Elaine Meinel Supkis
Now it turns out our Supreme Court is the Supine Court. The far right wingers there are now refusing to hear any cases so they simply aren't going to sit in court! Charming. It is pointless to have a Supreme Court since they and Bush and the previous GOPredator Congress jointly tore up and burned the Constitution anyway. Free Padilla!
As its caseload lightens dramatically, some critics say that the Supreme Court of the United States is losing its relevance, The New York Times reports on its Thursday front page."On the Supreme Court's color-coded master calendar, distributed months before the term began on the first Monday in October, Dec. 6 is marked in red to signify a day when the justices are scheduled to be on the bench, hearing arguments," writes Linda Greenhouse. "The courtroom, however, was empty, and for a simple reason: The court was out of cases. The question is, where have all the cases gone?"
During his confirmation hearings, now-Chief Justice John Roberts said he felt there would plenty of cases for the Court to consider, but "that has not happened," Greenhouse says. "The court has taken about 40 percent fewer cases so far this term than last," she writes, and it "now faces noticeable gaps in its calendar."
Greenhouse denotes various reasons for the decline--fewer appeals, fewer statutes to interpret, less risk-taking by the justices--remarking that it is the "result of forces that have been developing for decades."
Impeach Roberts! Impeach Scalia and Thomas! Impeach all the Opus Dei conspiritors working for a former Nazi in the Vatican! The problem with America from day one has been the possibility that traitors could rise in power and then hand the keys of America over to terrorists and belligerent nations seeking to use us as their military base. And so it has happened.
The Constitution was set up to prevent that. Our Founding Fathers were understandably worried British subjects would betray the new nation to the benefit of the Kings and Queens of England. Previous to recent years, to become a citizen, one had to renounce all connections with former countries but the British and Israeli people settling here wanted to keep allegiance to their home states so they got 'dual citizenship' which is now growing massively as more and more people use the USA as a foreign base of operations.
Full citizens can betray us, too, by being so entangled overseas, they work for other entities. The Bush family financial affairs with the Saudi and British royals and the communist Chinese means they aren't working for America and if they want to get rich working for these entities, they can do so as private citizens but not as our leaders. DUH. Hell! It is obvious: all their political and economic choices advance the affairs of their business partners even if it destroys American citizens! Arrest Bush!
The Supreme Court has had several key right winger put on by both Bushes who are working in concert with kings and queens and a motley crew of communists (!!!!!) to destroy the Supreme Court and rip up the Constitution. Kings, Queens and motley crews of communists HATE Constitutions and so they are happy the Bush clan is destroying this pesky, very old Constitution.
This do-nothing Court wants all the craven laws passed by the Repugs and modified massivley by Bush, to stand as long as possible so people get accustomed to a life of slavery, imprisonment, no counting of votes and violations of our privacy!
None are more conscious of the vital limits on judicial authority than are the members of this Court, and none stand more in admiration of the Constitution’s design to leave the selection of the President to the people, through their legislatures, and to the political sphere. When contending parties invoke the process of the courts, however, it becomes our unsought responsibility to resolve the federal and constitutional issues the judicial system has been forced to confront.The judgment of the Supreme Court of Florida is reversed, and the case is remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.
The hour this was passed to the press which was 12 midnight, 12/12/00, an interesting mesh of numbers, these conspiritors who practice black magic under cover of the Catholic Church, caused me to go into an unfortunate fit where I wrote online: 'Thousands if not millions of people will die because of this ruling.'
And so it is. As always, alas, I am right.
&hearts Every day that Padilla languishes in prison, tortured, is a day America dies.
Robert ScheerRobert Scheer is editor of TruthDig, where this essay originally was published.
Jose Padilla, a US citizen, has been tortured by his own government for the better part of three-and-one-half years, suffering years of systematic sensory deprivation documented in his attorneys' filings and supported by photos of the prisoner published this week by the New York Times.
In that time, Padilla, who has been judged by professionals as mentally ill as a consequence of his brutal treatment, has been denied his Constitutional right to a fair and speedy trial and was permitted no legal representation for twenty-one months. The Bush Administration's excuse for this betrayal of our legal system was that Padilla was a dangerous Al Qaeda agent, a big fish caught in the Administration's successful pursuit of its much ballyhooed war on terror. In the words of then-US Attorney Gen. John Ashcroft, Padilla was "a known terrorist who was exploring a plan to build and explode a radiological dispersion device, or 'dirty bomb,' in the United States." Those lurid claims were abandoned when the government, faced with a belated US Supreme Court censure, finally charged Padilla with vague and lesser crimes carrying a maximum fifteen-year sentence.
Were this some isolated case of officially condoned sadism, say in a rural county jail, it could be minimized as an aberration. Instead, it is an all-too-accurate reflection of a presidential policy of dehumanizing anyone even suspected of being an enemy. The Times photos, taken from a government video, give evidence of a heavily manacled prisoner with masked eyes and muffled ears being walked down a corridor within a Navy brig, lending physical evidence to Padilla's lawyer's claims of a pattern of disorienting isolation. "There is nothing comparable in terms of severity of confinement, in terms of how Padilla was held, especially considering that this was pretrial confinement," Philip D. Cave, a former Navy judge advocate general, told the Times.
The lack of interest in rushing this case to the Supreme Court is a blot on America! This is a very fundamental case. The Supreme Court justices could push for it to be resolved as fast as possible, way back four years ago! Time is, in this case, of the essence. Do note how they rushed to stop the court-ordered Florida vote counting! They stayed over the Thanksgiving weekend in order to do this! Boy, were their KKK robes on fire!
But with this case? La-de-da! These evil traitors know perfectly well, the bedrock of our Constitutional rights lies in never being held without trial. SPEEDY is the word used by our Founding Fathers and this business is moving glacially and for NO DAMN REASON!
The sole reason they won't push this case to resolution is because there is no case! And this means not only is Padilla's torment unconstitutional and illegal, it is IMMORAL. And not only should the USA government pay him a huge indemnity, the people who tortured him should be ARRESTED.
So...arrest Bush, impeach the Supreme Court. Send all these evil people to Iraq. The Iraqis put Saddam on trial. They know how. So they know how to try these guys.
Why bother with all that impeachment codswallop? The Constitution says they can simply be removed. The endless arguments about the impeachment of supreme court justices are foolishness. The Constitution clearly states that supreme court justices may serve only during good behavior. The minute the House and Senate decree a Sense of Congress to the effect that a supreme court justice is ill-behaved, that justice is history. Sure, the entire supreme court would make a half-baked show of trying to review the situation. But the justices who allowed such a travesty to come before the court would be dispatched forthwith as well.
The supreme court justices have all solemnly sworn to protect the Constitution, and they willfully violated that solemn oath on the day they denied the presidency to Al Gore, and coroneted George W. Bush. Congress must stop this treason before it is too late.
Let the incestuous Federalist Society lawyers can cry all they want about how the honorable judges cannot be dislodged from their thrones because of the nature of their decisions, Everybody knows the checks and balances idea has been exploited beyond redemption.
So just remove them. While they are at it, Congress should make it illegal for judges and presidents to violate their oath of office, and ignore the spirit of the Constitution. Time to wake up and smell the coffee.
Posted by: blues | December 07, 2006 at 09:18 PM
At this rate, the chances of a military coup is very high and rising.
Posted by: Elaine Meinel Supkis | December 07, 2006 at 09:24 PM