JUSTICE ELENA KAGAN
(TriceEdneyWire.com)—As I was growing up, I often heard people say, “We’ll have to take this to the Supreme Court!” That was because the thinking then was the Supreme Court was the final place our leaders could go seeking justice for our human rights. I haven’t heard that said for a very long time with good reason. Donald Trump’s Justices thought saving Trump from prosecution was a done deal.
They didn’t know that Justice Elena Kagan was going to be listening and asking, “Wasn’t the whole point of the Constitution that the President was not…supposed to be above the law?”
It seems that some on the Supreme Court missed that statement about their job, but Justice Kagan thankfully will not allow them to forget. The Democrats agree with Justice Kagan’s understanding of the Constitution, and it does not excuse Donald Trump for whom a lot of laws seem not to have been applied.
Can you even imagine the justification of anybody, not just Trump, that they could do anything they wanted to do—even oppose the United States Constitution? Can you imagine anybody walking down 5th Avenue, shooting somebody and bragging about the fact that there would be no consequences whatsoever? Can you imagine anybody being convicted of 34 crimes with a whole lot of other things still waiting to be convicted of becoming President of the United States?
I can’t imagine that, but I also can’t imagine any sane person voting for somebody like that! The fact that his opponent in the last Presidential election ran circles around him in education, work experience, normal behavior, and a long list of other great things she cared about doing good things for, but who were not millionaires, billionaires or trillionaires?
Well, strange things do happen, and we have people who have no knowledge of Trump’s record who voted for him. The second thing we had to deal with the past week was listening to Senatorial questions meant to find out if nominees were capable of telling the truth about their past statements and behavior. Even though we were taking the time to observe the great works of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and remembering all he did to move our country to honoring the purpose of our laws and the statement that says all men are created equally. Ultimately and presumably someday, the statement will be shown to mean it includes all genders, races and ethnic groups—but we’re still working on it.) However, it was never our understanding that somebody named Donald John Trump would come along and with no change in our laws or cherished documents would give him the title of King Donald John Trump and allow him to be exempt from our laws!
In the coming four years, we have a job to do. Aside from teaching our young people right from wrong, legal from illegal, selfishness from caring about others, we have a huge job to do. Instead of Trump worrying about DUI, equality for women and people of color, poor people, immigrants, we need to convince Donald Trump and his allies about right and wrong for all!
I encourage you to take a look at all the nominees Trump has put up for governing our lives for the next four years. Please put in a prayer for the entire administration to do better than they’ve planned to do, so we know what to expect and how our unity will help us through the intended misery planned for us. We haven’t heard from any of Trump’s nominees about their plans to do the right thing by people like us, but if we do the right thing, we can make a difference that benefits all of us. Don’t just stand by and accept wrongdoing. “It’s always time to do the right thing.” Resist wrongdoing!
(Dr. E. Faye Williams, President of The Dick Gregory Society.)
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