First Monday And “Patient One” (October 5, 2020)
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K “Are there gradations of illegitimacy?”
J “Is the Supreme Court just quasi-illegitimate and semi-unrepresentative?”
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K “I gather that he becomes ‘Patient One’ and gets transported by ‘Marine Corps One’ to ‘Bed One’ for scrutiny by dozens and dozens of doctors.”
J “Certainly more than one. If you or I had presented with his symptoms, we would have been sent packing back home thus killing precious time to make a more careful diagnosis and treatment.”
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K “In the age of vicious irony, her introduction in the Oval Office to the powers that should not be may have turned into a superspreader event.”
J “Moving from outside in the Rose Garden to inside in the Oval Office may have done it. No is speaking candidly who really knows his condition and the medical cocktail he is consuming. The age of vicious irony is also the age of calculated ignorance.”
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K “The Court that may soon have 6.75 Catholics, with 5.75 solidly united in not allowing others to ‘immanentize the eschaton’ and one committed to allowing others to ‘immanentize the eschaton’ in this life.”
J “And two other souls who also want others to be able to ‘immanentize the eschaton’ in this life. The Court theoretically could be more unrepresentative but not much more unrepresentative.”
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K “What so many good folks fail to realize is that Trumpi is effectively packing the Court for the corporations. A Court that went from the ‘Kennedy Court’ for years to the ‘Roberts Court’ for months is now becoming the ‘Trumpi Court’ for decades with his three picks in three years.”
J “A Court named not after a justice but someone outside the Court who was always outside the law. Trumpi aspired successfully to achieve injustice by breaking the law in a legal system that allows the rich to break the law.”
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J “The controlling Corporatists on the Court hold opinions and values that do not represent the rest of the public pack in America.”
K “If the opportunity presents, we the unrepresented pack should seriously consider packing the court and sending them packing. Try to bring that topic up with others and you quickly discover that most folk’s Overton Window is the size of a side door peep hole.”
J “Roberts sealed the front doors of the Court for the little people years ago and Trump is nailing them shut for two generations.”
K “RBG opened doors for women and girls. ACB will close doors for women and girls.”
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[See the e-commentary under the Categories “First Monday In October” and the “Supreme Court”.]
Bumper sticker of the week:
RBG opened doors for women and girls. ACB will close doors for women and girls.
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