[Travis McGee]

I agree with that. But at the moment, the GOPes have just become Rat collaborators, playing the "Washington Generals" to the Rat "Globetrotters," to use Rush's analogy. They are happy to play patsy, but we are the rubes really being played by both the Rats and GOPes.

But no matter if President Sanders packs the SCOTUS with Ginzbergs, we can still read the plain English of the BOR, and any attempts to forcibly interrupt the first amd will be checked by the 2nd. No cabal of black-robed tyrants is going to define me out of my God-given freedom. I can read the Constitution without interpretation, when it comes to large issues like speech and guns.

The way it SHOULD work, Congress would be supreme, but they have abdicated.

[nathanbedford]

You are absolutely correct, black robed tyranny is tyranny no less because it is erudite. There is nothing in the Constitution which says the Supreme Court shall pass on the constitutionality of these matters nor is there anything in the Constitution which makes the Supreme Court the sole arbiter of these social issues. To the contrary, as your reply points out, the power is within the People's House of Representatives in combination with the Senate to restrict the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and keep it away from these issues.

The fact is the political parties have not been able to overcome the inertia, the aura of rectitude to which the American people have been acculturated to defer. But I system is designed to act to correct error, rarely to avoided, and to correct error only when it reaches the threshold of the intolerable.

All of this mindless support for Donald Trump is part of the reaction to the elites, on the court and elsewhere, pushing us past that threshold. There are other, better ways to rectify a system that has lost its balance than with the imposition of a mountebank in charge of article 2.