You forgot Alito.
You forgot Alito.
Thomas is much better, but Alito (and Trump) were still keepers. The rest of the court, and all of Congress, are pretty well write offs so far as I can tell.
I’d suggested sometime back filling Congress and the rest of the court with 542 clones of Thomas. Unfortunately, he is a good Catholic and so I am sure would not consent.
And so it looks like the Republic is now dead, at least under this Constitution.
It was a good run. Three cheers for the for the Founding Fathers in general, and for Madison in particular. His system of checks and balances, if adhered to, was brilliant. Too bad Lincoln and the post Civil war and circa World War I amendments gutted the thing.
Sparta had, as one of my students explained to me recently, and even more effective system of checks and balances. There run in some ways was not as good, but it was much, much longer.
Maybe something else will emerge from this crisis. Where there is life there is hope, but so far as I can see, when Thomas goes, the last vestiges of the present Constitutional regime as anything other than a farce under which something else operates will go with him, unless Alito ratchets up his dissents, in which case he will have the privilege of shutting out the lights on the old order.
Trump may run in 2024. He may run a campaign that would win if the election was fair, but that is unlikely—but even if he does, will he have a better supporting cast the next time round? And he will be eight years older than his first kick at the can.
God Bless America.