Other than the person who made you feel loved and safe or the one who received that grace from you yesterday, the most important thing in our sphere of influence was the action of the SCOTUS to remove your power to choose your government. The decision in Trump v. United States is the latest attack on voting supported by this Court.
We are within 4 months of losing the great American Experiment of a government of the people, by the people and for the people, a government in which the people choose to live under the rule of law applied to one and all. We are barely 248 years old. Our constitutional democracy is only 235 years old, yet it is the longest surviving written charter of government.1
Still striving toward equitable and just application of this value, of people’s right to establish their government, the highest court of our nation proved the Experiment is only as strong as the ethical and moral character of its sole unelected officials who hold the power to interpret the law. There is one avenue of redress.
We may vote for candidates in every office,
top to bottom, who reject the notion of presidential immunity.
We must.
Demand that your candidates, from the school boards to the presidency, declare their commitment to equal justice under the law for every office, and the Supreme and Federal court benches.
Vote for democracy. Let’s make it to 250!
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1 https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/senate-and-constitution/constitution.htm
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