Dear Friends,
It seems to me, the courts have destroyed their reputation by becoming political. By ruling both ways on every Trump order, the courts are authorizing and thus accepting responsibility for the outcomes… good or bad. This makes them open to political criticism. Whereas, had they ruled separation of powers, they would have no such culpability, and no political criticism. Instead of following their obligation to stay above politics… judges waded right in. Moreover, their nakedly political rulings discredit every decision they’ve ever made. Because no one trusts a partisan to be fair. So the court system has discredited itself, taken on culpability for every failure of the Trump administration, even as they have stood against them, ensuring they’ll get acrimony no matter what happens.
Our courts are corrupt. Everyone with their eyes open knows that courts across the planet are utterly corrupt. We see that courts are run by self-serving egoists who look down on humanity, like you would dog poop on your shoe… how could it make any human hearted rulings? Given their past judgments like Buck v. Bell, the courts are heartless. Which is fine for the corrupted as long as it stays hidden. They can go on abusing people under color of law all day and night… until their actions are exposed to the public. That’s why it’s imperative the courts only abuse little people with small voices. Otherwise their absolute corruption is exposed. Which is why in the past the courts have closed themselves to public participation, and tried to appear to be fair… to hide their true nature.
Our courts are political. A court that publicly takes a political stance and abuses the law to stop a political agenda, wipes the veneer off, exposing the corruption beneath for all to see. Once seen it can’t be unseen and it can’t be denied. Because the courts have taken a political stance, not a legal one. Even those who agree with the courts abusing their authority to stop Trump’s agenda, see the corruption. For now, they’re turning away… but that picture is seared into their psyche. The sure knowledge the courts aren’t fair, unbiased or perhaps even legitimate, but the expression of arbitrary rule masquerading as justice. Thrasymachus said the courts are a tool of the strong to take from the weak and call it justice. Though the implication is lost on no one. Our courts enforce political orthodoxy… not justice.
Our courts have discredited themselves. By blocking every action Trump makes the courts own the outcomes, with ridicule should they fail, and scorn should they succeed. Because the courts were against those policies before they “allowed” them, essentially taking both sides. This will make them appear responsible if those policies fail, because the courts had stopped them, or if the policy succeeds, the courts will be attacked as well. Because they tried to stop a successful policy. No matter how things play out the courts have egg on their faces. This is a classic lose-lose situation. Even as they shred their standing in the public’s eye doing so. Moreover, their becoming nakedly political opens them to political criticism. All of which discredits the institution of law itself.
Our judges lack wisdom. There was no upside for the courts to become openly political. They willingly and knowingly created a lose lose situation for themselves. A self-made trap that has discredited them and their institution. They’ve set themselves up as the fall guy no matter how things turn out. Which has made our courts a laughing stock. A mere joke that people increasingly take less and less seriously. As the press has shredded its reputation by becoming openly political, the medical establishment poisoned our trust by demanding we wear political iconography as a condition of service, and the courts have now corrupted their reputation by the same means. Politics, right or left, is apparently like a tar baby, something that inexorably draws the touch of establishments… then covers them with tar.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
