Never in our history has there been so corrupt a court as the Robert’s “court”!
It appears Republicans are no longer even feigning their allegiance to the Constitution and the rule of law. The party that once heralded themselves as the party of “Law & Order” must have mean the TV show and not the concept of true and fair “Justice”. Nowhere is this more evident than the political operatives on the court impersonating “judges”; most notably Clarence “The Clown” Thomas, Sam “The Sham” Alito, and Brett “Beer Boy” Cavanaugh. These three miscreants are as corrupt as the “Boss Tweed” impersonator-with-a-bad-combover, the thirty-four-time convicted felon, adjudicated sexual predator, and undoubtedly the stupidest and most corrupt individual to ever occupy the White House. They have brough shame and dishonor to this once great house of liberty.
If there was ever anyone or anything that intentionally damaged our democracy and Constitutional rights more than this “court”; gutting citizens voting rights, flooding the political arena with dirty, untraceable money (the kind they enjoy the most), stripping away women’s rights to legitimate healthcare after they testified Roe to be “stare decisis” or settled law, then I don’t know who or what that would be. This “court” is not a court, per se; they are not “judges” in any real sense, but political operatives dressed up as “judges” for the sole purpose of facilitating the most egregious loss of the people’s right in American history. Their “legal opinions” have flooded our streets with unimaginable amounts of the most dangerous firearms ever conceived and tilted the political playing field with the misguided and falsely synthesized concept of political fairness and literally polluted the political processes with all the dark money any billionaire or corporate lobbyists could possibly ever wish for! And they’ll continue doing such things until they are stopped and the only way to stop this debilitating process is to remove these fraudsters from the court as soon as possible.
If there is one thing that we need to do as Americans, as citizens of a once-great country singularly diminished by their corrupt and ill-conceived opinions, it is the impeachment, investigation, and prosecution of each one of these chiselers and the entry of their names and reputations along with that of their mob-boss in the White House into the trash heap of history.
If we are to save our country, the great Democratic-experiment known as the United States of America, there is no more important task ahead of us than this. We must act with haste and rigorous diligence towards the return of fairness and the salvaging of true justice in America.
Don’t forget the “POTUS has absolute immunity” farce. That they even entertained it shows how low they have gone. Ruling in favor was just icing on the corruption cake.
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Yes! How I overlooked that one I’ll never know! My question is if the president is engaged in the commission of a crime – as he so very frequently is – can he pardon those that were complicit in that crime when he himself was involved? I think that decision by the court is going to become a huge issue when the Fat Orange Felon leaves office. Thanks for your comment!
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Dear RaPaR and thespartanatheist,
I have thoroughly savoured perusing this excellent post regarding the SCOTUS being “The True Enemy of the American People & American Democracy”, and have therefore come to join you in reflecting on the significance of the post here in relation to the impacts of judicial corruption. The use of highly critical language and pejorative nicknames for Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh as well as President Donald Trump reflects a highly polarized public debate regarding the institutional integrity and neutrality of the US judiciary.
Perspectives on Judicial Ethics and Rulings
The ongoing debate concerning the Supreme Court involves distinct viewpoints from critics, legal scholars and defenders:
Arguments from Critics:
Ethical Concerns: Legal analysts and investigative reports such as those published by ProPublica have highlighted undisclosed gifts, luxury travel and real estate transactions involving members of the court, arguing these actions undermine public trust.
Precedent and Partisanship: Critics contend that major rulings such as the reversal of Roe vs Wade and decisions regarding executive immunity demonstrate a shift away from established legal precedent (stare decisis) towards partisan political outcomes.
Calls for Reform: Democratic lawmakers and judicial reform advocacy groups frequently propose measures such as enforceable ethics codes, term limits or expanding the number of seats on the court to address perceived imbalances.
Arguments from Defenders:
Judicial Philosophy: Supporters and conservative legal organizations such as the Federalist Society argue that the conservative majority acts independently, adhering closely to originalist and textualist interpretations of the US Constitution.
Institutional Independence: Defenders maintain that the justices operate with personal and professional integrity, asserting that decisions are based on legal merit rather than political allegiance or external pressure.
Protection of Legitimacy: Republican lawmakers and conservative commentators argue that intense public criticism and proposals for structural court reform are politically motivated efforts designed to delegitimize the judiciary when rulings do not align with specific legislative agendas.
Consequently, we must find the strength to keep moving forward in a system that feels completely broken. I shall do so as follows:
Some of us share many similar concerns for composing posts involving thorough examinations of some of the most salient issues that have led the USA to this moment in time. Needless to say, due to misinformation and disinformation as well as the pandemic and other global issues, 2016 to 2026 have been very difficult and trying, not to mention having to deal with the pandemic. It was all quite surreal, perhaps in some ways more bizarre than ghosts and the paranormal (not that I believe in such things). One could indeed say that we live in interesting times, but often for the wrong reasons. It is all quite a big mess in danger of getting bigger still. Even a global pandemic and an insurrection at the citadel of democracy still cannot unite folks in the USA and wake them up. Perhaps it will take an even bigger crisis to do so, such as a series of shocking events or climate change disasters.
You and I are definitely on the same page. We now find ourselves here having to face the state of mounting chaos and even fascism in the USA, a country that seems to be imploding, and its cancer has metathesized even more, both within and without!
There is an important piece of work that sheds light on the sorry and sordid state of the US democracy and partisan politics marred by disinformation and corruption. Published on 13 March 2025 and entitled “A Movement to Destroy U.S. Democracy Controls the Presidency, Congress, and the Supreme Court—But What’s Behind It?“, this is a great article from Religion Dispatches, which “is a publication of Political Research Associates, a social justice research and strategy centre that has been researching, monitoring, and publicizing the agenda and strategies of the U.S. and global Right for over four decades.” I very much concur with the author Katherine Stewart, and I am very impressed by how well and detailed she has described some of the issues. I would like to add some of my own observations and analyses.
The “disease” of the corrupt is spreading far and wide. Rather than the “Bloody Immigrants” as scapegoats, it is actually the bloody plutocrats and their ill-informed supporters, and the matter is much more than a backlash against globalization. There is also the ongoing Christian institutions’ war on knowledge and alignment with power. Some factions of Christianity have even evolved into clerical fascism (also called clero-fascism or clerico-fascism), which is an ideology that combines the political and economic doctrines of fascism with clericalism. For instance, the Silver Legion of America (also known as the Silver Shirts) in the United States led by William Dudley Pelley has combined American Christianity (specifically Protestantism) with American white nationalism.
Indeed, there are numerous compelling and irrefutable reasons as to why there is no justification in supporting such corrupted Christian organizations and their doctrines, whose leaders and followers have aligned themselves with the likes of Trump, and by extension, other corrupt entities, including Putin and numerous wretched rulers, politicians, plutocrats, autocrats, officials and corporations. Sadly, many of those who are supposedly more morally or spiritually attuned to the wise and virtuous seem to have fared even worse, given that a large percentage of Trump’s supporters have been disproportionately Christians. So much for Christianity being the guiding conscience and ultimate salvation!
The blame game is still very much rampant in Homo sapiens, which has firmly ushered in an apocalyptic age of deplorable politics, outright complicity, devious duplicity, shameless mendacity, excruciating inhumanity, extraordinary brutality and unrelenting cruelty! Considering the countless wretched situations and dire outcomes that humans have repeatedly created for themselves and nonhumans through war crimes, holocausts, slaveries, genocides, environmental destructions and ecological disasters plus a litany of gross injustices, unconscionable exploitations and staggering corruptions, any reasonable person may insist or conclude that there is emphatically no longer the need, excuse or justification to blame the old serpent, Devil or Satan, who can permanently retire from being the stigmatized scapegoat, catch-all villain and evil incarnate.
On the whole, how shocking and deplorable it has been that despite these staggering number of reasons and overwhelming evidences against Trump, he has still become the President for the second time as a convicted felon!
The salient issues of democracy versus autocracy (and plutocracy) aside, there are many sobering implications of authoritarianism, which is a very topical area for exploring the many outstanding tensions between (the sociopsychological states of) sanity/stability and insanity/instability, affecting even the very existence and survival of humanity. In recent years, many citizens have willingly aligned themselves with misinformation, disinformation, post-truth politics, demagoguery, plutocracy, oligarchy, ochlocracy, kleptocracy, kakistocracy, narcissistic leadership, neoliberalism, globalization, clerical fascism and Trumpism. We can also agree that the ongoing chaos inflicted by the Trump presidency finally culminated in the infamous riot at the Capitol. You and I can be justified for being cynical, snide, snarky and facetious in characterizing Trump as the symbolic messiah who is going to lead his misguided supporters, sycophants and funders to glory on Earth and the promised land! It is often futile to reason with such misguided folks. Perhaps only when the country truly becomes autocratic or fascist, or when it plunges into a civil war, will such folks wake up, but then it will be too late. Consequently, any reasonable person can conclude that the USA has been plagued by ignorance, dogma, falsity, blind faith, spiritual stagnation and epistemological impasse . . . . .
I have continued to shed light on the grim reality of blatant corruption, continued carnage, calamitous inhumanity and unrelenting brutality, as evidenced by some dreadful statistics pertaining to Ukraine and Palestine as well as other regions in dire conflict. For instance, of all major Arab-Israeli conflicts assessable with calculated percentage of fatalities for each war, the deadliest is the 2023 Gaza War, which amounts for almost half of all casualties. The plights of those suffering people have been so immense and protracted that I have not enough tears to cry for them. They are so searingly painful to witness! For some of us, it can be too emotionally distraught to witness such tragedies and annihilations. We have heard the phrase “Never again!” being uttered after each major war, and yet tragic history keeps repeating itself. It is all getting to the point of “Never say never again!”
To make matter worse, even those who are supposed to know better, who are in the most privileged position or at the highest echelon, have displayed objectionable conducts, caused much disunity, and/or generated unwisdom. We have been witnessing so clearly the insidious nature of Trumpism, Machiavellian conservatism and inimical illiberalism perverting democracy for nefarious purposes and for justifying, obfuscating or muddying the waters of systemic sexism, racism, historical negationism, discrimination, marginalization and curtailment of civil rights. In a similar vein, one of my latest posts highlights not just the various traps awaiting us from the fallouts of the main event regarding the SCOTUS’ decisions on abortion and its striking down Roe v. Wade, but also how the capacity of laws and legislation to be legally valid, binding and enforceable in different contexts is both contingent (acceptable only if certain circumstances are the case) and circumscribed (restricted to certain roles or situations), given that the content, relevance and quality of laws and legislation are fundamentally filtered and moulded by class structures, social stratifications, cultural reproductions and communication frameworks as well as by the interaction between legal cultures, and the social construction of legal issues, as discussed in my post entitled “🏛️⚖️ The Facile and Labile Nature of Law: Beyond the Supreme Court and Its Ruling on Controversial Matters 🗽🗳️🔫🤰🧑🤝🧑💉“, which you are very welcome to read. It is published at
I would be very delighted if you could be so kind as to bestow on me the honour of your visiting and commenting on my said post by submitting your feedback or critique to the comments section there, as I treasure your inputs and insights. Most of all, I am intensely curious about what you will make of my post. Thank you in anticipation.
Yours sincerely,
SoundEagle🦅ೋღஜஇ 音鷹
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I am in the process of reading your response and the associated articles as well. I will be back in a few days to respond after I review the articles. Thank you for your very interesting reply! RaPaR
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Dear RaPaR,
About half an hour ago, I submitted a very long comment here. I hope that you have received it.
Yours sincerely,
SoundEagle🦅
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