A Light in Dark Corners??
Shame on those Three "Justices" who declined invitations to attend the Speech, by Pope Francis, before Congress ! It so happens, that they are the three who remain most viciously opposed to "Justice" for people who have been struggling to become Free and Equal Citizens since our Civil War: Thomas, Scalia, and Alito!! If there were any questions as to how the Justices "stack-up", from Hard Right to Hard Left, politically, this incident should shine significant light on the matter. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2015/0928/Did-Supreme-Court-Justices-boycott-Pope-Francis
Remember, it was a SCOTUS Decision, Dred Scott, in 1857, that set the stage for our Civil War; over the issue of the extension of Chattel Slavery. The Congress passed, and the States Ratified the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to our Constitution, to provide Rights and Freedoms for the former Slaves. The Congress, several Presidents, and Booker T. Washington, toiled to bring about JIM CROW; a system enacted to dismantle most of the provisions of those Amendments. SCOTUS supported JIM CROW, and indelibly scarred us all with definitions for Color Racism, in their Plessy v. Ferguson Decision, in 1896, Congress, in the heat and turmoil of the Assassinations of the 1960s. restored Voting Rights for the descendants of former Slaves. SCOTUS, the Roberts Court, "gutted" the Voting Rights Act, in 2013, by removing Legal Protections for Black Voters. The three Justices who declined to hear the POPE, were also those who, joined by Justices Kennedy and Roberts, "did that dirty deed"!.
Now we have it: Most Extreme: Thomas; assisted by Scalia, Alito, Roberts and Kennedy; in order from Hard Right, toward the political Middle. Least Extreme: Sotomayor, assisted by Kagan, Ginsburg, and Breyer, in order, from Hard Left toward the political Middle. Kennedy has been known to "swing"!!
Stay Vigilant! The Issues, that, we tell ourselves, were "settled" by the Civil War, are kept very much alive by Justice "T-Party" Thomas, and his cohorts on the Hard Right, in our Supreme Court!! As our country struggles to protect White Citizens who are terrified by Blacks, as always; as they also face impoverishment at the hands of FAT CATS (Trump??) -- get ready for a Nasty Future in these United States.
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