I am upset, but not entirely surprised, by the decisions that came out of the Supreme Court today. To paraphrase a saying about Jewish law, where there is a judicial will, there is a legal way. A majority of the Supreme Court is A-OK with the Republican slide towards fascism, so they will find a legal way, however crudely and illogically and inconsistently argued, to make it happen. And so we have an executive order that is completely inspired by religious bigotry being declared constitutionally acceptable—because the third revision had scrupulously neutral language—and using the overruling of
Korematsu as justification!
When this presidency started, I was alarmed at the regulatory/executive and judicial mischief that it promised. What I was not prepared for, and what gives me increasing agony, is the deep and blatant racism and bigotry that it has made publicly acceptable.
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