Supreme Court Abolishes July 4th as Freedoms Day

I should be happy today. It is Americans 'Freedoms Day'. But it is no more.

As a member of the Supreme Court bar, I am horrified by the direction of the high Court I once revered. The Court has lost its legal compass.

The Supreme Court -- with its Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (women's reproductive freedom), Kennedy v. Bremerton School Dist. (prayer in public schools, Carson v. Makin (government funding of religion), American Legion v. American Humanist Association (2019) (Christian cross on public property), etc. decisions -- has abolished major American freedoms and taken us back to the "bad old days."

I support expanding the Supreme Court to thirteen justices and appointing four justices that understand the virtue of freedom for all (not just Christians).

Supreme Court Guts First Amendment's Establishment Clause

The six Christian nationalists on the U.S. Supreme Court predictably violated their oaths of office and held today in Carson v. Makin that Maine cannot deny funding religious schools. Denying funding of religious institutions is the cornerstone of the First Amendment's establishment clause (made applicable to the States via the 14th Amendment): "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Barrett should be impeached as they have clearly exhibited "bad behavior." 

Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented -- Justice Sotomayor writing: “This Court continues to dismantle the wall of separation between church and state that the Framers fought to build.”