U.S. Supreme Court
By Raleigh Perry
BUFORD, Ga. | Our government is set up on checks and balances, supposedly. But consider: at this point there are no rules, per se, controlling the ethics and morals of members of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). Recent allegations show that two justices, and maybe more, might have at least violated ethical rules that cause their positions to be in question in not just one or two cases, but in a number of their rulings.
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The most egregious concerns Justice Clarence Thomas. Yes, a Georgian by birth.
What can be done about these so-called “indiscretions,” which seem far more serious than at first blush?
So far, little has happened. It seems that all of Congress knows that something is wrong at SCOTUS, but no one comes forward to do anything about it. That makes our Congress a serious part of the problem.
One solution more immediately would be for the president to direct his attorney general to look into the Court, for possible indictments. The President could also suggest an ethical code for the Congress to pass.
Or another possibility: let us say that the next Senate is Democratic and so is the House. I think that supposition is realistic. Let us then say that the new House and Senate pass a law on the ethics of SCOTUS. But it’s possible that if it did not go to the amendment category, the Supreme Court would simply throw this new law out.
If, however, it was proposed as an amendment, then it goes to the states and that would well take a long time to come into law. There is no guarantee that it would actually become an amendment. Remember, the Equal Rights Amendment did not make it.
I think that there is a chance that many states that are now Republican might flip because of things like Roe v. Wade and a variety of associated state laws on abortion. After all, women vote massively for such changes.
An amendment would require two-thirds of the states to vote for it. And that would mean either 34 of the states would be needed. That is a very slow process and it would possibly be that all of the miscreants would be dead before it became law. But there is a chance.
It might be easier to go after the billionaire who is footing all of Thomas’ bills, plus the law firms that have fallen under Justice Neil Gorsuch for trying to influence a judge’s vote.
For more information on this topic, go to Google News and Yahoo news. You will find info there about all of the sins of the Supreme Court Justices back to 1991. Impropriety does not seem to count for SCOTUS.
If a Democratic majority were elected in both the House and Senate this government can get back to work in a positive way. I think that Trump might not win the Presidency back because voters that have been polled have not taken the elephant in the room, abortion, into consideration. Add to this the fact that more women vote than men.
Inflation seems no longer an issue, sitting now in the 3+ percent range now. Prices will begin to drop but perhaps not as fast as a lot want.
But, the election come what may, we need to focus on ethical and moral standards for SCOTUS.
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