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In Joyce Vance's letter today:

“If the entire foundation falls out from under your house, it does no good to have a really well-insulated attic,” the judge said. “It sure would be nice if someone had our backs.” An anonymous federal judge made that comment to NBC News in a remarkable piece that published this morning.

The attic they are referring to is the U.S. Supreme Court. A Court that is increasingly viewed in some corners as having abandoned the role Article III of the Constitution assigns to it, to act as a check and balance on the executive branch. But the concerns the judges expressed were about the process the Supreme Court is using to make decisions. The reporting was not an inquiry into either the substance of the high court’s rulings or the politics behind it all.

I read the statement from the Judge as the foundation being the SCOTUS, and the well-insulated attic being all the lower courts trying to uphold the law in rational well-explained decisions.

Am I reading this wrong?

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I read the statement from the Judge as the foundation being the SCOTUS, and the well-insulated attic being all the lower courts trying to uphold the law in rational well-explained decisions.

Am I reading this wrong?

I had the same thought as you. I think Joyce simply used the wrong word by accident.

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