Sunday, July 07, 2024

🔥 Week

The end (which doesn’t show up here) is the interesting bit:
The bottom line is that once again it is evident that the constitution is not capable of protecting the country from someone as pathological as Trump.
And clocks don’t tell time and books can’t read themselves and interpretation is really the only claim we have to knowledge.

The Constitution is not a being that works like a trained dog or an educated lawyer. It can only do what we say it does. Why does the VRA not implement the 15th amendment? Because John Roberts said it doesn’t. Why are Supreme Court justices appointed for life? Because they said so. That’s not in the constitution, or arguably even conceived there. The phrase is “hold their offices during good behavior,” which more reasonably means “not removed for political purposes, but has been interpreted to mean “until death do us part” for the Supreme Court Justices. Oddly, the Constitution hasn’t pushed back against that reading.

Nothing is capable of saving the country from anyone except we, the people.
Not, for emphasis, “we, the pundits and journalists:”

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