We’ve all heard of the “Supreme Court.” Historically, it has had 9 justices, one of whom designated upon presidential nomination, as “Chief Justice.” When the Constitution was ratified in 1789, the Court was defined with 6 justices, with John Jay as Chief. The fifth Chief Justice was John Marshall, who also held that position for the longest tenure: 34 years. Until 1869, the court’s size varied from 5 to 10 justices; at that point Congress set it at 9 justices and it has remained that until today.
The politicization of the court became an obvious problem under Franklin D. Roosevelt, a so-called “transformative” president, which mainly meant that he pushed policies that the Constitution had not anticipated, extra-Constitutional policies, we might call them. As the Supreme Court ruled against his socialist efforts, Roosevelt attempted to “pack” the Supreme Court, intending at one point to expand it to 15 justices… of whom enough would agree with Roosevelt’s political ideas.
“Packing” the court got shot down by a wise Senate in 1935, but it has always been technically “legal” constitutionally. How much safer we’d be today if there were an amendment that set the number of Justices at 9, safely limiting how destructive any one president could be. Harry Blackmun showed how destructive a Justice could be by inventing a “penumbra” of shadowy rights emanating from the Fourteenth Amendment and perceived “right to privacy.” It’s not known whether even Blackmun grasped how cleverly the definition of “life” could be distorted so as to convince 62 Million mothers that their unborn child is anything but.
Would he cheer or frown to find that not even womanhood can be defined in our enlightened age?
Coming home from work the other day – the day the “leaked” opinion draft indicating that Roe v. Wade could be overturned was all the RAGE – there were, in just one intersection of our not so very large town, about 250 pro-abortion hot-heads shouting at traffic, waving signs like, “My Body – My choice,” “Keep Abortion Legal,” “Bans Off My Body” and easily 50 other messages. Prudence observed that every single one of those protesting had never been aborted!
Abortion is definitely not one of those actions that can be done over, nor can the experience be related to others who have had one. What? You say that a woman can certainly discuss an abortion with another womens’ rights exerciser? Well, that’s true enough, but the abortion didn’t happen to her, did it? The person who actually experienced the abortion has been, pretty much, silenced forever. No one on this side of the veil can listen to how the abortee describes an abortion. The person in whom the abortion took place has only a circumstantial description of what happened: her brain wasn’t suctioned out of her skull so she can still speak and breath and stuff.
Of course, it is statements like that that bring down the hatred of the pro-abortion zealots who denounce the hatred being expressed, the lack of compassion for the abortion facilitator / mother, the outright… ummm, well, racism, or worse, religious beliefs Prudence is trying to impose on others! Ohh, the horror. Anyone making such a statement is trying to make an unfortunate “birthing person” feel badly about aborting the whatever it is she is carrying inside her. Aha! You called her “she.” You’re transphobic, too! You, you… you MAGA person!
Back in my town’s intersection there was a lot of anger and upset including many young men as well as women (Prudence can tell them apart). Have they any concept of what they are protesting? Is it safe to suspect that none has READ Justice Alito’s draft opinion? Or are they fired up because of the possibility that some authority-figure might have said “No!” to something they want?
What is more unfortunate is that “protests” in the Washington, D. C. area have devolved to the level of targeting the residences of Supreme Court Justices. “Protests” is in quotes because they are sliding toward riots, and Prudence can tell them apart. The now almost-expected wrong reaction from the “White House” is a failure to condemn this step towards personal, possibly physical intimidation of JUSTICES for performing the Constitutional tasks that reach the Court through legal, appellate processes. We are witnessing a creeping sickness that Prudence never expected to see.
The so-called “Biden Administration,” in thrall to a global communist utopia, utilizes the Constitution as a road-map of what to do the opposite of. The treachery and treason of the entire cabal is so monstrous as to defy belief, even as we watch it unfold. It has sunk to its lowest level yet when the “President” refuses to condemn the worst behavior of his fellow travelers… he does condemn patriotism, however. What a s-(euphemism for “turd”).