For the past 7.6 years, the Federal judiciary has been proactively packed with conservative jurists. This past week has been a preview of what we can expect to see from them.
1.) This one. (Paraphrase: Intentionally using a jackhammer outside the church every Sunday may hurt worshippers, but it is not illegal)
2.) This one. (Paraphrase: Public sector trustee responsibility is less than ordinary trustee responsibility)
3.) This one.(Paraphrase: Treason is now legal if a government official commits it)
4.) This one. (Paraphrase: Screw those AK fishermen and natives even more)
America is becoming a nation with lots of laws but little justice. These are major decisions, not only for the parties concerned, but also for the rest of justice-loving Americans. Their effects on the sensibilities of so many people are fundamentally profoundly deleterious. Sadly, after all the administrative injustice coming from the executive branch, it looks like more to come via the judicial branch. How many more unjust decisions must we endure in the coming years? And what is the remedy?
When the people of a state such as Arizona pass an English-only lawthat then is used to force-feed English down the throats of children within the public school system, who is there to protect the peoples' civil rights? Right now, it looks like no one is there. Once again, injustice is all around us.
The problem is not just corruption, lies, hubris, or ideology. There is an insatiable power-hunger among a significant part of the population that seems to be amoral (think neocons), unethical (see above judicial decisions), indifferent (think the penny-pinching AZ legislature), and even criminal (think the penny-pinching AZ legislature's defiance of the AZ Supreme Court)
A cynical person might go so far as to say that there is a pathological streak present in the way our so-called public servants are doing their job. Are they there to serve us, or are they serving us up to their power-elite masters? This sounds so ****ing bizarre to me as I read these words I type. Elouise Cobell is on Democracy Now, saying the same thing. Unreal, unjust, reactionary, and defiant, are behaviors that so many power elitists exhibit. Oh- and it's insane.