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Has the Supreme Court No Shame?
A Question for John Roberts 04/17/2023 |
What does “being without shame” mean? It means to be without conscience, without a moral compass, to be incapable of recognizing that one can be wrong, make mistakes, participate in evil,
and not care. It means to pretend to be perfect, to be a king or emperor without any clothes but to join public parades anyway. It means to be above the law and be perfectly fine with that (because, of course, one feels one is above everyone and everything else). |
It is a serious thing when a person entrusted with public authority and responsibility to bring about the common good has no shame. Laws exist to remind people that there are some boundaries we must agree upon if we are to survive as a people, as a society. Of course boundaries shift and evolution happens and “all things are impermanent”—but what is not impermanent is the basic principle that we all have a conscience, a capacity to
discern right from wrong and that there are actions that are right and actions that are wrong, even if the law does not always spell them out. | The Emperor is wearing no clothes, from a powerful fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Illustration by Hans Tegnor. Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain. |
And it should NOT take
months and months and years and years of legal maneuvering and game-playing to get to the heart of the matter: That judges who take oaths of office to serve the constitution and the body politic ought to bring a conscience to the table. A sense of right and wrong. A sense of shame, therefore. And if they don’t, the law and courts and public opinion should speak out and act out without incessant delay. |
“Latest Clarence Thomas scandal may be too big to blow over.” MSNBC | Mr. John Roberts, chief of the
once-supreme court of the United States, do you have any shame, any conscience, any regard for the oath of office that you and your fellow justices took (granted three of them came via the path of a presidential |
champion of no shame)? If you do, and if you cared a damn about the court, you would insist that grifter Clarence Thomas retire immediately. And only then will he get his retirement benefits. And if he does not, it is time to prosecute him for the shame he has brought on the supreme court for not reporting bribes from his billionaire Republican activist sugar
daddy in Texas. |
Shame or shamelessness at the Supreme Court? The time has come to tell America. With actions as well as
words. |
See Matthew Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society.
And Fox, The Tao of Thomas Aquinas, pp. 116-119. Banner image: "Don't accept injustice." By Quinn Dombrowski on Flickr. |
Queries for Contemplation
What does “having no shame”
mean to you? How important are the consequences of having no shame in the body politic including the judicial system itself?
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