(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Our Illegitimate Reps In Congress (MAGA) Have Been Joined By An Illegitimate SCOTUS [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-07-01 The holding, in Trump v US, reads like a permission slip for political violence. Not only do they go out of their way to parse distinctions between ‘official’ and ‘unofficial’ acts, they explicitly exclude common standards of Motive, when prosecutors are attempting to hold the Executive responsible for criminal activity. It’s basically pages of fancy word salad to cover for an extremist view of executive power, such that it’s function will be to invite what would anywhere else in society be considered lawless behavior. And in the United States that executive behavior comes with unlimited pardon power. As for the Court being ‘illegitimate’, isn’t that being just a tad hyperbolic? I plead guilty. But I also think this court has brought us to a point where being hyperbolic is called for. For there is nothing more hair-raising than a court that just presumes a perverse reading of the Constitution, to justify avoiding that it's rather uncouth ideological champion, Donald Trump, of an atavistic libertarianism, that owes nothing to 9000 years of recorded human civilization, be held accountable to mere peers of this moment. "No, no", the conservative majority seems to be saying, "we can be shamed (for now), but we will not condemn our champion's obvious criminality, and allow you to succeed in the project of accountable self-governance". These libertarians want their ‘strong man’ to have the space he needs to unfold his strong man Vision. For this is Ayn Rand’s libertarianism. A libertarianism that romanticizes and elevates Leaders, corporate leaders or national leaders, that through their populism, and Nietschzean force of Will, no longer deserve the petty bonds of bickering politicians reflecting the communitarian concerns of the hoi polloi. As the wealthy are wont to believe, leaders should be unbound. And the SCOTUS just revealed they basically endorse that view. And they expect us to sit back and swallow that whole? No. It's time to call this Court what it is, right alongside MAGA, which the Court already had a hand in strengthening (see Rucho v Common Cause, 2019): Illegitimate. The Democratic presidential campaign should go ‘full medieval’ on an “illegitimate court”. And it doesn’t matter that it sounds hyperbolic to say it. Because the stakes are that high, and it’s not hard to explain. Our world will change significantly if Trump is elected...again. American voters, across the spectrum will respond to that. From an illegitimate (gerrymandered, REDMAP) Freedom Caucus, that is just a front for their stochastically-generated goon squad, a squad they can sic on anyone they don't like; to a sitting majority of SCOTUS judges, that are the product of the unscrupulous, and therefore ethically and morally illegitimate, actions of then-Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell. Both REDMAP the election strategy, and the ‘long game’ of leveraging religious fervor to pack the courts, were bought by the same GOP and Federalist Society donors. Wake up, America. The wealthy, as a class, have figured out how to use technology to get Americans used to political violence and intimidation. I've said it before and I'll say it again: think Rwanda in 1994. A private media ecosystem in the African country of Rwanda monetized propaganda, such that a severely polarized society turned on itself after a political assassination and, within a period of months, neighbors killing neighbors with machetes and small arms, murdered almost 15% of the population. People took the law into their own hands. And this Court has taken a step in that direction, of providing an amoral justification for any leader of the American republic, who might dare to presume the purpose of achieving public power is to provide their Cause (such as it might be?) with whatever it takes to maintain that power, and the Cause that brought it there, with a veneer of legality. That’s why the hyperbole is justified. This is an Illegitimate Court, voicing constitutionally-illegitimate opinions on what constitutes American Law, and the Biden-Harris campaign should go out there and shout it from the rooftops. Force the conversation onto the terrain of Freedom vs Tyranny. There’s no other way for reasonable people to understand what’s at stake. And that leads me to a question. Where is the Judicial Conference of the United States? This is the body that serves the SCOTUS in an administrative and advisory capacity. It’s composed of judges from various federal courts and is chaired by the Chief Justice of the United States. Key Functions: Advisory Role : While it does not have direct control over the Supreme Court, it provides important policy guidance and administrative support for the federal judiciary. : While it does not have direct control over the Supreme Court, it provides important policy guidance and administrative support for the federal judiciary. Rule-Making : It plays a significant role in the formulation of rules of practice and procedure for the federal courts. : It plays a significant role in the formulation of rules of practice and procedure for the federal courts. Budget and Legislation: The Judicial Conference also makes recommendations on budgetary needs and legislative changes affecting the judiciary. Someone should ask them, are they OK with this constitutional assault? Reporting indicates that they’ve already been disturbed at the lack of ethics being demonstrated by a number of justices with respect to the taking of gifts from billionaire benefactors. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Dick Durbin should get the JC spokespeople to make public comments on how the JC feels about their colleagues in black robes, and whether the Conference could provide the public with some insight about how we’ve arrived at this juncture, that American law schools are providing jurists that can entertain a thought process that justifies undermining the Constitution — not through honest elections reflecting changing opinions — but by subterfuge and underhanded methods, abusing the Law they take their oaths to uphold, and designed to thwart a voting majority from achieving it’s deserved political expression in it’s public institutions. The JC should be made to answer the following question: Are we experiencing a judicial coup attempt? 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