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K “They . . . are . . . back.”
J “And now a majority does not have our back.”
K “They are now poised to foist the burdens of existence on the backs of the common man.”
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J “That is the common thread. They are all by-products of the S.I.C.”
K “We need different products, by and by.”
J “The common thread is that they responded to or rejected the conventional doctrine at the same narrow-minded indoctrinating institutions of the Schooling Industrial Complex (SIC).”
K “What no one seems to get because no one seems to know and no one seems to care is that scrounging up Supreme Court Justices from the pool of Federal Appellate Court Judges is drawing the worst from the worst.”
J “I agree. But no one knows and no one cares.”
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K “Gorsuch may be a phenotypic Episcopalian, but he is at core a genotypic Catholic. Thomas acquired deep scars on his journey to ‘Whitehood’ and acceptance and is also a congenital Catholic. Breyer is intellectually female. Sotomayor is a secular Jew. The chasm between the five red rich Republican ‘Catholic’ corporatist ‘white’ boys and the four blue comfortable Democratic ‘Jewish’ individualist white ‘girls’ on the Supreme Court is stark and unprecedented in American history.”
J “The country believed that it needed to get over and move beyond a debate that arose around Kennedy and his Catholicism that now cannot be raised or even intimated.”
K “John not Tony.”
J “John and Tony. A person simply cannot pledge fealty and loyalty to Rome and to the U.S. Constitution. Period.”
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K “To describe it as a war between those who want to ‘Immanentize The Eschaton’ and those who do not want to let others ‘Immanentize The Eschaton’ is too blatant for polite company. Better to be more discrete and intimate that a group of five is quietly and surreptitiously imposing its religion as the national religion in America.”
J “What troubles me is that the ‘Immanentize The Eschaton’ wing of the Catholics did not get a foot hold or even one lobbyist on the Court.”
K “What if the Court granted the current Pope the right to file an amicus curiae brief in every case? The current Pope is a member of the ‘Immanentize The Eschaton’ wing. Would the Supremes be obligated to listen? To follow without question or hesitation? That may not be so bad.”
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K “The Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology is to be announced today. In the next few decades, the person who proves that an individual is born with the ‘I’ Gene or with the ‘We’ Gene may receive a much deserved Nobel. At heart, 4.5 Justices have the ‘I’ Gene and 4.5 Justices have the ‘We’ Gene. Kennedy may still have a heart and a soul and a recessive ‘We’ Gene.”
J “Tony not John. The helicopter beanie folks are developing AI (Artificial Intelligence). They may need to develop AI (Artificial Ignorance) to substitute for the poor decisions and worse judgment of the judges and justices in America. That is more of a challenge than anyone has contemplated.”
K “A typical judge pays attention to a high profile case, dismisses the other cases and goes home. The naïve engineers may not recognize that reality and instead create a sophisticated Digital Decision Device (DDD) that marshals the facts, discerns the law, finds truth, and does justice.”
J “Unprecedented. One can only hope.”
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K “The Supremes are deciding whether we live in a democracy or an oligopoly/kleptocracy in the context of a scam named after Governor Gerry. The majority on the court owes their jobs to a broken political system and is not likely to fix it.”
J “The privacy issues turn on whether each Justice personally feels threatened by the changes brought by technology not whether the ordinary person is threatened.”
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K “The nascent thought is growing that the Supremes lack legitimacy and accountability in America. Only the power they exercise that derives from the sword and purse maintains their dominion and domination.”
J “They have transformed into a lobbying institution on First Street rather than on K Street with the disturbing ability to send out storm troopers to enforce their edicts.”
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[See the e-commentary at “The ‘I’ Gene; The ‘We’ Gene: Searching For The Genie In All Of Us (April 3, 2017)”, “Immanentizing The Eschaton: Your Supreme Court And The Great Religious War (October 7, 2013)”, “Adjunktification” In The S.I.C. (Schooling Industrial Complex) (March 13, 2017)”, “One Gun Per White Adult Male? A Flintlock Musket? The “One Man, One Gun” Decision (October 4, 2010)”, “Are Courts Irrelevant? Are Courts Illegitimate? (October 3, 2011)” and “The Supreme Court – Unrepresentative And Illegitimate: The 33.3 Percent Solution (October 1, 2012) and the “First Monday In October” e-commentary in 2014, 2015 and 2016.]
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There is no law; there is only ideology
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