Mark Joseph Stern writes about the law for Slate. In this post, he writes about the Supreme Court’s acquiescence to Trump’s effort to become the all-powerful authoritarian of the federal government, unfettered by laws, Congressional powers, precedent, or norms.
This is a Court whose majority claims to be “originalists”, “textualists,” faithful to the language of the Constitution.
But now we can say with certainty that the six-member reactionary majority will reliably give Trump whatever power he wants.
The most recent example of the Court’s obsequiesence to Trump is its ruling that gave Trump the power to fire members of independent commissions whose members can be removed–by law–only “for cause,” such as corruption, malfeasance, failure to act responsibly.
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THE PAPAL PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES
I will preface my following comment by noting that I’m a life-long Catholic and have been a member of The Third Order of St. Francis for more than 60 years.
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is Catholic, as are Justices Alito, Thomas, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. They form the hard core of the Court’s conservative cadre.
For nearly all of its history until the papacy of Pope John Paul II, the Catholic church has been an authoritarian organization with the Pope as its ultimate ruler.
For those not born and raised in such a religious culture, it is difficult to grasp how it shapes a person’s view of all aspects of life, from family life, to life as a citizen.
The Catholic church began to liberalize with the Second Vatican Council that was convened from 1962 to 1965. The most notable of the changes made by the Council was that the Catholic Mass was from then on authorized and encouraged to be conducted in the local language of the people instead of in Latin.
To some groups of Catholics, this change was an abomination because it represented a huge step back from centralized authoritarianism in which only ordained priests held the power to talk to God in a language that ordinary Catholics didn’t understand. In effect, priests were high priests.
One of these arch-conservative reactionary groups remains very active today behind the scenes in the Catholic church hierarchy and has an influential contingent of lay Catholics in nations around the globe — especially in the United States. This group of clerical hierarchy and lay Catholics strenuously opposed all the liberalizations of Popes John Paul II and Pope Francis I, and they dislike current Pope Leo III for his liberal history and future intentions.
This group wants to return the Mass to Latin-only, to restore Papal authoritarianism, to remove women from any place near an altar or in any position of authority, and to reinstate inflexible and total intolerance and condemnation of any form of abortion, same-sex relationships, sex-change, and a score of “woke” social issues that “too liberal” Popes have tolerated.
In the view of this group, the United States has been in moral decline because the constitutional interpretations of previous Supreme Court majorities have incorrectly given American freedoms that are not specifically given in the Constitution, in spite of the unenumerated rights provision of the 9th Amendment.
By his rulings, Chief Justice John Roberts agrees with that anti-woke view, as do his fellow conservative Catholic Justices. Although these Justices can’t be proven to be members of that conservative Catholic organization because it is highly secretive about its member list, these Justices’ rulings and the language and reasoning in those rulings give every indication that they are at least fellow travelers with the views of that group.
Roberts and his Court cronies are hell-bent to create an authoritarian papal-style presidency, and our liberal Constitution be damned.
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“Pax venici dictum. . . you’re all Catholics now”-Firesign Theatre-
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Is the unnamed conservative group to which you refer the Opus Dei?
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