Supremely Smart

To The Editor:

Shakespeare, that sirloin wit, once wrote: “This above all; to thy bovine self be true.” A moo-ving idea for sure now that our governing class herds us like mindless appetites to one food fight after another in a state of perpetualemotion combat. We are after all: Americans. And in this, we must always be true.

We, at least those of us in the higher order senior set, were bred and buttered up to think of ourselves as being free to be as smart, dumb or devious as we wished so long as our words and actions never crossed that legal line that separates the actor from the audience. To sum it up. We are free Americans constrained by laws our elected government makes, and those by our modern age Magna Carta, a declaration defined as a Constitution.

But to whom then does it fall to find for or against the constitutionality of our laws? It falls to a Supreme Court of wise and politically blind justices, appointed for life, whose principal role in interpreting and applying the Constitution to those laws depends on the shared perception of their role as the lynch pin of a self governing republic.

From Civil War politics to Civil Rights legislation, the justices have striven, albeit imperfectly, to keep the peace between warring political factions by honoring their apolitical role. without which, we Americans would be relegated to endless conflagrations of political power lust branded as “Justice for Us against Them”. Supreme Court justices must never be selected for their political ideology. A court of ideologues will transform self government into something of a Medieval Inquisition tyranny.

We Americans must not let ourselves be herded into believing that this conservative interpretation of their role is best altered to a more liberal concept where they become the purveyors of “politically defined justice” rather than of the constitutionality of the laws politicians more or less create for that purpose. Yardsticks that measure racism or any political “ism” are applied to the nomination and legislative confirmation of a Supreme Court Justice at the peril of being led to the slaughter of our free selves — government in favor of the mindless tyranny of the political mob we now identify as “woke-ism.”

Don Carpenter

Schulenburg