Congratulations, Chief Justice Roberts. You kept your hands clean. But at what cost?
he “stock in trade” of judges is trust. The only thing that gives a jurist’s opinion weight is public confidence that the guy in the black robe honestly and properly applied the law as prescribed by his oath. Unfortunately, courts at all levels seem to gleefully disregard the importance of that trust.
Local judges appear uninterested in public order. Their release of violent offenders with low or no bail to prey on the innocent has become an epidemic.
District judges are busily trying to nullify an election. They are ruling that Congress may neither legislate nor appropriate, and that the president needs their permission to enforce duly enacted laws and conduct foreign affairs.
The Supreme Court sits atop that chaos, more concerned with avoiding conflict than with defending the Constitution. We are galled by the chief justice’s gaslighting that the Article III branch of government can be trusted. His claim that “there are no Obama judges, Biden judges, nor Trump judges” was a lie that he insisted we accept despite what we were clearly observing.
For elections to work, mere accuracy is insufficient. They must be transparent and beyond reproach, not riddled with question marks. There will always be millions of Americans dissatisfied with the outcome of any one election, but we expect them to abide by the outcome, because it represents the will of the majority. A peaceful transfer of power depends on the minority believing that an election does, in fact, represent the will of the majority.