox News” is a propaganda operation. Big heroes on the Far Right DOCUMENTED having told major lies – “throwing red meat” to willing listeners – and making $5-l0-30 million annually. America is “divided” because R W forces want that, make money on that, achieve goals on that. R Ws NEED “enemies.”

10]. ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE. R-Ws have built an alternative universe of their own schools and colleges, media, industry, law, churches, even communities. Convinced they are being unjustly “persecuted” for their faith and beliefs, they have walled themselves off psychologically and physically.

11]. CORRUPTION OF THE TAX CODE. R-W elements have succeeded corrupting American taxes at both state and federal levels. The “business” community writes, finances, owns tax codes. It’s a MAJOR factor in post-1973 impoverishment of the lower 90%. Taxes on millionaires and corporations radically cut. DOCUMENTED evidence in pre-1979 and post-1979 tax codes, tax burdens, tax avoidance.

12]. FALSE HISTORY. R-W elements are rewriting American history so it “proves” what they want YOU to think and believe; so YOU’LL support their perverted version of 1600-2023 events. Some specialize in writing bogus “history” books. Others make careers lying about what Founding Generations thought, said, wrote, put into state and federal constitutions. They want to control the past so they can control YOUR future.

13] SABOTAGING CONGRESS AND GOVERNMENT. Congress once worked on a bipartisan basis. From 1994 election forward, beginning with the “Gingrich Revolution,” R-W elements steadily sabotaged Congress so it can’t work. Congressional budgets and staff slashed – making Congress dependent on outside sources. Observe yourself Republican comic book characters in the last 30 years!!!

14]. NATIONAL DEBT. When Reagan took office in 1981, the U.S. national debt for 1789-1980 was LESS THAN $1 TRILLION. He tripled i; Bush II added several trillions; Trump’s 2017 tax cut was passed KNOWING IT WOULD ADD TO DEBT. Democrats added debt – cleaning up inherited Republican messes. CBO projections: 2023 debt interest – $640 billion; 2023-2033 debt interest about $10.5 trillion – money wasted, YOUR taxes increased.

15]. SOCIAL SECURITY and MEDICARE. Nothing better illustrates CRUELTY and CORRUPTION of the Far Right than their attacks on, demonization of, attempts to “privatize” Social Security and Medicare, efforts to switch the narrative from TRUE cause and solution: refusal of rich to share wealth with “undeserving” lower 90% – to a manufactured “crisis”; insisting that ONLY cuts in Social Security and Medicare benefits are required. Known for 40 years: the obvious and simple solution: remove the “cap” on earnings taxed for Social Security and Medicare.

In doing YOUR own research, you’ll soon discover R-W patterns” cruelty, corruption, arrogance, condescension, even hatred – for those not like them. The rich insisting they earned wealth “all by themselves,” owe nothing to YOU. Corporations insist on “market based solutions,” demanding government “get out of the way” – no matter the cost. “Religious Right” zealots insist THEY ALONE know “truth;” insist they be allowed special privileged status because of their faith. R-W legal activists insist America return to 1789 for ALL understandings of the Constitution, as if nothing happened since 1789; THEY ALONE “know” the Founders’ “original intent”!!! R-W “echo chamber” of “news” and “information” insists THEY ALONE tell Americans what is and has happened. They’ve produced a BIG LIE machine the Nazis would envy, supplying the LIES dividing America.

All of this, and much, much, more – why the Far Right is a THREAT TO AMERICA in every conceivable way. The saddest part: they’ve convinced so many good Americans their massive LIES and sabotage of government are correct.

As always – do YOUR own research [OK to begin on the I-net; use documents not doctored]. Realize that people, especially Founders said different things at different times – CONTEXT matters. What is the overall PATTERN ? How are basic American principles from the Declaration and Constitution, Amendments discussed?

then you’ll get to where I am. I didn’t grow up “hating” the Far Right. I learned about what they’d, we’re doing – how it compared to American principles, words of Lincoln and Dr. King, what life was like in 1947-73, how it compared to common decency and caring for others. THE DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE – in so many ways: the Far Right is. THE group that “hates” America. The Far Right wants to build its own version of “America” – one the American public votes against, says in poll after poll it doesn’t want.

The Far Right doesn’t care about YOU. They’re on a “sacred mission” to “correct our sins and save America>”. If they can’t “reason” [lie] with you – then force will be necessary. Some of that force illustrated by Roberts “court” decisions; some by corporations” treatment of workers, taxpayers, customers; by armed men marching to intimidate opponents; by murders and blowing up buildings; by January 6, 2021.
For people on a ‘sacred mission” – the End justifies ANY means.

I entered her presence when we both worked at a grocery store. She was tall for a girl, model’s face and figure; with a delightful manner and voice. She was a beautiful person inside and out. She always seemed to “be up.” I never saw her angry, even when a certain aggressive stock boy had her pinned against the wall in the back of the store – she laughed at him. She went to a private girl’s school. One of her friends from that school worked with her at the store.

It was in the middle of the great middle class prosperity of 1947-1973. It was also in the last days of American innocence. Before JFK was shot. Before Vietnam. Before street riots. Before Watergate.
The fabled 1950s-1960s teen culture was in full force. Rock-n-roll was the music. The King and Chuck Berry were alive and singing. Some of us were active participants; others were witnesses. “West Side Story” could be seen. James Bond would soon be launched.

Our grocery store was full of characters. One manager smoked truly AWFUL cigars. You could always tell he’d been there by the floating foul cloud of smoke. Another manager was more excitable, especially when customers accumulated in lines at registers. It sometimes seemed he had a heart attack once a month – out a few days, then back again.

Most of the adults worked around the fringes – in the meat department and produce. the meat men were “not feeling any pain!!!’ We definitely had characters among the flying knives of the produce department. One was the store’s union steward. If you were stocking a shelf, he had a habit of coming up behind you and “checking your oil.” But you couldn’t get mad at him, because he was this maybe 5 foot tall Jewish Leprechaun, with a big grin on his face.

Even though it was a serious, low-profit margin business, we had a general sense of good humor. Part of it had to be the owner. He was a “rich” man, but lived in the community like a normal person. You were teated with respect until you proved you didn’t deserve it. Which probably explains why when he died, it seemed like half the community turned out for his memorial. You stood in the longest, slowest moving line I was ever in for a few words with his widow and kids, two of whom had worked at the store.

Above all this, SHE floated along. Always friendly with a smile. Beautiful without really trying all that hard to be so, efficiently doing her cashier’s job. Reportedly, her boyfriend also worked at the store for a while. One day, I accused them of ‘holding hands’ in a meat bag. She laughed that off too.

One day, a few of us made a pilgrimage to her house. the bolder guy in the group took a peak at a hanging bathing suit near her closet. He eagerly informed us it was a size “X.”

Then one day – She was gone. I was told her lifetime ambition was to be a nun. Some 30 years later I was informed by a person who knew her that she still was a nun. One of my regrets is that I did not pursue finding out more about her.

I”m sure most of us with more earthly thinking thought the same thing: what a waste. How cruel that a woman of this beauty, grace, and maturity was to be cloistered off. It didn’t seem to be “fair.” Why would the community be denied being able to interact with her more?

So, she became a reverse “Maria,” of whom the convent’s nuns worried “How do you solve a problem like Maria?, and “How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?” Our nun certainly wasn’t a “problem<“. but she was a “moonbeam.”

One, if fortunate, will meet memorable people. SHE was one of those, even though only in limited circumstances at a grocery store. Character gets demonstrated in many ways. SHE was one person with a sacred dream who actually followed through on it – committing herself to a life of service to others.

A THREAT. TO. DEMOCRACY., perhaps THE THREAT. Why can MANY observers say that? Consider the following tests. Has the Roberts “court” honored “all Men are created equal” and “unalienable Rights [of[ Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”? Has it honored the Constitution’s REQUIREMENTS to “form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility..promote the general Welfare”? Has it honored the REQUIREMENTS of the Amendments, most especially “The Bill of Rights”? Has the Roberts “court” done anything to remedy the Founders’ 4 major fears: corruption, slavery, religion, mobs – or – has it made the problems WORSE? Has the Roberts “court” in any way helped quality of life? Responses to these questions answer is the Roberts “court” a THREAT to American democracy?

*** A 1997 book, “A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law,” argued that judicial power is dangerous to our democracy if left unchecked. The author: Antonin Scalia.

1] “Supreme Inequality,” Adam Cohen
– “The past fifty years of conservative rulings from the Supreme Court have coincided almost exactly with a period in which economic inequality in the United States has soared to near-historic levels..made extreme educational inequality inevitable…The Court’s campaign finance decisions..are a major reason tax policy is so slanted in favor of the rich…weakening labor unions, it has driven down worker’s wages…making it harder to sue corporations…also contributed to dismantling of the social safety net…life expectancy in the United States declined…tens of millions of Americans are still barely managing to survive…these trends hurt all Americans – because they threaten America itself. Extreme inequality puts democracy at risk.” [Supreme Court rulings ‘THREATEN. AMERICA. ITSELF’]
[perspective: Barlett & Steele’s “The Betrayal of the American Dream”; Hedrick Smith’s “Who Stole the American Dream?”; Wilkinson & Pickett’s “The Spirit Level”: Stiglitz’ “The Price of Inequality”]

*** “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
[Warren Buffett, billionaire investor]

2] a] “Let’s Admit It: The Supreme Court is Corrupt and Clueless”, Jim Hightower, Progressive Populist, 2/l5/23
“There’s nothing supreme about the six-pack of far-right-wing political activists who are presently soiling our people’s ideals of justice by proclaiming their own antidemocratic bias to be the law of the land.”
b]. “The Court’s Third Great Crisis'< Garrett Epps, Washington Monthly, November/December, 2022
“The shadow docket has become a kind of appellate star chamber, resolutely closed to the public or the parties, and aggressively wielded in aid of the Court’s reactionary project..major decisions..were written in terms so broad as to seem an open invitation for conservative advocacy groups seeking to roll back existing precedent in a wide variety of areas..Our Supreme Court is now something akin to the Guardian Council that ensures religious conformity within the “democratic” government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
c] “A Court of First Resort?”, Jamelle Bouie, New York Times, 12/11/22
“According to Mark A. Lemley, a law professor at Stanford, the Roberts court..is an “imperial” Supreme Court, undermining the power and authority of other branches of government, as well as weakening the power of lower courts..It gets its way, he continues, “..by undercutting the ability of an entity to do something the justices don’t like.”

*** “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
James Madison, Federalist #47]

3]a] “High court grants blanket immunity to feds”; Anya Bidwell, Patrick Jaicomo; USA Today; 6/13/22
“The Supreme court just dealt a huge blow to federal police accountability…It held..a Border Patrol agent is entitled to blanket immunity from lawsuit simply because he happens to work for the federal government..Egbert v. Boule means that nearly all [if not all] federal officials are effectively above the law. If they violate your constitutional rights – even intentionally – there is absolutely nothing you can do about it..”
b] “Police Officers Can’t Be Litigated for Miranda Violations, Justices Rule”, Adam Liptak, New York Times, 6/24/22
“Justice Alito acknowledged that Miranda rights had constitutional roots. but he wrote that “a violation of Miranda does not necessarily constitute a violation of the Constitution…”Allowing the victim of a Miranda violation to sue a police officer for damages..would have little additional deterrent value, and permitting such claims would cause many problems.” [when things rooted in the Constitution really aren’t!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
c]. “The conservative Assault on the Constitution”, Erwin Chemerinsky
“For the first time in history, the Court concluded that the exclusionary rule does not apply if the Fourth Amendment is violated in good faith or even negligent police actions..is..a very significant undermining of this protection…Our privacy..is protected by the Fourth Amendment..Without [it], there is nothing to keep the police from stopping and searching any person, or searching anyone’s home, any time they want.” [how far from the Gestapo, NKVD, Stasi. Kempei, “morality police”. – is this???

*** “The makers of our Constitution..conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone – the most
comprehensive of rights, and the most valued by civilized men.” [Justice Brandeis]

4] GUN. TERRORISM
a] “Americans are 25 times more likely to be killed by a gun than people in other nations.” {Gifford PAC] A child is shot in America every minute of every day. “States with the highest gun ownership rates have a gun murder rate 114% higher than those with the lowest.’ [Mother Jones]
b] “Newtown still tries to cope 2 years later”. [Pat Eaton-Robb, Assoc Press, 8/11/19]: Anxiety, depression, guilt, sleeplessness, marital strife, drug and alcohol abuse..the scope of the psychological damage to children, parents and others is becoming clear..agencies have been working to set up a support system for the next 12 to 15 years..”
c] “Rise of bullet-resistant backpacks” [Anne D”Iocenzio, Assoc. Press, 8/11/19}
d]. “Victims face another burden: cost of care”. [Abby Goodnough, New York Times, 4/23/13]; “medical costs for shooting victims average about $50,000..” [an average person’s yearly income]
e] “Not Just A Drill” [Erika Christakis, The Atlantic, March, 2009]; “There’s scant evidence that exercises to prepare students for shootings are effective. They can, however, be psychologically damaging – and they reveal a deeply misguided view of childhood.”
f]. “What’s the Limit on How Much We Can Cry?” {Elizabeth Dias, New York Times, 5/31/22]: “How much value do we place on a single human life?…Violence is an almost normal part of life in the United States..”

*** Roberts “court” responses to all this misery, fear, terror, nightmares, blood, death??? – expanded “gun rights’ – because – “the Second Amendment is in danger of second class status”. – so our[???] “supreme court” twists out of shape, for the first time in 218 years, what the Founders wrote, said, intended [“a well-regulated militia”] into “individual rights” to carry military style weapons anywhere – thus enabling violation of “insure domestic Tranquility”

5]. SEPARATION OF. CHURCH. AND STATE
a]. “If the state controls reproduction”, Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe, 5/11/1989
“As Harvard Law School’s Larry Tribe says, there’s no principled way to say that the government can use women’s bodies against their will to nurture the unborn without accepting the other serious and totalitarian implications about privacy.”..it is worth remembering that if you take away the right of individuals to make decisions about their lives, you cede it to the state.”
b] “When faith trumps politics, danger to the nation emerges”, Lawrence Brown, Cape Cod Times, 7/3/22
“Here’s my problem. Neither the idea of soul – not certainly of ensoulment – can be provided as evidence for our secular law. Citizens can reject..Others can accept..This is precisely what our freedom of religion protects..also what [Dobbs] endangers. [Dobbs] enshrines a faith principle [ensoulment] as a foundation for America’s secular law..It’s also an approach guaranteed to tear our country apart…the fear that in its moment of triumph, a religious minority has seized control of the law. This is where, Jefferson warned us long ago, our troubles begin.”
c]. “The Battle to End Roe Has Changed Democracy”, Mary Ziegler, New York Times, 6/25/22
“The decades-long fight to reverse Roe was..an attempt to change the way American democracy works…in 1992..with six justices nominated by Republicans, the court declined to reverse Roe, explaining that doing so would irrevocably damage its legitimacy. So anti-abortion groups set about to ensure that different kinds of justices would sit on the court…After Casey, some anti-abortion groups expanded their focus: To gin even more control over the Supreme Court nominations, they sought to overhaul the Republican Party and the rules of campaign spending…it’s hard to see the court’s aggressive move t remake constitutional law as anything but antidemocratic.” [perspective: Charles Kimball’s “When Religion Becomes Evil”. – the 5 indications}

*** “If and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] Party, and they’re sure trying to to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me..believe they’re acting in the name of God..” [Barry Goldwater, 1994]
*** “Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty..are called by God to conquer this country. We don’t want equal time..don’t want pluralism.” [Randall Terry]

6]. VOTING
a] “A North Carolina case imperils the U.S. electoral process”, Chicago Tribune, 2/5/23
“…”independent state legislature theory”..has never been sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Now..the court’s conservative justices could make this theory the new standard for American elections. That would prove disastrous for American democracy..would allow state legislatures to thumb their noses at state constitutions..would effectively create a license to gerrymander..it effectively negates the whole concept of checks and balances.”
b] “Courts have their role to play”, New York Daily News, 9/28/22
“If the conservative supermajority embraces the radical “independent state legislature” theory, it will deal a body blow to the integrity of American elections..Our democratic republic already has a hard time taking partisan thumbs off our electoral scales. Remove the courts from the equation, and it would be game over.”
c]”Future of democracy is at stake in N.C. voting case”, Michael Wines, New York Times, 12/7/22
“It is a case “with profound consequences for American democracy,” said J.Michael Luttig, a former federal appeals court judge long time hero to conservatives..what had been a fringe theory known as the independent state legislature doctrine..many in the legal and political establishments see a dangerous subversion of democratic values. Luttig said that, absent changes in federal law governing the counting of electoral votes, an unconstrained legislature might be able to substitute its own slate of presidential electors for the ones the voters had chosen..That would upset centuries of legal tradition.”

*** “It’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.” [Stalin]
*** “There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a
scoundrel.” [Lenin]
*** “It is not the truth that matters, but victory.” [Hitler]
*** “I am the law.” [Frank Hague, mayor of Jersey City, 11/11/1937]
*** “As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?” [“Boss Tweed; November, 1871]

7]. PERSPECTIVE
Before 2000, the consensus “worst” Supreme Court decisions were “Dred Scott,” “Plessy,” and “Korematsu.” these were joined by “Bush v. Gore” of 2000 infamy. The Roberts “court” has the “honor” of producing a steady steam of cases to be added to the above: “Heller,” “Citizens United,” “Shelby County,” “Espinoza,” “Dobbs.” The “independent state legislature” decisions awaits.

8] Return to basic American principles listed. The evidence, a SMALL fraction of the case that the Roberts “court’ is a THREAT TO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY, says they have failed to honor these 1789- values. Opinion you say??? No – the evidence is THEIR OWN WORDS AND DECISIONS. In case after case, the Roberts “court” has FAILED to “form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, promote the general Welfare.”
As Adam Cohen, in “Supreme Inequality,’ stated: the Roberts “court” has FACTUALLY. made life worse for for the average lower 90% person.
This “court’s” TRACK RECORD: big business wins 75% of cases; “conservative’ fundamentalist religions win 90% of their cases. The Roberts “court” is. THE. most “business-friendly’ court since at least 1945. The Roberts “court” giving certain religions all they ask is UNPRECEDENTED. In the process they have created a class of “super citizens” [a category the 1879 Supreme Court refused to allow], who by claiming “sincerely held” beliefs are now A LAW UNTO THEMSELVES” – and. THEY get to define the terms!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A very dangerous and subversive thing in a country supposedly a “democracy” which treats ALL. citizens the same.
And – a country that grants “super citizen” status to SOME PRIVILEGED PEOPLE. – can also declare others [like non-Aryans]. as being sub humans. – but certain religious groups ALREADY. want to do that.

9]. The announced goal of the power behind this “court” and other “conservative’ groups is to create a THEOCRATIC PLUTOCRACY. With Roberts “court’ decisions, those wealthy donors [of “Dark Money”] and religious zealots are moving closer to their goal with every case the universe of “conservative” legal groups can create.

10]. All of this, AND. MCH, MUCH. MORE, is why a variety of legal and constitutional historians and observers have been critical of the Roberts “court.” That criticism is based on one thing: THE RHETORIC AND. TRACK. RECORD. OF THE ROBERTS. ‘court.”
The ice may now have been broken on the restraint critics have shown. One commentator has now crossed the red line: saying the Roberts “court” was “Corrupt And Clueless.”
Other Supreme Courts have been criticized. None before this has been labeled CORRUPT. Which is why, increasingly, the Roberts “court” is seen as “a bunch of political hacks.” Which is why, by both historical and constitutional standards, the Roberts “court” is now rated a THREAT TO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. o

CRUELTY. The HERETIC Roberts “court” has, by its action, inactions, rhetoric, allowed and encouraged cruelty to afflict Americans. Decisions and non-decisions range from”small” to major. Once again, this “court” failed the American people in that it has NOT “insure[d] domestic Tranquility nor promote[d] the general Welfare. Innocent people have been wronged. Americans live in fear. Corruption ravages democracy and the American Dream>

*** “If the misery of others leaves you indifferent and with no feeling of sorrow, then you cannot be called a human being.” [Jimmy Carter]

1] Dictionary definitions of CRUEL: willfully or knowingly causing pain or distress to others. Synonyms: merciless, pitiless, ruthless; cruel implies willingness to cause pain and indifference to suffering; ruthless implies cruelty and unscrupulous, letting nothing stand in one’s way, and using any methods necessary.

*** “Whoever has shown no mercy shall have judgment without mercy.” [James 2: 12-13]

2]. “Ledbetter”. To BEGIN understanding the Roberts “court” indifference to suffering, start with “Ledbetter” [2007]. This case perfectly illustrated the PATTERN of “winners” and “losers.” Research the case, the decision, the outrage in America from that decision, and the Congressional reaction and remedy.

*** “Some things are not forgivable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable.” [Tennessee Williams]

3]. “Walmart v. Dukes” [2011]. Begin with Erwin Chemerinsky’s “The Case Against the Supreme Court”: “The Court came to this conclusion despite the fact..the plaintiffs presented a great deal of evidence to show..Walmart had company-wide practices and policies that caused sex discrimination..statistical studies..expert witnesses..large number of affidavits..it is striking..the Supreme Court consistently ignores this legislative objective and repeatedly construes the statutes to favor business.” [Preamble: U.S. gov’t created to “promote the general Welfare,” NOT corporations]

*** “Evil begins when you treat people as things.” [Terry Pratchatt]

4]. Garrett Epps, “The Court’s Third Great Crisis”, Washington Monthly, Nov-Dec, 2022
– “Well before Dobbs was even argued, it was clear that gutting abortion rights would cause chaos and suffering..it was clear, neither government officials, medical professionals, nor pregnant woman themselves were prepared for the changes a wholesale rejection of Roe would make in obstetric care, maternal health, and..maternal survival.”
[dictionary definition of cruelty: willfully or knowingly causing pain and distress in others]

*** “Some cruel people..seem not to feel anything..A lack of what is judged appropriate feeling..for the plight of the individual whose suffering they cause.” [Tom Regan]

5] “A Wrongfully convicted man must die..to preserve procedure?”, Bryan Clark, Idaho Statesman, 6/12/22
– “..another opinion, both cruel and absurd, issued by the Republican supermajority deserves attention..This is the decision released last month, “Shinn v. Martinez Ramierez,” which is likely to result in the execution of an innocent man…And not because the court has weighed the evidence for and against guilt.. The court is pushing to execute him because it says the evidence showing he is innocent should not be considered at all..The current state of the evidence against Jones is so poor that a federal judge found no judge or jury would likely convict him of any crime..in a prior ruling, a more sane U.S. Supreme Court found..Arizona’s appeal had gaping procedural deficiency of its own.. But this court decided to exercise its discretion to set the procedural hurdle aside..The necessary boxes have been checked, and so it’s time to kill a man. It is as inhuman as it sounds.”
[now – REREAD this. Which is the ‘poster boy’ for Roberts “court” cruelty: this case, Ledbetter, Walmart-Dukes ???]

***”Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don’t, then you are wasting your time on earth.” [Roberto Clemente – who died in a plane crash carrying help to disaster survivors]

6] “Despite dangerous complications, pregnant women denied abortions”, Laura Ungar, Heather Hollingsworth, Associated Press, 12/4/22
– “A growing number of physicians and families tell similar stories..Pregnant women with dangerous medical conditions are showing up at hospitals and doctor’s offices only to be denied the abortions that could help treat them..” “How close to death must a patient be?” ..Despite the risks of infection and blood loss, she couldn’t get an abortion..She drove 4 1/2 hours from home – while in labor – and had the procedure…She got her tubes tied.”
[“willfully or knowingly causing pain or distress to others”]

*** “Cruelty, is perhaps, the worst kind of sin, intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.” [Colbert K. Chesterton]

7]. CHARACTER
a] “Leave My Disability Out Of Your Propaganda”, Kendall Ciesemier, New York Times, 8/2/22
– “Justice Brett Kavanaugh, in a 2007 opinion for the U.S. Court of Appeals in the D.C. Circuit, affirmed the government interest in forcing two disabled people to have abortions, saying that “accepting the wishes of the patients who lack [and always have lacked] the mental capacity to make medical decisions does not make legal sense and would cause erroneous medical decisions.”
b] “Justice” Gorsuch. Research Gorsuch’s pre-Court career; specifically the “Frozen Trucker” verdict, which he lost. Read what Gorsuch said, especially “it wasn’t my job.” Then return to definitions of “cruel.”
c] “Justice” Alito. Research his government career. In his confirmation hearing he said he “had no agenda.” How many people believe that now? The New York times reported Alito promised Senator Kennedy “Roe” was firm and he wouldn’t attack it.
d] “Justice” Scalia. He was an arrogant man. In his mind, on anything, he was “right” and YOU were wrong by definition. He alienated 3 Supreme Court justices so much they often worked against him – to America’s benefit. His insistence on his interpretation of the Constitution – “originalism” – which the Founders themselves rejected.
e] “Justice” Thomas. is an angry and bitter man; has invented a number of bogus theories and interpretations of the Constitution – in the name of “originalism.” “..Thomas ..vowed on the day of his confirmation, at age forty-three, that he intended to spend the next forty-three years..as a Supreme Court justice. It would take that long, he told friends, to get even.” [“Strange Justice”, Jane Mayer & Jill Abramson. page 360]

***”All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.” [Tennessee Williams]

8]. “Risks to Patients as Doctors Deal With Abortion Exceptions”, David Goodman & Azeen Ghorayshi, New York Times, 7/21/22
– “All of us know some of them will die,” Dr. Alireza A. Shamshirsaz, an obstetrician, about delayed treatment and the danger to patients…The fetus would not be viable outside the womb..The hospital sent her home to wait for signs of infection or labor…The option to terminate the pregnancy has long part of the standard care…suffered because they were not allowed to end their pregnancies…One woman required a hysterectomy..all but one of the pregnancies ended with the death of the fetus. “So why did they put them through that?”…”We sent the patient home against her will.”
[“ALL OF US KNOW SOME OF THEM WILL DIE…SO WHY DID WE PUT THEM THROUGH THAT?”]

*** “It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.” [Ilka Chase}. *****Note” for more perspective, read Charles Kimball’s “When Religion Becomes Evil” – and “The Five Warning Signs Of Corruption In Religion” – and go back to the definitions of cruelty abov]

9] Erwin Chemerinsky: “The Conservative Assault on the Constitution”
– “Iqball” [2009]. the “court” ruled, 5-4, the complaint should be dismissed because he failed to allege sufficient facts for a court to conclude it was “plausible” he might win, “no longer did courts have to accept the allegations of the complaint as true, conclusory allegations of fact should be ignored by federal courts..a “radical” decision, every sample complaint in Federal Rules of Civil Procedure would have to be dismissed.” [throw out the rules!!!! the Roberts “court” knows better]

*** “Great is the mischief of a legal crime.” [R.W. Emerson – on the Fugitive Slave law]

10] United States v. Higgs, Sotomayor dissent..”Her project was to make as precise a record as possible of the court’s behavior..[executions of last 6 months vs last 6 decades]. “The Court has even intervened to lift stays of execution that lower courts put in place, ensuring those prisoner”s challenges would never receive a meaningful hearing. The Court made these weighty decisions in response to emergency applications, with little opportunity for proper briefing and consideration, often in just a few short days or even hours. Very few of these decisions offered any public explanation for their rationale. This is not justice.” [return to item #5 above – executing an innocent man]

*** “The best index to a person’s character is [a] how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and [b] how he treats people who can’t fight back.” [Abagail Van Buren}

11] Then please reconsider”
a]. the cruelty of “Citizens United” – which by all factual accounts has led to at least the doubling of corporate “campaign donations,” and who knows how much “Dark Money” [Jane Mayer]. This cruelty is the acceptance and “normalization” of allowing the most rich and powerful to disproportionately set the rules for “democratic” discussion and governance.
b] the cruelty of “Heller” and subsequent lies about what the Second Amendment really says – by the rules of English grammar, by the written intent of the founders, by 5 previous Supreme Court rulings. AMERICANS NOW LIVE IN FEAR. NOWHERE in America is safe. K-college kids are afraid to go to school. Tens of thousands are traumatized EVERY year. Armed men show up at public meetings. No other “civilized” nation endures such domestic terror.
c] the cruelty of “Shelby County” in denying American citizens an equal right to vote. The opinion announcing this infamous decision was a LIE. Within 24 hours, previously unconstitutional practices began. Compounded by this “court’s’ refusal to outlaw gerrymandering – known for 200 years to be a corrupt practice.
d]. the cruelty of being denied access to court to pursue suits against the most powerful business organizations. The right to use courts in the Bill of Rights vetoed by a Roberts “court” winner – big business.
e] the cruelty of attacks on government’s ability to function, and to solve pressing public interest problems. “Little” people, the kind who can’t afford multi-million dollar “campaign contributions” need government to protect them from big business – so, they are programmed to lose by Roberts “court” hidden rules.

*** “The trouble with {Adolf} Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted or sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal..” [Hannah Arendt}

CORRUPTION. The #1 fear of the Founders. The destructive decisions of the HERETIC Roberts “court” have made corruption more likely. The infamous “Citizens United”, “Shelby County”, and the refusal to declare gerrymandering a corrupt practice [something which has been KNOWN for over 200 years] are but the tip of a huge, ticking time bomb waiting to explode and destroy American democracy.

1] Google: corruption is “dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those n power.” #2: “The process by which something, typically a word or expression, is changed from its original use or meaning to one that is regarded as erroneous or debased.” #3 What is the exact meaning of corruption? “Corruption erodes trust, weakens democracy, hampers economic development and further exacerbates inequality, poverty, social division and the environmental crisis.”

2] dictionary/thesaurus definitions, corrupt: debased in character, tainted, made inferior by errors or alterations, as a text; to alter [a language, text, etc] for worse. Corrupt: dishonest, fraudulent unethical, fallacious, , misleading; unreliable: wrong. [to debase] degrade, adulterate, depreciate, taint, ruin, undermine, subvert, impair, deform, misuse, lower, weaken. [o render inaccurate] falsify, misrepresent, misstate, alter, gloss over, fabricate, invent, twist, warp. Corruption: corrupt or dishonest proceedings; debasement or alteration, as of language or text. fraud, misrepresentation, breech of trust.
*** Now – think of the 2005-2023 activities and rhetoric of the Heretic Roberts “court. “Breech of trust; “to alter [language, text, etc.] for worse,” “something..a word or expression, is changed from its original use or meaning..”, “weakens democracy,” further exacerbates inequality, poverty, social division and the environmental crisis; “unethical,” “fabricate,” “wrong,” “undermine,” “subvert,” “invent,” “twist,” “warp,” “misrepresent.” Legal scholars, Supreme Court Justices have accused the Heretic Roberts “court” of doing ALL this – with SPECIFIC reference to SPECIFIC decisions

*** “Corruption comes by degrees.” [Juvenal]

3] “Corporate-Friendly Courts Were the Real Plan”, Sorab Ahmari, Patrick Deneen, Chad Pecknold, New York Times, 6/19/22
– “..the Federalist Society appears poised for a triumph..an economic revolution..on behalf of corporations and other powerful market actors..The Society was one of many institutions nurtured by the right wing of the donor class to roll back the legal and material achievements of U.S. workers..and to elevate economic deregulation law and clear congressional intent to expand the use of commercial arbitration. to employment and consumer contexts..despite the manifest imbalance of power.”

3]b] Professor Erwin Chemerinsky, in “Closing the Court-House Door” has written an entire book on “How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable” because “The Court has restricted who has standing to sue, expanded immunity of governments and government workers, limited the kinds of cases the federal courts can hear, and restricted the right of habeas corpus.”

*** “Whenever there is power, greed, and money, there is corruption>”. [Ken Poirot]

4]. Chris Hedges: “American Fascists. The Christian Right And The War On America”
– “..nearly 25 years ago..Dr. James Luther Adams, my ethics professor at Harvard Divinity School, told us..when we were his age..we would all be fighting the “Christian Fascists.”…The warning came at a moment Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists began speaking about a new political religion that would direct its efforts at taking control of all institutions..Its stated goal was to use the United States to create a global Christian empire.
“He was in Germany in 1935 and 1936..He saw in the Christian Right, long before we did, disturbing similarities with the German Christian Church and the Nazi Party..Adams had seen how the mask of religion hides irreligion.
“The call to obliterate the public and private wall that keeps faith the prerogative of the individual means the obliteration of democracy. [***THE OBLITERATION OF DEMOCRACY] ..in the totalitarian world, there are those worth of love and those unworthy of it..the private sphere becomes the concern of the state. This final restriction of freedom to love..heralds the death of the open society..
“We must, Adams told us, watch closely what these new fascists accuse their opponents of planning. For radical movements expose their own intentions and goals by tarring their enemies with their own nefarious motives…Adams knew that resentments and bigotry lurk below the surface of all democratic societies and can be roused..to promote a creed that calls for the destruction of democracy.
“Adams told us to watch closely what the Christian Right did to homosexuals. The Nazis had used “values” to launch state repression of opponents. Hitler, days after he took power..imposed a ban on all homosexual and lesbian organizations..{and} was largely cheered by German churches. But this campaign legitimized tactics, outside the law, that would soon be employed against others.”
[** read this VERY carefully, Adams warning HAS occurred right in front of YOU, is happening RIGHT NOW***]

*** “As a nation, we began by declaring that all men are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes. When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read, all men are created equal except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics. When it comes to this I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.” [Abraham Lincoln, 8/24/55]

5] “Examining Justice Alito”, Jamelle Bouie, New York Times, 11/27/22
– “..the most striking detail is the extent to which a number of Republican justices, Alito included, appear to have been the targets of a sophisticated and well-funded influence operation design to notch as many legal and constitutional victories for moneyed and conservative interests as the justices are willing to give..Jodi Kantor and Jo Becker, describe a kind of revolving door, where wealthy donors to conservative causes invite the justices to meals, vacation homes and private clubs..contribute money to the Supreme Court Historical Society for the purpose of meeting with and influencing the justices..where the former head of one such operation, Faith and Action, went so far as to purchase a building across the street from the court so that he could cultivate the people who worked there.”

*** “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” [Lord Acton]

6]. “High court grants blanket immunity to feds”, Anya Bidwell, Patrick Jaicomo, USA Today, 6/13/22
– The Supreme Court just dealt a huge blow to federal police accountability..it held that a Border Patrol agent is entitled to blanket immunity from lawsuit simply because he happens to work for the federal government. The court’s ruling in Engbert v. Boyle means that nearly all [if not all] federal officials are effectively above the law. If they violate your constitutional rights – even intentionally – there is absolutely nothing you can do about it unless and until Congress gives you a permission slip to enforce the Constitution…the reason..in Justice Clarence Thomas” words, no court is ever “competent to authorize a damage action” against Border Patrol agents..This decision is just the most recent blow to federal accountability..2017 ruling in Ziglar v. Abbasi..its 2020 ruling in Hernandez vs. Mesa…Enbert v. Boule is the latest in the Court’s death-by-a-thousand-cuts approach to federal accountability.”

*** “Corruption is like a ball of snow, once set rolling it must increase.” [C.C. Colton}

7] “Police Officers Can’t BE Litigated for Miranda Violations, Justices Rule.”, Adam Liptak, New York Times, 6/24/22
– “Justice Alito acknowledged that Miranda rights had constitutional roots. But he wrote that “a violation of Miranda does not necessarily constitute a violation of the Constitution..”Allowing the victims of a Miranda violation to sue a police officer for damages..would have little additional deterrent value, and permitting such claims would cause many problems.”.. In dissent, Justice Elena Kagan wrote..”Today, the court strips individuals of the ability to seek a remedy for violations of the right recognized in Miranda.”

*** “Power does not corrupt men; fools however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.” [George Bernard Shaw]

8]. “Powers of EPA limited.”, Robert Barnes, Dino Grandoni, Washington Post Weekly, 7/3/22
– “Capping carbon dioxide emissions at a level that will force nationwide transition away from the use of coal to generate electricity may be a sensible “solution to the crisis of the day,” Roberts wrote, referring to a court precedent. “But it is not plausible that Congress gave EPA the authority to adopt on its own such a regulatory scheme.”…The case deeply divided the business community. Many companies and other firms in the coal sector urged the court to rein in EPA..major tech and retail firms investing in renewable energy..told the court that “stable, nationwide rules” are needed to avert climate disaster.”

*** “Why sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” [Alice in Wonderland]

9]. “The court’s Thomas family problem”, Jesse Wegman, New York Times, 3/29/22
– “And that’s precisely the problem: We shouldn’t have to wonder. The Supreme Court is the most powerful judicial body in the country, and yet, as Alex Hamlin reminded us, it has neither the sword nor the purse as a means to enforce its rulings. It depends instead on the American people’s acceptance of its legitimacy, which is why the justices must make every possible effort to appear fair, unbiased, and beyond reproach. The most obvious way for justices to demonstrate their independence in practice..is to recuse themselves from any case in which their impartiality might reasonably be questioned. It does not matter whether there is, in fact, a conflict of interest: the mere appearance of bias or conflict should be enough to compel..any member of the court to step aside. Thomas has paid lip service to this ideal..the brazenness with the Thomases have flouted the most reasonable expectations of judicial rectitude is without precedent..”

*** “A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.” [William Shenstone]

10] WARNING: YOU should NOT just examine the Heretic Roberts “court” alone. Context matters. YOU should be asking WHY are THESE 6 Republican activists on the Supreme Court??? There were millions spent to get them there – WHY??? AND – WHO spent that money??? Investigate the post-2005 Republican mantra for the Supreme Court: “No more O’Connors” and “No more Souters”. exactly WHAT is being said here??? WHY is it that Republicans don’t want any more justices like O’Connor and Souter – THEIR OWN nominees????? What did O’Connor and Souter do on the Supreme Court that was “wrong” in Republican eyes??? ***THIS. IS. A. BIG. QUESTION. – that unlocks much of what current right-wing “justice’ is all about.
Numerous legal scholars and Supreme Court justices have said: “people on a mission”. – what does THIS mean?????
Remember among “corruption” definitions were “breach of trust,” debasement or alteration, as of language or text; unethical, misleading, wrong, undermine, subvert, fabricate. Have YOU seen any examples of this???????????????
How do the rulings of this Heretic “court” honor or dishonor the Founding Generations KNOWN intents??? How do they or don’t they honor the 27 Amendments? Has this “court” formed a “more perfect Union, establish[ed] Justice, insure[d] domestic Tranquility, promote[d] the general Welfare?????????????????

Has this “court” sincerely practiced and illustrated “the better angels of our nature” ?

This HERETIC “court” has violated the confidence and trust of the American people. More and more, especially after July, 2022, Americans see the HERETIC Roberts “court” as a “kangaroo court. Their track record of using cases to accomplish ideological goals; the increasingly common comment of a “court” that is “on a mission”; the questions of “why are they accepting this case?”; brings this “court” more into disrepute; threatens the VERY IDEA of “justice”; builds questions of “is this really a “supreme court” from the shabby opinions issued – as in is THIS the best “legal reasoning” that America can produce???

1] Erwin Chemerinsky: “The Conservative Assault on the Constitution”
— “The assault on the constitution is the result of a concerted effort by conservatives to alter fundamental constitutional principles. The focus needs to be not just on the courts, but also on the policies developed during the presidencies of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush, and Bush..conservatives have sought to create unprecedented, unchecked executive power..to obliterate the long-standing wall separating church and state..to abolish any constitutional protection for privacy..sought to greatly reduce constitutional protections for criminal defendants..worked to eliminate all affirmative action and to institute a vision of the Constitution that will perpetuate deep racial inequalities..Most successfully, they have closed the courthouse doors…
“The conservative assault on the Constitution is driven not by methodology or interpretive philosophy but by ideology..Justice Scalia professes..he follows the original meaning of the Constitution, but his are the views of the 2008 Republican platform, not of the Constitution’s framers.”

***”Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of men who can fabricate it.” [Hannah Arendt]

2] “The Supreme Court Has A Crisis of Trust”, New York Times editorial, 10/2/22
– “The court’s rulings are now in line with the views of the average Republican voter. In the process, the court has unmoored itself from both the Constitution it is sworn to protect and the American people it is privileged to serve..The way the court went about eliminating the federal right to abortion is a prime example of..misuse of its power. First, the right-wing justices used the court’s “shadow docket,”.. to allow an obviously unconstitutional anti-abortion law in Texas to stand. They also agreed to hear a separate challenge out of Mississippi..that didn’t formally ask them to overturn Roe v. Wade..they chose to do so anyway..”

*** “The essential claim of the fundamentalist is that he knows the truth..It is an external truth, brought to him by a book, a sacred text, a mullah, a pope, a guru, a political visionary, or a religious community with an authoritative pastor.” [Andrew Sullivan: “The Conservative Soul”]

3]. “Compelled Contributions”, RobBoston, Church and State, October, 2021
– “The case, “Carson v. Malkin,” is sponsored by the “Institute for Justice,” a libertarian organization that has long sought to erode public education and other government provided services…The new legal tussle comes during a time when the Supreme Court has been redefining “religious freedom” in troubling ways [Zelman, Trinity, Espinoza]..The parents are essentially asserting that without taxpayer support, they can’t fully practice their faith. There was a time when such a stance would have been laughed out of the Supreme Court.”

***North Carolina Constitution, 1776, Articles XXXIV: “..there shall be no establishment of anyone religious church or denomination in this State..either shall any person, on any pretense whatsoever, be compelled to attend any place of worship contrary to his own faith..nor be obliged to pay, for the purchase of any glebe, or the building of any house of worship, or for the maintenance of any minister or ministry, contrary to what he believes right..”
not “ON ANY. PRETENSE. WHATSOEVER ” – forced to support another person’s religion, in any way. PERIOD.

4]. “R.I.P. the Establishment Clause,” Nicholas J. Little, Free Inquiry, October/November, 2020
– in Espinoza, the Montana Department of Revenue ruled the state’s no-aid program prohibited vouchers subsidizing education in religious schools. The Montana Supreme Court struck down the entire program. “No program..existed that discriminated against religion. No student or school was in a worse place because of their religious identification..Yet the Supreme Court not only took up the case, it ruled that the scholarship program must be reinstated and must permit religious schools to participate..at a stroke, ruled the no-aid provision of thirty-eight states unconstitutional..The decision took standing law – the baseline requirement..an individual must have an active dispute causing real harm to proceed in court – and threw it out..To reach the decision the Court wanted..it accepted a case with no active dispute..there were no victims.” [this is called USING CASES TO REACH DESIRED IDEOLOGICAL GOALS]

*** “When a religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and when it cannot support itself..it is a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.” [Benjamin Franklin, 10/9/1780]

5]. “The Court’s Third Great Crisis”, Garrett Epps, Washington Monthly, November/December, 2022
– “..the Court granted review in a North Carolina case that would give the conservative majority a chance to begin to establish a principle Texas..tried to use to overturn the 2020 election..”independent state legislature”..can decide elections..A second granted case presents a chance to cut back drastically on the remaining protections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. A third set of cases affords the Court the chance to achieve a long-held conservative aim of eliminating “affirmative action” programs in college admissions.
“..the partisan lineup..the aggressive tone of the majority’s opinions..the willingness of the conservative justices to lend themselves to seemingly partisan organizations, events, causes; the ostentatious disregard by Clarence Thomas of even the most basic norms of impartiality – all of these resemble nothing so much as the workings of a legislative branch of government..Our Supreme Court is now something akin to the Guardian Council that ensures religious conformity within the..Islamic Republic of Iran.”
[this is called USING CASES TO ACHIEVE DESIRED IDEOLOGICAL GOALS – like the Guardian Council of another
“republic” that claims to be “democratic”]

***”A judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints, for that would show not only disregard for the specifics of the particular case, it would display disdain for the entire judicial process.” [R.B. Ginsburg, Senate confirmation hearing]

6]. Erwin Chemerinsky: “The Case Against The Supreme Court”
– “Citizens United”.. significantly changed the American political system..on June 29, 2009, the Court on its own, asked for a new briefing..None of the parties to the case has asked the Court to consider this constitutional issue..Justice Stevens wrote a lengthy dissent, vehemently disagreeing with every aspect of the majority decision…
“There is much that is deeply disturbing about this case..the premise that spending money is pure speech is dubious..spending money is conduct..the premise that corporations should have the same speech rights as individuals is just wrong..no evidence..the framers of the First Amendment meant to protect corporations or campaign spending..Citizens United was stunning for its judicial activism.”
[this is called. USING CASES TO ACHIEVE DESIRED IDEOLOGICAL GOALS]

*** “We can either have a democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few. But we cannot have both.” [Justice Brandeis]

7]a] “Limitations of Statute”, Marcia Brown, Washington Monthly, July-August, 2022
– “These attacks on “Chevron” represent the culmination of a decades-long effort by conservatives..to achieve..the “deconstruction of the administrative state”.. Conservatives have executed a strategy to delegitimize and derail the system by which federal agencies produce rules and regulations. They have built an archipelago of independent-funded think tanks and university-affiliated institutions to cast doubt on individual regulations and the rule-making apparatus in general. When, in power, they have slashed funding and staff to agencies and wielded cost-benefit analysis in ways that emphasize the supposed cost of regulations and minimize the possible benefits. And Republicans have, for decades, prioritized supplying a steady stream of anti-regulatory judges to the federal bench.”

7]b] “Race Has Role In Major Cases Before Justices”, Adam Liptak, New York Times, 10/3/22
– “The court has near-total power to decide which cases it will hear, and it often uses discretion to resolve disputes among lower courts. The court agreed to hear many of the major cases in the coming term despite lack of such conflicts, an indication that the new majority is pursuing an agenda and setting the pace of change.”

7]c] “The court, restraining bureaucrats, stages its own power grab”, Noah Feldman, Bloomberg Opinion, 7/5/22
– “The bad news is that, using the superseding doctrine of “major questions” as a workaround, courts unsympathetic to agency action now have a tool to overturn administrative regulations rather than deferring to the agencies. To make matters worse, “major question” doctrine could easily be understood as a further step toward eventual abolition of the “Chevron” doctrine.”

7]d] “Major Victory in Long Game to Dismantle Business Regulations”, Charlie Savage, New York Times, 7/1/22
– “The Supreme Court ruling in the Environmental Protection case..was a substantial victory for libertarian-minded conservatives who have worked for decades to curtail or dismantle modern-style government regulation of the economy..a decision whose implications go beyond hobbling the government’s ability to fight climate change. Many other types of regulations might now be harder to defend. The ruling widens an opening to attack a government structure that, in the 20th century, became the way American society imposed rules on businesses..For decades, wealthy conservatives have been funding a long-game effort to hobble the system.”

*** “Only governments and..courts remained as sources of authority, if enacted Charles’s “libertarian policies would eliminate these.”…”He was driven..to smash the one thing left in the world that could discipline him: government.” [Clayton Coppin]
“..our movement must destroy the prevalent statist paradigm” [Charles Koch, 1978 “Libertarian Review” article]

There is much in the above evidence [ a small fraction of the mountain of evidence] that should frighten YOU. The wealthy “conservatives” want to dismantle a government system of rules that exists, is meant, to protect YOU against the 1865-2023 corporate track record of doing ANYTHING, including murder, to maximize their profits. The Heretic Roberts “court” is a culmination of those efforts. The Roberts court is THE SINGLE MOST ‘BUSINESS-FRIENDLY ‘supreme court’ since 1945 – which is a major reason why they’re in power. No other modern “court” has attempted to RADICALLY change the course of 1901-2004 American history, society, government as this “court” has.

***July, 2022, Justice Sotomayor: “A restless and newly constituted court..continues to dismantle the wall of separation between church and state that the Framers fought to build.”
*** July, 2022, Justice Kagan: “The Court appoints itself – instead of Congress or the expert agency – the decision-maker on climate policy. I cannot think of many things more frightening.”

This HERETIC “court” has violated basic principles of courts as neutral, fact and precedent respecting bodies. It is DOCUMENTED this “court” has ignored inconvenient facts. How many times have YOU seen this: ‘the expected ruling..” WHY is that phrasing used? Examine the “court” record of “winners” and “losers” for neutrality. Research the ideological, political, social, and economic power behind this “court.”

1] Jack Rakove: “Original Meanings”: Leonard Levy: the Supreme Court’s use of originalist evidence is best described as a mix of “law office history” and justificatory rhetoric which offers little reason to think this method..can provide faithful and accurate..original constitutional understandings. Rakove: originalism “..rests on the..legal fiction that most clauses of the Constitution possessed a clear meaning at their inception.”

*** “Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.” [Adolf Hitler]

2] Leonard Levy” “Original Intent and the Framer’s Constitution”
– “The centuries of Court history should bring us to understand what really is a notorious fact: the Court has flunked history..Justices stand censored for abusing historical evidence in a way that reflects adversely on their intellectual record as well as on their historical competence..The Court artificially selects historical facts from one side only, ignoring contrary data, in order..to give the appearance of respectability..The text is what counts, but the notion that it must be construed according to original intent is itself a prejudice. It is a notion that lacks original intent..no evidence, not a shred, exists to show..the Framers meant, wanted, or expected future generations to construe the Constitution as they, the Framers, had.” [“prejudice”; “not a shred” of evidence exists !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

*** “I don’t want to know what the law is. I want to know who the judge is.” [Roy Cohn] ***** REMEMBER this! MEMORIZE it. THIS is the post-1969 American Far-Right legal strategy: “knowing who the judge is”

3]. Amanda Hollis-Brusky: “Ideas With Consequences The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution”
– “the Federalist Society network was most influential in cases where the Supreme Court took a big step away from their established constitutional framework..members of the Federalist Society functioned as active conduits for idea transmission. The intellectual capital they supplied through legal briefs and written scholarship helped the Supreme Court majority justify these revolutionary constitutional decisions..the Federalist Society network helped foster and facilitate a climate conducive to constitutional change..the Federalist Society’s role as a powerful and vocal ‘judicial audience’ [Baum 2006]..has been important in keeping judges and Justices aligned with the network’s views and shared beliefs once on the bench.”

*** “Truth is the most important thing. That is why we should ration it.” [Lenin]

4] a] note: The Federalist Society was primarily funded in early days by the Olin Foundation. John Olin was against “socialism,” government regulations, labor unions, and the New Deal. Olin wanted to root “liberalism” out of major law schools; was the “dominant decision-maker” in the “law and economics” field, which ran various institutes for federal judges. 40% of federal judges attended one of Henry Manne’s sessions.
4]b] Michael Avery, Danielle McLaughlin: “The Federalist Society”
– The “Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment” also runs “training programs” for judges, justices, professors, and others. “FREE’s reach into the judiciary is staggering.” Since 1992, a quarter of the chief judges in federal courts have attended one of their programs – which involve “free market solutions” and opposition to the “takings clause.” Questions are raised when various corporations bring cases into the courts of these same judges, who were “trained” at sessions they sponsored.
!!!!!!!!!!! Time Out! Why do judges “need” to attend “training sessions”. sponsored by private sector actors!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*** “There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.” [Justice Black]

5] “justice” Alito in “Dobbs”: “The inescapable conclusion is that a right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions. On the contrary, an unbroken tradition of prohibiting abortion on pain of criminal punishment persisted from the earliest days of the common law until 1973.”
!!!!!!!! the historical IGNORANCE and FALSEHOOD of this is mind boggling – it is 100%. FALSE.
*** The truth: World Book Encyclopedia: “Before the 1800s, there were few religious or legal obstacles to abortion prior to quickening..In the United States, abortion before quickening was not an offense under common law before the mid-1800s..”
***The Truth, Wikipedia: “Abortion has existed in North America since the European colonization..was a fairly common practice, and was not always illegal or controversial..Connecticut was the first state to regulate abortion in 1821..in 1859, abortion was not a crime in 21 of 33 states…Roe returned abortion to its liberalized pre-1820 status.”

*** “every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.” [Ralph Waldo Emerson]

6] Andrew Seidel: “American Crusade”
– “unshackle your mind from..belief..the Supreme Court is an impartial arbiter of truth and justice. The Crusade depends upon people believing this myth. McConnell, Trump, and Leo cheated, and stole and packed the courts to put their collaborators in place not because they would administer justice evenhandedly, but because they wouldn’t…
“The idea..a single exemption to any law necessitates every religious exemption to that same law has been roundly rejected in the legal academy as: “unprincipled and bizarre,” “an untenable proposition” that would make every religious objector “a law unto himself,” “an almost insurmountable barrier to regulation,” and “intellectually incoherent”..
“If the facts don’t fit the Crusade, the Court will alter reality, like the Town of Greece, prayers, gay wedding cake, and Missouri ministry cases..These justices overriding principle won’t be reality or the law or the Constitution..but simply this: Christians win.” [“bizarre,’ “untenable,” “intellectually incoherent” – THIS on the “supreme court” ???????????]

*** “As a member of this Court, I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.” [Justice Frankfurter]

7] “Supreme Court upheaval is swift, sweeping”; Robert Barnes; Washington Post Weekly, 7/10/22
– Justice Kagan accused the majority of inventing standards to achieve its goals in the EPA case: “The current Court is textualist only when being so suits it..When that method would frustrate broader goals, special cannons like the “major questions” doctrine magically appear as get-out-of-text-free cards.”

***”Arbitrary power and the rule of the Constitution cannot both exist. They are antagonistic and incompatible forces; one or the other must of necessity perish whenever they are brought in conflict.” [Justice Sutherland]

8]. Erwin Chemerinsky: “The Case Against the Supreme Court”
– Scalia, “stressed the efficiency of benefits of arbitration over court litigation and said that it was important to protect defendants, such as corporations, from the “in terrorem” effects of class action, which pressure them into settlements. The Court’s desire to protect business and its hostility to class actions suits could not have been more clearly stated..The Court said..the Federal Arbitration Act requires..Nowhere does the Federal Arbitration Act say or imply this [!!!!!! Scalia is defending something that DOES NOT EXIST – and – making it into new law!!!!!!!!].. nothing in the text or history of the Federal Arbitration Act implies..this..in a subsequent case, in 2013, the Court said..an arbitration clause is to be enforced even when the effect surely will immunize a defendant’s wrongful conduct from any remedy.”
– “Al-Kidd should have been a simple case.. Never before had the Supreme Court said..the test is whether “every reasonable official” would have known..Never before had the Supreme Court said..a plaintiff could recover for a constitutional violation only if existing law placed the question “beyond debate”.”
– “Each time [the Voting Rights Act of 1965] was set to expire, Congress extended it. Congress documented continued discrimination [650 attempts between 1982 and 2006]..The Senate voted 98-0 to extend the law for another 25 years..only 3 “no” votes in the House..President George W. Bush signed the extension into law. In Shelby County..the Court..held Section 4[b].. was unconstitutional..for the first time since the nineteenth century..the Court declared unconstitutional a federal civil rights statute..[using] “equal sovereignty”.. Nowhere does the Constitution say this.”
***re-read the examples – the HERETIC Roberts “court” is MAKING. STUFF. UP!!!! and, making it law

*** “Anybody who doesn’t take the truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large one either.” [Albert Einstein}

9]. Linda Greenhouse: “Justice on the Brink”
– “The phrase “ministerial exception” appears nowhere in federal law. It was an invention of lower court judges..In 2012, the Supreme Court endorsed this reasoning.”
– In “Hosanna-Tabor”, Justice Sotomayor dissent: “The court had traded legal analysis for a rubber stamp,” in allowing religious schools “to discriminate widely and with impunity for reasons wholly divorced from religious beliefs.” [100,00 secular teachers were stripped of statutory protection]
– “..to name religion would have required Roberts to acknowledge that the profound doctrinal shift the court was making, from equal treatment to special treatment..In dissent..Kagan..Breyer and Sotomayor had no trouble naming what had just occurred: “The Court orders California to weaken its restrictions on public gatherings by making a special exception for worship services. The majority does so even though the State’s policies treat worship just as favorably as secular activities [including political assemblies] that, according to medical evidence, pose the same risk of COVID transmission..That mandate defies our case law, exceeds our judicial role, and risks worsening the pandemic.”
[more MAKING. STUFF. UP ]

*** “No man is above the law and no man is below it..” [Theodore Roosevelt]

The above is a very. SMALL. sample of how the HERETIC Roberts “court” has been. MAKING. STUFF UP in order to carry out the Crusade. ALL this before the “winning” record of big business of about 75%; and the even more impressive “winning” record of right-wing religion of about 90% – both. TOTALLY. OUT. OF. PROPORTION of ALL other post-1945 Supreme Courts.
Would YOU, as a “reasonable person,” say the Roberts “court” is a neutral body, has no agenda, respects known facts and long-standing precedents, and treats all who come before it evenhandedly???????????

VIII – this heretic “court” has repeatedly violated basic American principles.

*** James Madison, Federalist #71: “..it is the just observation that the people commonly intend the public good.”
Madison, Federalist #45: “..the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to
be pursued; that no form of government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted for the attainment
of this object.”

1]. James M. Burns and Stewart Burns: “A People’s Charter”: “The story of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 is not about liberty. It is about unity, stability, security – about order..delegates were resolved to build a stouter, more durable union.” “The consensus that has developed among Americans with regard to the fundamental rights that ought to be protected by any Bill of Rights worthy of the name…The roots of that consensus lay in the English heritage..Magna Carta.. doctrines of natural rights..”

*** “That the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis, on which the whole American fabric has been erected.”
[John Marshall, “Marbury”]

2] Leonard Levy: “Origins of the Bill of Rights” [83]. “No one in the United States during the generation of the Framers advocated a federal power to promote, assist, or support religion.” [91} “..the First Amendment meant, indisputably, that Congress could make no law concerning the sort of establishment that characterized Lutheran Sweden, Anglican England, Roman Catholic Spain, or Presbyterian Scotland.” [139] “Every American colony enacted laws that necessitated both military service and guard duty by all able-bodied men.” [141] “The Articles of Confederation..provided that every colony shall always keep up a well-regulated and disciplined militia but said nothing about the individual’s right to be armed for his own purposes.” [151]. “What mattered was not what the Magna Carta actually said but what the people thought it said..what it had come to mean. What also mattered was the inspiring imagery..” [252]. 18th century: property “did not mean merely the ownership of material things..Locke used the word to mean all that belongs to a person..” Madison, 1792: the “larger and juster meaning” of the term property: “every thing to which a man may attach value and have a right..”.. he “may be equally said to have a property in his rights.” [255]. “Nothing in the thought of the Framers foreclosed the possibility that new rights might claim the loyalties of succeeding generations.” Virginia Chief Justice: “May we not in the progress of things, discover some great and important [right], which we don’t now think of.”

*** “When we [Americans] talk about the rule of law, we assume we’re talking about a law that promotes freedom, that promotes justice, that promotes equality.” [Justice A. M. Kennedy]

3]. Jack Rakove: “Original Meanings”: “On the principles of government, a broad consensus reigned. Government existed for the good of the many, and to protect liberty, property, and equal rights of the citizens. the idea that representation would help the government determine the common good was commonplace, and so was the belief that separation of powers was essential to the protection of rights…”Life, liberty, and property comprised the fundamental trinity of inalienable rights..Americans were also inclined to add a fourth ‘natural and inalienable’ right: ‘To worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences and understandings..”

*** “A constitution, from its nature, deals in generals, not in detail. Its framers cannot perceive minute distinctions which arise in the progress of the nation, and therefore confine it to the establishment of broad and general principles.”
[John Marshall, “Bank”]

4] The BEGINNING list of “basic American principles” is above. To this we may add the “Bill of Rights.” The public good, the general welfare, unity, stability, security, HAPPINESS, absolute separation of church and state, the common DUTY of able-bodied men to maintain a ‘well-regulated and disciplined militia”, the rule of law, separation of powers, ‘worship according to the dictates of one’s own conscience’……

5] Perspective: the framers top fears: corruption, slavery, religion, mobs. Madison’s incomplete notes for the roughly 100 day Philadelphia Convention contained the word “corruption” 54 times. 54 TIMES. They were obsessed with creating “a virtuous republic,’ of virtuous citizens, of virtuous leaders.
Slavery is America’s original sin and curse. Slave-holding states refused to join a “united states” unless slave “rights’ were maintained [which led to civil war, Jim Crow, and continued discrimination].
The Founders were very well aware of religious warfare in Europe. they were determined to remove this threat in their 1776-1800 state constitutions, Article VI, and Amendment One.
Fear of mob violence, some done in the 1780s, led to various Articles protecting property and for the calling up of the militia to suppress violence. Those fears were realized in January, 2021.

*** “Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.” [Henry Clay, 1829]

6]. The list of the heretic Roberts “court” violations of basic American principles is close to endless. they have lie3d and misruled big and “small.” Just a few samples:
A] CORRUPTION, the Founders’ #l concern. Begin with “Citizens United.” “Political spending by billionaires soared” [7/21/20]: “Billionaires gave 37 times as much in political contributions..as they did 10 years earlier.”
Double Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Thomas Ricks, “First Principles”: “..the founders would be appalled by how money has come to dominate American politics..They did not design the United States to be an oligarchy…the founders would have considered corporate campaign spending the essence of political corruption.”

*** “..there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the ‘money touch,’ but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of some many glorified pawnbrokers..” [Theodore Roosevelt]

B] Racism, this heretic “court” has decided to overturn many bipartisan civil rights laws of long standing. Prominent is “Shelby County,” in which the “court” said the old Confederacy “had changed,’ therefore no need to restrict their attempts to rig voting. WITHIN 24 GHOURS !!!!!, Texas made them the fool, reinstating a previously held unconstitutional law; to be followed by other old Confederate states.

***”No man can put a chain around the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened around his own neck.” [Frederick Douglass}

C] RELIGION, this heretic “court,” in a long string of cases, has now created a class of SUPER CITIZENS. People, usually “conservative Christians,” now have the “right’ to ignore laws that other Americans must follow – simply by claiming their “religious rights were excessively burdened” [by having to do what other Americans are required to do !!!!!]. These SUPER CITIZENS now have the ‘right’ to have THEIR churches and schools financed by other American taxpayers; have a ‘right’ to discriminate. RELIGIOUS DOGMA has been made American law – a TOTAL VIOLATION of all 1636-2004 American laws, intent, beliefs.

***”Reynolds”, 1879: “..to permit this would be to make the professed doctrines of religious belief superior to the law of the land, and in effect permit every citizen to become a law unto himself.”

D]. MOBS, mob violence is now considered a major domestic terrorism threat. “U.S.Military chiefs assert American values – and a warning” [Martin Schram, 9/11/22]: Eight former defense secretaries and five former chairman of thee Joint chiefs of Staff, in an open letter, warned of possible future coup attempts.
“Guns doing the talking at protests” [Mike McIntire, 11/27/22]: “In June, armed demonstrations around the United States amounted to nearly one a day…Armed protestors use open-carry laws to intimidate opponents.”
Beginning in 2008, with “Heller,’ the heretic Roberts “court” upended over 200 years of understood law about guns in America, including 5 Supreme Court decisions. NEVER before, in English and American law, dating back over 700 years, had a “court” declared ordinary people had “rights” to carry guns in public.

*** “The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the America people, just now, are in much want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while others with the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men’s labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name, liberty. And it follows each of these things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names – liberty and tyranny.” {Abraham Lincoln]

7] The heretic Roberts “court” is illegitimate, ahistorical, unConstitutional, unAmerican, and VERY destructive. They have repeatedly violated, broken, destroyed. basic American principles, understood 1636-2004.
Can any “reasonable person” ignore their PATTERNS of “winners” and “losers,” the DAMAGE they have inflicted on America in the name of “law.” Should a “reasonable American” be entitled to ask what they have done is really “law”?

*** “Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.” [Justice Brandeis]

***This is a story of a “heretic king” and a HERETIC “court.” It is a brief summary of damage done to ancient Egypt and modern America. A “heretic king” and a HERETIC ‘court” declare THEY know better; THEIR version of religion was THE correct one; THEY imposed radical beliefs on unwilling publics; THEY violated centuries of what people had come to respect and expect.

1] National Geographic: “King Tut and The Golden Age of Pharaohs:
A] page 18: “Egypt was in turmoil when Tut took the throne. Years before, the pharaoh Akhenaten..had turned tradition upside down..”
B] page 43: “..the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten threw Egypt into turmoil by turning his back on the old gods and neglecting affairs abroad…plunge Egypt into religious revolution that shattered centuries of tradition…brought the vast and powerful Egyptian empire to the brink of collapse.”

2] Michael Hayes: “The Egyptians”:
A] page 117: “Akhenaten’s new order was a reversal of what Egyptians had taken for granted. He had changed the old balance of Egyptian religious life…Akhenaten used his kingship to break the cherished Egyptian reverence for their old beliefs and practices.”

3] internet: “World History Encyclopedia”: “To those who came after Akhenaten: “..he was the “heretic king” and “the enemy” whose memory needed to be erased.”

4] Wikipedia: “This culture shift away from traditional religion was reversed after his death. Akhenaten’s monuments were dismantled and hidden, his statues were destroyed, and his name excluded from lists of rulers..”

***** KEY POINTS; “…Egypt in turmoil..had turned tradition upside down..plunge Egypt into a religious revolution that shattered centuries of tradition..”
“..a reversal of what Egyptians had taken for granted..changed the old balance of Egyptian religious life..”

5] The Roberts-McConnell-Leo-Trump HERETIC “court”. HAS put America in turmoil; HAS shattered centuries of tradition; IA a reversal of what Americans have taken for granted; HAS changed the old balance of American religious life. PERIOD.

6] America’s oldest tradition: SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE. Roger Williams; 1657 Flushing Remonstrance; royal charters for Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Maryland; 1776-1800 state constitutions; Madison’s Memorial and Remonstrance; 1787 Northwest Ordinance; Madison’s first Amendment One proposal: “The Civil Rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, nor on any pretext infringed.”

7] see Leonard Levy’s “The Establishment Clause” for voluminous evidence from Baptist preachers, petitions from Virginia evangelicals, state constitutions. ALL DEMANDING ‘SEPARATION. OF. CHURCH. AND. STATE.” A top fear, perhaps. THE. top fear of ordinary founding generations of Americans: a church they didn’t attend would seek to control their lives.

8] see Edwin Gaustad’s “Faith of the Founders.” Four 1776-1800 state constitutions forbad a “religious test for office” [Article VI] Eight 1776-1800 state constitutions prohibited an active minister from their government. ****** Time Out! THINK ON THIS – banned an active minister from government!!!!!!!!!!! – Just what are 1776-1800 Americans saying about “separation of church and state”. -WITH THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Most had this: “There shall be no establishment of any one religious sect in this State in preference to another..” **** ANY doubt what they meant????????

9] Gaustad, page 141: 1776 North Carolina constitution, Articles XXXIV: “..neither shall any person, on any pretense whatsoever, be compelled to attend any place of worship contrary to his own faith or judgment, nor be obliged to pay, for the purchase of any glebe, or the building of any house of worship, or for the maintenance of any minister or ministry, contrary to what he believes right, or has voluntarily and personally engaged to perform..”
***** ON ANY PRETENSE WHATSOEVER compelled to support any church not voluntarily his

********** NOW, dear people: study the 2005-2022 HERETIC “court” record for all the OBVIOUS. VIOLATIONS of what the founding generations said, intended, WROTE. about “separation of church and state”

10] CLEAR FOUNDING GENERATIONS INTENTS: 1]. no church YOU don’t attend can have ANY legal ability to force YOU to follow its dogma [DOBBS!!!!!!!]; 2] no church YOU don’t attend can have ANY access to YOUR tax dollars [many decisions!]; 3]. YOU do NOT have to pay for maintaining ANY religious buildings; 4] the religious dogma of NO church can be put into American law [anti-contraceptive]; 5] neither YOU or ANY taxpayers can be forced to subsidize another church’s schools – in ANY manner.

11] Constitution’s Preamble: the U.S. government is created to: “..form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility..promote the general Welfare..”
********* the HERETIC ‘court’ has violated ALL those requirements: its radical decisions have divided Americans; have made a MOCKERY of “Justice;” have insured there would be no domestic Tranquility; by aiding political corruption [Citizens United, allowing gerrymandering, Shelby County] have done the OPPOSITE of promoting the general Welfare.
********** the HERETIC ‘court” has violated American traditions on religion; on what a “well-regulated militia” is; on political corruption [the Founders’ number one fear]; on ‘no man is above or below the law” – and, in so doing. “..threw [America] into turmoil.”

12]. IRONY DEPARTMENT!!! – public prayer. The HERETIC ‘court” so eager to reward favored clients [which they promised they did NOT have!!!], said a football coach was ENTITLED to pray on the 50-yard line after games [no matter how much pain THAT inflicted on players], apparently in massive ignorance of what the Christian religion’s founder said in Matthew 6: 5-6: “When you pray, do not do as the hypocrites do, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of streets, so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward. Instead, when you pray, enter your room and shut the door, and pray to thy Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret shall reward you openly.”

13] SINISTER DEPARTMENT – creation of super citizens above the law. By numerous decisions, the HERETIC ‘court” has made a MOCKERY of “equal justice under law”. by elevating those who claim “sincerely held religious beliefs”. above laws other Americans are required to follow, even during a world-wide pandemic.

14] DAMAGE DEPARTMENT – the Egyptians had an advantage over America. After the “heretic king” died they could tear down his statues and erase his memory. After the HERETIC “court” is no more, it will be much more difficult to erase THEIR memory and reverse all the DAMAGE IT HAS INFLICTED. Not to just the concept of a nation under fair law, but to ALL the various social and governmental institutions, and even more – to all the innocent ordinary Americans whose lives have been DAMAGED.
The various corruptions will be, in many cases, very difficult to undo: the people who couldn’t vote, the people unjustly dealt with, damage done to Americans faith in government and law, the CORRUPT LAWS enacted.
There is considerable evidence Americans have left organized religions due to the politicalization of religion, some of this attributable to the words and actions of the HERETICAL ‘court.”
The fact this HERETIC ‘court” is made up of 6 members all raised in one conservative fundamentalist church has only increased opposition and resentment by the American public. That many radical decisions reflect the dogma of their church put into law is beginning to stain the “court” as a real court, a respected American institution.
When serious articles about this HERETIC ‘court” talk in terms of “a Catholic Court,” or recently {Jan-Feb, 2023 The Atlantic} say the infamous Dobbs. decision is “..a victory for the bishops” and that the judicial branch “structure of appointed potentates resembles the Church hierarchy,: we – as a nation – are in very dangerous waters.
As dissenting Supreme Court Justices have said, many/most of the HERETIC “court’s” wounds have been self-inflicted by the HERETIC PHARAOHS themselves. God may NOT be able to save this “court.”

Article III, “Good Behavior.” The 6 Republican “justices” have violated tenets of Article III, Section I: “The judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior..”
In deciding the merits of this accusation, consider, for a beginning, all the MOUNTAIN of evidence already supplied in posts I-VI. Consider the personal conduct of the Republican “justices” off the bench. They are becoming increasingly suspect of highly partisan views because of that off-bench conduct. Consider many other factors.

Consider the following dictionary definitions of “good”: “upright, honorable, charitable, trustworthy, beneficial,, competent, qualified, suitable.” Are YOU comfortable with ANY of these definitions when discussing ANY of the 6 current Republican “justices”?

Consider their conduct during their “job applications” – the Senate hearings. Have ANY of them been accused of prevarication or perjury; of broken promises to Senators? Have there been accusations of parts of their records having been “kept under wraps”?
Have there been questions raised about why THEY were nominated for the Supreme Court? Have there been questions about their selection/nomination process having violated the Constitution? Which Article? Once on the Court, have their votes raised concerns about that Article, and their Senate testimony? Should they have accepted a Supreme Court position?
Consider the Roberts-McConnell-Leo-Trump “court’s” track record, the 2005-2022 PATTERN. Is there a PATTERN of “winners” and “losers”? If so, is this PATTERN asymmetric from earlier Supreme Courts?
Consider their oath to do “equal justice to rich and poor,” to uphold the Constitution. Have they IN FACT done “equal justice” to rich and poor? Have they, in real life results, upheld the Constitution?
The Preamble has these REQUIREMENTS of American governmental bodies: form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, promote the general Welfare. Have Roberts ‘court” decisions done this?
Consider their conduct on the bench. HOW have they operated? Have they followed accepted norms of conduct, 1789-2005 precedents? What is the Quality and Honesty of their opinions? How have they treated evidence? What is the FACTUAL TRUTH of their opinions?

Consider the following evidence. YOU decide if the 6 Republican “supreme court” appointees have exhibited the “good Behavior” Article III REQUIRES they display; if they have honored their oaths of office, if they have followed judicial codes of ethical behavior REQUIRED of American judges.

1] Missouri Senator Josh Hawley: “The bargain has never been explicitly articulated, but religious conservatives know what it is. The bargain is that you go along with the party establishment, you support their policies and priorities – or at least keep your mouth shut about it – and in return, the establishment will put some judges on the bench who supposedly will protect your rights to freedom of worship, to freedom of exercise. That’s what we’ve told for years now..I question how judges who will hold to this philosophy end up on the bench. I question the bargain that people of faith have been asked to hold to for all these years.” [Greenhouse, “Justice on the Brink”]

2] “Christian nationalist preacher and Trump acolyte Robert Jeffress discussed the case [Roe] on Fox News, explaining “the deal”: “We’re gonna see now what the justices do and if they uphold their part of the deal.” Trump and McConnell put Barrett on the court, and the court and the court finally ends Roe. That was the deal.” [Seidel: “American Crusade”]

ANY questions so far? You understand “the deal”; understand “the script”?????????

3] Damn Linker: “The Theocons”: Richard J. Neuhaus, far more than evangelicals, “Catholics are uniquely posed”..to transform the late 20th century into ‘the Catholic Moment.’…time had come for the church to assume “its rightful role in the culture-forming task of constructing a religiously informed public philosophy for the American experiment in ordered liberty.” Neuhaus and colleagues felt the Church provided a unifying agenda to transform the U.S. into a homogeneously traditionalist Catholic-Christian nation. If necessary, BY. FORCE.

4] “As Federalist Society cofounder Steven Calabresi said..the Federalist Society has “absolutely helped kept Justices such as Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Alito in check: When one tries to think about what kinds of checks exist on officials as powerful as Supreme Court Justices I think the check of criticism by law schools, journalists, and conservative think tanks like the Federalist Society, criticism from those quarters is something they notice.” [Hollis-Brusky; “Ideas With Consequences”]

***”You seem..to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so.” [Thomas Jefferson, 1820]

5] “Hobby Lobby”: “For the first time in American history, the Court held..a for-profit employer may cite its owner’s religious beliefs in order to diminish the rights of its employees. And it ddid so by ignoring the limited goals Congress intended to accomplish when it enacted RFRA.” [Millhiser: “Injustices”]

6] “What is striking about..recent decisions of the Roberts Court..is how they have interpreted statutes to protect business in a way that undermines Congress’s purpose..This Court’s pro-business orientation has been at the expense of consumers, employees, and patients..this is also evident in the Roberts Court’s recent decisions regarding arbitration and class action suits and its employment discrimination rulings.” [Chemerinsky: “The Case Against the Supreme Court”]

7] Wal-Mart v. Dukes: “The Court came to this conclusion despite the fact..the plaintiffs presented a great deal of evidence to show..Walmart had company-wide practices and policies that caused sex discrimination..statistical studies..expert witnesses..large number of affidavits..” [Chemerinsky: “Case Against the Supreme Court’}

8] “What is striking about..especially the Roberts Court, is that it has systematically made it more difficult for people to sue the government when it acts wrongly..for money damages..much harder for those facing injury from government unconstitutional actions to get an injunction to stop such conduct.” [Chemerinsky: “Case Against Supreme Court”]

9] “..two projects which Roberts..was making steady progress..One involved race, the other religion. Roberts’ long-term plan was to change how the Constitution understood both..the project involved..weaponizing the Constitution’s Free Exercise Clause, turning it from its historic role as a shield that protected believers from government interference into a sword that vaulted believers into a position of privilege.” [Greenhouse: “Justice on the Brink”]

WHY does a “supreme court justice’ have ‘A PROJECT’????????????? Is “weaponizing” one part of the First Amendment against it companion clause. “good BEHAVIOR’???????????????/

10] “Since the Heller decision..reinterpreted the Second Amendment..the mounting frustration of Justices Thomas and Alito, who complained regularly..the court was turning the Second Amendment into a ‘second-class right’…..New York City repealed the ordinance, rendering the case moot..but..Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch did not want to let the case go. It was simply too inviting a vehicle..” [Greenhouse: Justice on the Brink”]

“..too inviting a vehicle..” for WHAT? WHY do “justices’ look for “a vehicle”???????????????????

11] “..the court has shown its intensions in both the cases it selects and the broad decisions it reaches. ‘This term has revealed the court to be in a hurry to tick off the Republican Party’s policy goals – especially the ones they’re unable to enact in the political process’, the justices “seem to be bending over backwards to address their pet issues.'” G. Epps; November/December, 2022 Washington Monthly: “The Court’s Third Great Crisis”]

“..in a hurry to tick off Republican Party goals” – does this fit under Article III’s REQUIREMENT for “good Behavior” for federal judges??? “addressing their pet issues”???????? Do judges operating under the REQUIREMENT of “good Behavior”. have “pet issues’ on the federal bench???????????????/

12] “..the picture as of June, 2018, was of a highly partisan majority eager to defer to even the most extravagant initiatives of the Trump Administration.” [Epps, “The Court’s Third Great Crisis”]

13] “The draft of Alito’s majority opinion overturning Roe..is right-wing Republican politics masquerading as law.” [Chemerinsky: “Brazenly political court shows it will..”; 5/8/22; Pioneer Press]

14]. Kagan said the court should not be “wandering around just inserting itself into every hot button issue in America” and it especially “shouldn’t be doing that in a way that reflects one ideology” or “one set of political values over another.”
[J.Gresko; “From left and right..”; 10/27/22; Assoc. Press]

“right-wing Republican politics masquerading as law” ????????????????????? [“good Behavior” ???]

15] in 4 years, the Trump Administration won 28 of 41 requests on the “shadow docket.” Only 8 such requests were filed in the previous 16 Bush and Obama years – won only 4. “By the end of Trump’s term, the “shadow docket” looked like collusion between Trump justices and the Trump Administration to advance the Crusade..Of all..entities that brought “shadow docket’ cases, only two groups won: the Trump Administration and churches.” [Seidel: “American Crusade”]

“shadow docket” PATTERN ‘looked like COLLUSION between Trump ‘justices’ and Trump Administration – does THIS sound like “good Behavior” on the part of Article III observing “supreme court justices” ??????????????????/

16] “The Missouri ministry decision weaponized religious freedom. Roberts ignored procedure to decide a collusive case: ignored..facts to pretend..a religious ministry was not a religious ministry, while still claiming religious freedom as the central rationale..focused only on the rights of these church going Christians to the exclusion of every other American.” [Seidel: “American Crusade”]

Wow!!! Did YOU have to read that twice [or more] to untangle the Roberts “logic’ [let alone “legal principles !!!]. Does this seem to follow “good Behavior”??? Is it “good Behavior” for a judge to give one group of Americans a privileged status over the rest of the innocent victims. – YOU ???

17]. “Bostock” [2020]: “Gorsuch left the gate open for the Crusaders. He even drew their attention to it; “employers in other cases may raise free exercise [of religion] arguments that merit careful consideration.” [Seidel: “American Crusade”]

!!!!!!!!!!!!! is dropping hints about cases that could be sent for favorable results – for privileged people/groups – “good Behavior” ???????????

18] The 2011-2017 Supreme Court “dismantled much..campaign finance, weakened voting rights, created new religious liberty doctrines.” [Millhiser: “The Agenda”]

19] Supreme Court shifting power to itself: “remaking American law” [“The Agenda”] See: “Amassing of Power By Supreme Court Alarms Scholars,” Adam Liptak; 12/20/22 New York Times: “..the current court..has been rapidly accumulating power at the expense of every other part of the government.” See: “A Court of First Resort? [Jamelle Boule; 12/11/22 New York Times]: “”The court. Lemley writes, ‘has taken significant, simultaneous steps to restrict the power of Congress, the administrative state, the states and lower federal courts..by undercutting the ability of any entity to do something the justices don’t like.'”

*****”The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
[James Madison, Federalist #47]

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