Packing the Court With Conservatives

 Sanctimoniously, hypocritically, simplistically, but presumably well intentioned but naive and uninformed people impress themselves by reciting by memory that the court must not ever become a political body, and that it simply must not ever legislate from the Supreme C bench. Blah blah blah. As if we hadn't heard this trip a thousand times. The supreme court has always been a "political" body, since all law is the direct product of politics, and since the court rules on whether laws are constitutional,ti decides whether laws will continue to exist, which achieves exactly the same effect as legislating  legislating in reverse, if nothing else. Conservatives complain about legislating from the bench when courts render ruling amenable to liberal ideology. When courts render ruling amenable to conservative ideology, conservatives suddenly become deafeningly silent. The young attractive woman sat motionless in her Jackie Kennedy pink dress and bandit black mask, eyes expressionless, conveying only focused, deliberate intelligence. She seems confident, but not arrogant, indeed, humble. Amy Coney Barrett is certainly no hot dog. The Republicans praised her a bit too lavishly for good taste, and defended being there, accused Democrats of politicizing the process, as if they themselves hadn't done the same thing from the beginning. The Democrats had nothing left but to remind us of the Republican's broken promise, to never confirm a new justice close to an election, and to remind us that we have far better things to do for the moment, like save the country. In that, they had a point. Nobody mentioned,nor ever mentions, that being a liberal or conservative is not a qualification for membership on the high court. Everybody agrees that justices should uphold the law and apply the law ,and not render rulings base on personal biases, and everybody keeps repeating that, as if they believe it. We are so very adroit at stating the obvious. Nobody mentions nor ever mentions that it is impossible to be an "originalist", since nobody is a mind reader, nobody can determine the founder's framing intent, and that the framers themselves were often somewhat unsure of their own intent. All the Senators made the same mistake; they all removed their masks when talking. Mrs. Barrett tells us that courts are not designed to solve every problem, thus deflating our fondest hopes, and telling us something that we probably already knew. She uses platitudes well, if nothing else. But at least we all now have decided to pretend that today is not Columbus Day, and to instead begin the adjustment of believing that it is something called "indigenous peoples day" and that is progress in and of itself, even if the Supreme Court is packed choc full of right wing ideologues.