After reading Chief Justice John Roberts’ words concerning our Constitution (“Chief Justice says Constitution remains ‘firm and unshaken’,” Jan. 2), I almost choked. Those words from a man whose court is, in all probability, the most corrupt in our history, who shredded our Constitution through its shadow docket, who enabled our lawless president, whose rulings defy logic and who is working for corporations instead of We the People. How can one respond?
My view is that, after we clean up corruption in the executive branch, we should tackle the Supreme Court. On second thought, we should tackle the lawlessness of both branches of the government at the same time. After all, they are colluding and enabling each other.
Billionaires have spent the last several decades buying influence with money, gifts and favors for the court’s members, and now our justices are returning the favor by giving the president a get-out-of-jail-free card. This way, our commander-in-chief can continue to enrich himself and his fellow oligarchs at our expense. Instead of serving us, they are serving themselves. Just look at how their net worth has recently increased while at the same time more Americans are falling into poverty.
Let us raise our voices until the sound is deafening. Let us hold the corrupt executive branch and the Supreme Court accountable for their actions. Let us take back our government.
Gloria Gralewski
Manor