By Raleigh Perry
BUFORD, Ga. | certainly have no heavy duty problem with a black female Court Justice. It is about time. The only problem that I have with her is that I am tired of Harvard and Yale educated members of the Supreme Court. There is not enough diversity on the court. Too much of the same does not necessarily get justice to everyone who comes before it. Congress is full of these single minded people also.
Perry
Two thirds of the present Supreme Court are Catholics but only 28 percent of the population of the U.S. is Catholic. (Almost 50 percent of our nation is Protestant.) The nation is also browning.
There has to be a balance somewhere. I guess that can only be accomplished by packing the court, something I am not against, or by putting religious quotas on those who become justices. Regardless, there can be no real balance at all. We should get closer, however, closer than we are.
Religion is creeping back, quickly, as Senator Lindsay Graham asked Judge Brown what her religions and Senator John Neely Kennedy of Louisiana asked a nominee of President Joe Biden’s if he believed in God. If both of them had their way, the Supreme Court would be nothing more than the College of Cardinals.
There is no wonder that a certain percentage of the American population feels left out. Roe v. Wade is a case in point. The basis of the people who want that stopped are the fundamentalist minority that is not even 26 percent of the nation’s population. The general population of the U.S., however, is for keeping Roe v. Wade but with a majority of the court being conservative Catholics, there is a high probability that Roe v. Wade will be overturned. That is what the 26 percent wants.
Regardless of the outcome of that case, there will be no cessation of abortions and it will not turn into a back alley business like it was before. If abortions are outlawed across the U.S., there are flights to a variety of places. But that would increase both cost and complicate matters.
My main point is that a minority of people may be getting the upper hand on this and other issues and a lot of these issues will end up before the Supreme Court.
There are more law schools than this country needs and some of them are incredible. I will not agree with Lindsey Graham on 99.9 percent of the things that he says, but President Biden missed a good opportunity to appoint a black judge who went to law school in South Carolina that could probably put a different twist to the Supreme Court. Why she was turned down, not even given the chance, we will never know.
That black female judge, you may remember, is J. Michelle Childs, who is the judge of the United States District Court for South Carolina. She has been to both the law schools at the University of South Carolina and Duke University. Does that mean that she knows less and the Harvard and Yale lawyers? Go figure.
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