The LuLac Edition #4,456, December 14th, 2020

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Since 1789, or for 231 years, only 115 Americans have served on the Supreme Court. For a lawyer, it is the highest rung of the ladder. When you become a Supreme Court Justice, you get admitted to a rather exclusive club. That comes with responsibility not only to your profession but to your country.

The lawyers I know and respect go into this field because they have a moral commitment to the rule of law. To those political sup[porters who thought that these 9 lawyers (whatever their personal ideology) turned Supreme Court justices would all of a sudden abandon that belief, don’t really know America.

Like the rule of law, history is bigger than all of us. The Supreme Court in this case, 9-0, refused to hear the case because there was no legal standing. This is not the first time a President was told NO. In United States vs. Nixon, 8-0 (Justice Rehnquist recused himself because he was appointed by Nixon and came from that administration) that decision ordered our 37th President to deliver tape recordings and other subpoenaed materials to a federal district court.

But in this case, did anyone with critical thinking skills honestly think (except for those living in an alternate reality) that these men and women, at the pinnacle of their profession, knowing that history would judge them do otherwise?