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The Fourth Divided by Nine
4 July 2024
Oh, not another spiel about the Supreme Court, you say. But let us say one thing that has not been said. Those six jerks sure know how to ruin a party.
Trump v. United States. Background: 'Ice Cold Pop' sign and American flag with shadow slicing across it on Route 66, Seligman, Ariz., photographed by Carol Highsmith in 2009.
The gang that dragged stare decisis to the trash presuming their own "egregiously wrong" decisions won't follow, has let the beer go flat and let our charcoal chill into ash with the dogs still far from the grill as they fly their flags upside down.
Well, there's still baseball where, just like on the court but confined to a few innings, strikes are sometimes called balls and balls are sometimes called strikes.
There should, we think, be a sort of Hall of Fame for legal reporters and analysts trying to make sense of the predicament facing our nation this Fourth.
They shed light where dark robes would obscure it. And they always hit it out of the park, no matter the strike zone.
They give us something to chew on (gift link) this Fourth other than hot dogs. But the fireworks, we're afraid, are still to come. In the dark of night.
And those fireworks may not just be colored light exploding in the sky but armaments themselves.
Talk about ruining a party.