Subject: Re: USSC Term Limits
Jennifer Rubin had an interesting piece today in her Substack "The Contrarian".

As we are on the cusp of July 4th and its meaning for us today, Rubin sees the spirit that animated the founders as a valuable guide to those of us today who are stuck in Despot Trump's America.

But she also applies that spirit to our grievances against the current Supreme Court:

As with King George, the current MAGA majority deserves at least a partial listing of the wrongs justifying a dramatic alteration in our government:

It eviscerated a 50-year precedent establishing women’s bodily autonomy, a fundamental component of full citizenship;

It reimposed Jim Crow in violation of the unequivocal text of the Voting Rights Act and in violation of the plain reading of the 14th and 15th Amendments, which empower Congress to implement the post-Civil War amendments’ promises of equality;

It doled out virtual blanket criminal immunity to Donald Trump, directly contradicting the historical and constitutional framework on which the country was founded;

It inhumanely stripped the protected status and all due process rights from hundreds of thousands of refugees whose deportation could result in torture, persecution, untold hardship, and even death;

It cooked up in the chaos-producing Slaughter decision, wiping out 90 year precedent (Humphrey’s Executor) that allowed “certain agencies tasked with certain responsibilities some independence from presidential control,” as Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote, a decision so lacking in intellectual rigor that Justice Amy Coney Barrett was left to bemoan that the exception carved out of thin air for the Federal Reserve made no sense: “How can history support both a categorical rule and a carve-out?”;

Justices repeatedly failed to comply with financial disclosure requirements, received lavish gifts from parties with interests in business before the court, and refused to adopt mandatory ethical guidelines, including rules for recusal that all other federal court judges must follow;

Justices have made a variety of remarks in public settings evidencing bias against political liberalism and castigating good faith critics of the court in highly partisan and personal terms;

Justices have declined to recuse themselves to avoid the appearance of glaring impropriety stemming from spouses’ overt engagement in political extremism.
Jennifer Rubin in "The Contrarian", found on Substack

A few days ago, I indicated I wouldn't be flying any American flags until this country regained some semblance of sanity, and that the America of today does not at all resemble the America envisioned by the founders as they wrote and voted on the Constitution.

I shall read the Declaration of Independence again, as I did last July 4th.

The protests lodged in that document against the King of England parallel and even identify many of the same grievances we have today against a government that increasingly seems intent on crushing dissent and elevating a president to the rank of ruling monarch.

Are the American people up for the task of "perfecting this Union"?

Collectively, the country has moved a few steps backward. Are we ready to resume the forward march?