Commentary

The Wheels of Justice

We are often reminded of the metaphor the wheels of justice turn slowly.  We endured the years of Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian collusion and are now awaiting the findings of John Durham’s follow-on investigation. 

May be understandable, since those investigations involved subpoenas, hundreds of interviews and the review of thousands of documents.

However, scrutiny within the walls of the U.S. Supreme Court to determine who leaked Justice Samuel Alito’s draft majority in the abortion case earlier this month, should not take this long.

Attorney’s appearing on television all echoed that the leaker must be quickly identified and punished, voicing the existing distrust and the serious potential of threatening public confidence in the Court.  The media is already reflecting the left’s belief that the Court has become too conservative.

The leaker is most likely someone who opposes the majority view, who sought outside pressure to bear on the Court to turn one of the justices.

Most discussion leads to the fact that the leaker is a clerk, one of three dozen individuals who do the legal research for the justices, but the longer the investigation drags out, the more speculation surfaces; even leading to the wild consideration that it could be one of the three liberal judges?

It’s hard to believe that one of them would so damage the Court with such a foolish unprecedented move, but such a scenario is not out of the question.

There’s little doubt that the punishment will be severe.  Disbarment for someone studying law would not be out of the question.  “If I ever discover that you have betrayed the confidences of what goes on in these chambers,” said the late Justice Antonin Scalia, “I will do everything in my power to ruin our career.”

The Supreme Court leaker must be identified and punished, with no further delay.

Note to President Biden

Mr. President, remember when you travelled to Atlanta on January 11, 2022, calling for the passage of the Freedom to Vote Act?  Take my word for it.  You did.

You said the new laws passed by Republicans, like Voter ID, were “designed to suppress your vote, to subvert our elections,” and that “they’re making it harder for you to vote by mail.”  You were wrong.  Voting laws in Georgia are less restrictive than your beloved Delaware.

I know that you read the Washington Post, but you may have missed the article, “Voting is surging in Georgia despite controversial new election law.”  As it turns out, Mr. President, you were peddling more lies to satisfy your progressive advisors.

Near the end of the article, a surprised Patsy Reid, a 70-year-old, black retired woman, spoke to the fact that she “didn’t encounter problems when she voted early.”  She had heard the reports of voter suppression against people of color in Georgia.  Thanks to your disinformation campaign.

“To go in there and vote as easily as I did and to be treated with the respect that I deserved as an American citizen, I was really thrown back,” Reid added.

Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America.