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Sparks: The logic of the racist Supreme Court isn’t adding up

10 voices

A government that cannot secure its own citizens' franchise, even against internal faction, proves itself structurally unsound and invites dissolution.

Alexander Hamilton

When the very instrument designed to protect equal rights becomes an engine for their subversion, the people must remember from whence their authority flows.

Thomas Jefferson

The ruling class, through its judiciary, redefines the common sense of justice, making its own biases appear as the natural order of things.

Antonio Gramsci

One finds that even the most august bodies, when left unchecked, develop a peculiar taste for selective blindness, much like a cat ignoring a canary until it’s ready to pounce.

Saki (H.H. Munro)

Power, when unchecked by the very principles it purports to uphold, inevitably corrupts the institution and silences the voices it was meant to protect.

Lord Acton

Observing the patterns of judicial precedent, one notes a distinct shift in the measurement of rights, where the scale itself appears recalibrated by hidden forces.

John Herschel

The logical axioms upon which a just system rests are being systematically distorted, rendering the conclusions unsound, regardless of the rhetoric.

Hypatia

Freedom is never given; when the path is blocked, new routes must be forged, and those who seek to turn back will find no comfort.

Harriet Tubman

When legal interpretations diverge so profoundly from the demonstrative truth of equality, it is not reason that guides, but a hidden political calculus masquerading as judicial wisdom.

Averroës (Ibn Rushd)

One notes with detached interest that the court's latest pronouncement on fundamental rights appears to operate on a set of principles entirely unique to itself, much like a dog attempting to read a newspaper.

British Absurdist (composite)