“Equal Justice Under Law”

A Supreme Court slogan that has drastically changed!

Supreme Court of the United States of America seen in August 7th, 2021.

By LEK Reports and Superinformative.

How many actually knew, before right now, exactly what the words scribed on the front of the Supreme Court building actually said? Not to many, I bet. And, if I’m being honest, I went to Washington DC one time in my life, when I was in the 6th grade, as a school patrol officer, and was awarded a trip, which my parents had to pay for, of course. But, it was a trip of a lifetime, for a young man 11 years old! It was 1963, if my memory serves me correctly. We visited every monument, government building, in the area. Toured many of them. Went through the Nation’s Capital, the FBI Building, the Government Mint, all of the Presidents Statue buildings/Monuments, everything. And, we even toured through the Supreme Court building.

I remember when the bus pulled up to the building, the tour guide was telling us all about the building, the history of the Court, and the purpose of the Court. The courts place in the structure of the government. And, the guide pointed out what was scribed over the entrance to the Supreme Court building:

“EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW”

This makes me fast forward to the current Supreme Court of today.

Nine Justices make up the current Supreme Court: one Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices. The Honorable John G. Roberts, Jr., is the 17th Chief Justice of the United States, and there have been 104 Associate Justices in the Court’s history.

The Supreme Court as composed June 30, 2022 to present.
Front row, left to right: Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., and Associate Justice Elena Kagan.
Back row, left to right: Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Credit: Fred Schilling, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States

One thing that I think we all can agree on is this. This Supreme Court, as it is currently staffed, is as corrupt a court we have ever had. We have two justices, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas and Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. that have been proven beyond any doubt that they are as crooked, biased, unethical, as the day is long! Both of them have accepted bribes of lavish gifts, vacations, trips, and Lord only knows what else, from billionaires who ultimately had cases come before the Supreme Court.

Neither of these justices recused themselves from ANY case! Both of these justices voted in favor of the billionaires whom had given them their lavish gifts, and, no doubt, had a strong influence in the other justices to vote the same to get the decision they desired.

This is not “EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW”.

There’s been several highly publicized cases under this last term of our Supreme Court. Overturning the Roe case, which stripped liberties from ALL women the rights to govern their own bodies, took away their right to decisions with their physicians. Basically, backing up ‘Women’s Rights’ to pre 1950s.

Then, the Affirmative Action case. This case alone backs up this country up into the 18th century. Early 19th century. Pre Civil War days, anyway. We are talking pre-Abraham Lincoln presidency folks. This case dealt with the submission to colleges and universities such as Harvard and University of North Carolina, specifically named in the case. They had on their application where the applicant had to specify their ‘Race’.

The Supreme Court believed that ‘Race’ was being considered as a method to be admitted to the institution. Well, what had ‘Affirmative Action’ done years ago to employers, schools of all ages, everything. Everything had to have a certain percentage of persons of color, and sexuality, hired, or attending the schools. We weren’t having any problem with this setup. As a matter of fact, we have been living under this since the early 60s.

Last I looked, we have been trying to get this ‘racism’ thing right my entire lifetime. I haven’t had any issue with it myself. I was raised where “all people are created equal”. It was taught to me at a very early age. Not only in school, but at home, and church. So I got that education from all three sides! On the farm, I worked in my dads fields right along side of persons of every color, and creed. We never had any problems. My dad treated everyone the same. As long as his rules of the farm weren’t broken, you had a very happy, fulfilled, life. If you broke the rules, you suffered his consequences. Woah be unto you, if you broke his rules!

Then comes the case of the assistance of paying off school loans. College loans of some students. Apparently the Supreme Court justices hadn’t read this very well. This was for the students making less than a certain amount of money per year, which if memory serves me, was less than $250,000 a year. Now, I don’t have student loans to pay off, but I have a hell of a lot of other bills I’m stuck with to pay off. I make a hell of a lot less than $250,000 a year. I make less than $21,000 a year, TOTAL! The government hadn’t addressed anything to help me in any of these bills.

This isn’t all the stupid decisions this court has made this session. It seems since TFG, #45, had his way selecting Supreme Court Justices in his mere 4 miserable (for us) years in office. That along with the fact that he had a Republican House and Senate, Mitch McConnell pushed through his last picks in a hurry to give this court its majority so decisions like these would be pushed the way the Republican Party wanted them done.

We need to get ready, because, I fear to say, the worst isn’t over, yet!

Stay safe, folks. Until next time!