Courtesy of Pam Martens.
President Obama Walking in Cross Hall at the White House. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza.)
Last year, Ian Millhiser released his book, Injustices: The Supreme Court’s History of Comforting the Comforted and Afflicting the Afflicted. On the book jacket, Millhiser cogently summed up the cruelties inflicted on this nation as a result of lifetime appointments of bigoted and elitist gatekeepers on the U.S. Supreme Court:
“The justices of the Supreme Court have shaped a nation where children toiled in coal mines, where Americans could be forced into camps because of their race, and where a woman could be sterilized against her will by state law. The Court was the midwife of Jim Crow, the right hand of union busters, and the dead hand of the Confederacy. Nor is the modern Court a vast improvement, with its incursions on voting rights and its willingness to place elections for sale.”
On the topic of race, the book explores how the U.S. ratified three constitutional amendments to provide equal rights to freed slaves while U.S. Supreme Court justices spent three decades attempting to dismantle the amendments. Millhiser correctly argues in the book that the U.S. Supreme Court has usurped the power that the constitution reserves for the people and their elected representatives, making a mockery of the concept of justice.
Just a little over two months ago, the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made outrageously demeaning remarks against blacks during oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas. The case involved a white student, Abigail Fisher, who was denied admission to the University of Texas. Fisher sued the University over its consideration of race in its admissions.
Scalia stated the following while sitting on the bench during oral arguments…
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