The Supremes
Perhaps I would be safer writing about those other Supremes. You know, the Diana Ross ones, but I’ve never been one to shirk my duty. One might think it presumptuous for me to opine about the holy of holies, the highest court in the land, but I’m no stranger to the Court, the Constitution, or its rulings thereupon. Unlike most of the great unwashed in our land, I’ve actually studied the relationship between our Constitution and the law as interpreted by the Court. For I, you see, took Constitutional Law 101.It was in the spring of 1963 to be exact. Dr. S. was the professor whose job it was to introduce a group of twenty or so mostly reluctant students to...Out of the Mouths of….
I’ve been watching political town halls late. Yes, I know that it’s geeky and more than a little strange. I would counter that it’s political theatre of the highest order. Wow. The anger, the finger pointing, the squinting of eyes, and yes, screaming and shouting. It makes you think that maybe we got the 1st Amendment wrong. None of us who are drawing breath and have electricity can have avoided images of citizens remonstrating, protesting, shouting, and arm waving at their political representatives, and the cameras lurking nearby at these so called Town Hall meetings. These gatherings were ostensibly intended to engage in a civil...