Hostility to Democracy within the Present Judiciary

We’re interacting with a lawyer who responded two days in the past within the Feedback part to my DM on “Dred Scott & SCOTUS Spreading Dread Throughout the Land.”

Kenneth Matheny warns us that one other court docket case coming this 12 months from SCOTUS might properly “enormously weaken federal companies that defend the environment, shoppers, and employees.”  He additionally tells us that not solely has he misplaced respect for the federal courts, however “I’m additionally ashamed to even admit that I’m a lawyer (fortunately retired).”

Once more, an sincere confession concerning the decline and demise of professions in our time that appear to have misplaced the rationale why they exist, the potential for good they’ll do on this planet in addition to an consciousness of the evil that may be perpetrated by them.  A lack of morality and ethics and objective. 

To resume our professions, we should critique the tutorial programs– together with the our bodies that accredit them–for what’s and isn’t lacking inside the coaching of our skilled our bodies.  I’ve regularly stated that January 6 was a report card on the American instructional system—and that it will get an F. 

There was a time when there was a fundamental worth system that marked the mythos of our nation however that appears to have been banished from schooling at present.

Says Matheny, A lot of our present federal judiciary is hostile to democracy.  That’s not an opinion.   It’s a reality.  It’s why they gutted the Voting Rights Act.  Strike quantity three from the Roberts court docket–Sure, they’ve gutted the Voting Rights Act.

They’ve created a path to secret slush funds for darkish cash by their Residents United debacle and within the course of elevated billionaires just like the Koch brothers and others to extraordinary affect on our political and judicial resolution making. 

And naturally, the outsized affect of Opus Dei and its many enablers comparable to Leonard Leo and his billionaire buddies and his nominees for court docket judges, all in its fascist spirit.  Thus Oligarchy, not democracy, guidelines.

However Matheney assures us that “all isn’t misplaced.”  Which we’ll discover in upcoming DM’s.  

To be continued.

See Matthew Fox, The Reinvention of Work: A New Imaginative and prescient of Livelihood For Our Time.

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

Banner Picture: Marchers with indicators on the March on Washington, 1963. Unique black and white detrimental by Marion S. Trikosko, taken August twenty eighth, 1963, Washington D.C, United States. Colorized by Jordan J. Lloyd. Library of Congress Prints and Pictures Division. Uploaded to Unsplash by Unseen Histories on Unsplash.

Why do you suppose SCOTUS “gutted the Voting Rights Act”?  What distinction does that make in our lives?  And our democracy?  And our upcoming election?  And our souls?

Really helpful Studying

The Reinvention of Work: A New Imaginative and prescient of Livelihood For Our Time

Thomas Aquinas stated, “To stay properly is to work properly,” and on this daring name for the revitalization of day by day work, Fox shares his imaginative and prescient of a world the place our private {and professional} lives are celebrated in concord–a world the place the self isn’t sacrificed for a job however is sanctified by genuine “soul work.”
“Fox approaches the extent of poetry in describing the reciprocity that have to be current between one’s inside and outer work…[A]n essential street map to social change.” ~~ Nationwide Catholic Reporter

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 basically modifications the standard notion of excellent and evil and factors the best way to a extra enlightened therapy 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 suppose 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