SCOTUS, Punting Again

THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, known affectionately, cleverly, and acronymically these days as "SCOTUS" spent about two hours yesterday hearing oral arguments in a case it had already decided long before. Thus, the oral arguments were a mere formality, a "dog and pony show" as we say, a waste of time, a sad sample of misguided, biased, twisted justice. There was never any chance under heaven, on God's green Earth, or in hell that this group of far right wing extremist ideologues, chosen for appointment to the court for precisely that reason, were going to issue a ruling that Donald Trump, because he engaged in insurrection, would hereby be removed by SCOTUS decree, from the ballot in every state in these United States for the November presidential election. Simply, no freaking way. The ruling has not actually been issued yet; it will be soon. Trump, despite the fact that he indeed did engage in insurrection in his atttempt to overthrow the United States government violently, will, almost certainly, remain on the ballot. The rulings by the respective state Supreme Courts of Colorado and Maine, both of which correctly ruled that Trump's insurrrection disqualifies him for any furher elective office, will be overruled. The vast right wing American conspiracy to flood the justice system with far right wing conservative magistrates to remake the country in the image of right wing extremists is, at least in this case, working splendidly. You wonder how different it would have been if Barack Obama had sent thousands of African-American men to the Capitol on January 6, 2021 to ransack the place and reverse election results? For one thing, they would have been shot dead. For another, Barack Obama would be in prison by now, if not already executed for treason and insurrection. An astute analyst pointed out that no matter what happens from now on, much wailing, gnashing of teeth, and possibly political violence seems, at this point, nearly inevitable. If the high court shockingly rules that Trump is indeed ineligible to be president again, can you even remotely imagine how angry and violent MAGA nation will become? Such a ruling can be imagined as the spark which starts the great civil war of twenty twenty four. The civil war in the streets of America, disenfranchised Trumpers versus Americans for democracy. If, on teh other hand, Trump runs, which seems certain at this point, either he wins, or he loses. If he loses, do we have to endure another election denial by Trump and half of America, and another violent mob insurrrection at the Capitol? And if he wins, heaven forbid, do we have to endure one day, and maybe more, of a Trump dictatorship? Comments made by several of the far right wing justices clearly revealed just how desperately they are twisting and turning and bending over backwards to keep Trump on the ballot, in direct contravention of the constitution they claim to hold oh so dear. "Shouldn't the candidates and elections be determined by the voters, rather than by the court?"...."Should the entire country be led by Colorado?".. Utter drivel, judicial inanity.You expect better from supposedly erudite legal scholars....Yes, mister justice, the voters, not the courts, should decide elections, and they should be able to decide from among as many qualified candidates as possible, but only from among qualified candidates. The voters should definitely not have the option of electing someone who is not qualified to hold office, someone like donald Trump, who engaged in insurrection, quite obviously, and should be prosecuted and probably incarcerated eventually, instead of elected president. We now know, if nothing else, that the current United States Supreme Court is as willing as the Republican party to elect a proven criminal to the presidency.