April 24, 2024
Another in a series of observations of life as I know it.
History shows that the Supreme Court can act quickly when necessary. And the court should fashion its decision in a way that does not lead to further time-consuming appeals on presidential immunity. It cannot be that a president of the United States can attempt to steal an election and seize power but our justice system is incapable of bringing him to trial before the next election four years later.
-Liz Cheney
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If you wish to keep what remains of your fragile sanity, do not read (or watch) the news before 6am. Why so early, Jane? The short answer is, I have dogs, for whom the Spring sun is an alarm clock. By June, the sky will be fully incandescent by 4:30am. Hence, I am up with the birds and the dogs by 5:30on any given day.
Anyway, my pre dawn hours make for a perfect cocktail of teeth gnashing and migraines. I really do need to find a better way to greet the day. So today’s bruising journalism caught my somewhat sleep occluded eyes. Two things in fact. The first left me breathless. Tennessee in its infinite wisdom, has sent a bill to its governor that states that teachers, administrators and staff in public schools may, in fact should, carry concealed weapons. According to the paperwork, only the principal will know who is packing heat. I can only infer from this shell game approach that rogue gunmen will be left guessing as to whether the science teacher has a Smith and Wesson in his pocket. Or perhaps the school nurse. The targets have now become the targeters. Is that a word? Well, you take my meaning. Schools in Memphis, Chattanooga and Nashville have the potential to become lethal paintball games, with both the good guys and bad guys picking off the other.
Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ on a raft!
The other tidbit of news, which frankly isn’t new at all, is SCOTUS. That rank cabal of nine political jurists wearing kangaroo suits. None of whom know how to read a clock or a calendar. Tik tik tik. If the DC 9 doesn’t hear and rule on presidential immunity by April 30, then well, it’s game over. Let’s be abundantly clear. The Constitution has frozen the record on immunity in amber. Even old Clarence has commented in a previous ruling on the absolute nature of presidential immunity. There is none. Thomas is one of the dithering “originalists” who read the Constitution from an 18th century perspective. That is, if it was true in 1799, it must apply now. Which is why women do not fit into the scheme of things, both then and now. But the Constitution is crystal clear on immunity. Why? The framers had all suffered under a monarch who believed in the divine right of kings. Here in the good old US of A, we have no regents, no regnum. No Rex. No one is above the law.
But time frittered away solves all ills. By throwing away the clocks, SCOTUS is making a definitive ruling. It won’t decide on immunity before the election. The issue then is rendered null and void. What a fine mess. What a ship of fools. Liz Cheney has thrown down the gauntlet to Chief Justice Roberts. Make the decision now or suffer the slings and arrows of national outrage. Or as Nike might add, Just Do It. It’s a fifty-fifty chance if you’re a betting person. This renegade court, packed by a presidential lunatic, will ruin us. Burning their constitutional bible in the process. The King cometh. Long live the King! Or put another way, Dred Scott lives.
Caption: immunity notwithstanding, would you elect this man?
NEVER, ever, ever!!!