5 Males on the As soon as Supreme Courtroom Embarrass Themselves Anew

One lawyer known as it a “darkish day” for the rule of legislation. One other known as it an “embarrassment.” One other steered that we transfer the Supreme Courtroom to the RNC Headquarters as a result of that’s whom SCOTUS is now serving.   

One justice, overcome together with his personal significance, proclaimed that they had been destined to put in writing an opinion for the ages. One other, the identical one who invoked two witch-burning legal professionals from 17^th-century England to assist the choice he wrote that killed Roe v. Wade, was apprehensive that presidents of the long run may begin a coup if they didn’t have extra immunity. 

However like his brethren, he ignored the case in entrance of them, that of the earlier president who truly did launch a coup in opposition to the federal government. That coup killed 7 folks, together with police defending the Capitol from rioters chanting “kill the vice chairman” whereas threatening all legislation makers. The primary such effort to disclaim a peaceable transition of energy in 248 years of our nation.  

Not content material with wrecking many ladies’s lives by demanding that 10-year-olds victims of rape and incest carry their fetus to time period; not content material with sadistically threatening the lives of ladies with sophisticated pregnancies, the identical gang is now keen to finish the Structure as we all know it. 

They search to introduce a phrase—“immunity” for presidents—that isn’t discovered within the Structure. (Beforehand they argued that the phrase “abortion” will not be within the Structure.)

Solely two hours and 24 minutes into the proceedings was the problem at hand talked about. To her credit score, it got here from Justice Barrett: “The particular counsel has expressed some concern for pace and wanting to maneuver ahead.” 

Is all of the preening self-adulation of the adolescent male judges merely a smokescreen to disclaim voters the fitting to see earlier than they vote, all of the proof gathered on a former president who staged a coup? 

Are these so-called judges intentionally denying voters entry to information {that a} trial would reveal, about whether or not to return that president to workplace?

One answer to this sordid courtroom beckons us: Vote this fall and get others to vote, to elect representatives dedicated to democracy and rule of legislation and a brand new Supreme Courtroom (an expanded one if obligatory). 

Despair is a luxurious. Work is a necessity.  

To be continued.

See Matthew Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Reworking Evil in Soul and Society.

To learn the transcript of Matthew Fox’s video meditation, click on HERE.

Banner Picture: Element of the primary web page of the USA Structure. Public area. Wikimedia Commons. 

Queries for Contemplation

What are your reflections and responses to the Supreme Courtroom occasion about presidential immunity final Thursday? How do you see it affecting your vote and your need to help others to vote subsequent November?

Beneficial Studying

Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Reworking Evil in Soul and Society

Visionary theologian and best-selling writer Matthew Fox gives a brand new theology of evil that essentially adjustments the standard notion of excellent and evil and factors the best way to a extra enlightened remedy of ourselves, each other, and all of nature. In evaluating the Japanese custom of the 7 chakras to the Western custom of the 7 capital sins, Fox permits us to assume creatively about our capability for private and institutional evil and what we are able to do about them. 
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a greater imaginative and prescient and depth of notion far past the grasp of anybody single science.  A breath-taking evaluation.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, writer of Quantum Theology: Religious Implications of the New Physics