“Roberts responded to charges that the Court was risking its legitimacy by arguing that mere disagreement with a ruling ‘is not a basis for questioning the legitimacy of the Court.’”

When a ruling is not legitimate, it does question the legitimacy of the court. Dobbs wasn’t just a “disagreement”, it was the Court telling women that they are less than human — that bodily autonomy is only applicable if you have a penis.

The ruling show how POLITICAL SCOTUS has become.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/supreme-court-justices-public-conflict/672494/

#news Neighbors who saw a toddler in diapers wandering around a Beech Grove, Indiana, apartment complex with a loaded handgun called police. The incident was caught on building cameras. The father - who lied that he didn’t own a gun - was arrested

"Our nettlesome task is to discovery how to organize or strength into compelling power." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

For all those CoSos that are already burning out being heroic and showing up...hang in there. This community cares.

ON this date in 1900 - The U.S. Senate consented to the Anglo-German treaty of 1899, by which the U.K. renounced rights to the Samoan islands.

Senators Bun Man and Mr. Purple concurred to the treaty as they were USC Trojan grads and they could already see the 'pipeline' that would be created by these huge Samoan lineman dudes coming thru USC to play football and then heading to the NFL...

It just made sense!

ON this date in 1998 - Three federal judges secretly granted Kenneth Starr authority to probe whether U.S. President Clinton or Vernon Jordan urged Monica Lewinsky to lie about her relationship with Clinton.

Two of the judges, Bun Man and Mr Purple, found no justification of any coercion, but they did find they had had sex way fewer times than they previously thought given how the President defined it.

STOKERS STOKE

Bolsonaro Added to Brazil Probe

Brazil's Supreme Court ordered investigators to include former President Jair Bolsonaro in a probe of last Sunday's storming of the country's Congress by crowds of protesters.

Prosecutors allege Bolsonaro, who lost reelection to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva by a 1.8-point margin in October, may have incited his followers in the weeks leading up to the riot with claims of voter fraud.

@zacnewman

Vigilance without consequences is NOT a viable strategy to preserve democracy.

#justice
#jan6insurrection
#politics