I think that justice can triumph, but once we are through the crisis of the next two years we will need to make changes even more sweeping than anyone's currently talking about.
I think we will be able to see more clearly how to make changes once we’re on the ‘other side’ of this. The guardrails collapsed because of people. People who put him in place; people who try to use him for their benefit. But it is people / judges in many of the lower federal courts and some states who are not wavering.
It is difficult to craft changes that can’t be abused by someone and turned on their head in the future. We’ll know more when we aren’t reacting to & existing in a crisis.
You are correct about the changes that need to be made. We especially need to amend the 25th Amendment, which is totally inadequate - actually useless - in the current situation.
Yup. Cabinets long ago were not grovelers. More recently the Senate has failed to do its job when it needed to give “advice & consent. Therefore he nominates and most of the Senate approves what we have now. Even if the Senate hadn’t failed its due diligence, this Senate did and would again fail to have the 2/3 necessary to remove him.
Seriously, Steven, the answer to your question is… I have to believe that Justice can triumph. It’s the only wormhole that we have now. It is the place we can all gather to actively pool our collective grief and rage into some kind of transformative experience. For now, I will cast aside my cynicism and doubt in favor of a childlike faith in Justice. We cannot allow it to be disfigured by this regime. Let’s pray for its restoration as an ideal and do the ongoing work its implementation requires. “Justice, Justice, you shall pursue.”
I believe that all these decisions upholding the laws will serve as the stone in Trump's shoe and drive him over the edge into making more and more outrageous, dangerous, and mentally disturbed decisions. We need to be prepared for that. He will eventually self-implode.
Justice MUST triumph if we are to survive as a nation. But will it, having been sorely tested by the majority on the highest court in the land who are complicit with the corrupt, venomous traitor whom they have permitted to be installed as our President?
The short answer is that justice will prevail if enough of us rise up in abhorrence.
It's been an uphill battle since the founding of the Republic, with some victories (like the post–Civil War amendments, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the mid-1960s, Roe v. Wade) and plenty of setbacks (like Jim Crow, the anti-"Red" hysteria after World War I [has it ever ended?], Executive Order 9066 [internment of Japanese Americans during World War II], the election of Ronald Reagan [has *it* ever ended?], Citizens United v. FEC, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization). I think justice *can* triumph, but whether it *will* is open to question. Much depends on whether we keep working and fighting for it.
I keep trying to have optimism, but the members of this regime just ignore rulings they don't like, and they're not enforced. Who else gets to do that? Certainly not any of us lowly peasants.
The felon should have been hauled off to jail on January 6. Instead, he got put into office a second time. Crikey, a felon was not allowed to run for mayor of Scranton, for heaven's sake.
For instance and in contrast, I pay my taxes and my bills, my cars are registered, inspected, and insured, I license and leash my dogs, and I don't steal things.
He doesn’t ignore all of them. He tries to work around them. It’s the court rulings that made him pull the military out of cities & drop the giant tariffs. Yes, he tried to work around the tariffs but he just got a lower court ruling against “global” tariffs because they are illegal. Clearly illegal.
I believe we need to balance our cynicism with acknowledgments of his failures to avoid giving him power he doesn’t have.
Ok these are good steps in the right direction. Let’s hold up the Kennedy Center as an example of the man baby. He has said: if I can’t have my name on it, the American people cannot have it either. This screams: this man is in power only for himself. He doesn’t give a crap about the people.
This should be one of the messages of the fall campaign for Congress. Why should we not use Shame as a motivating tool to get people to act correctly?
It may come down to the Supreme Court finding the courage to do the right thing. A long shot, I know
I don’t know. The law is pretty clear. At least not so far he’s posted things like this:
— “Judge Cooper should be ashamed of himself!” Trump added. “I cannot be involved with a situation where danger to the Public is allowed to flourish in plain and open sight.”
(Of course we’ll have to see how Congress handles this new mandate. Good chance Congress will do as it did with his desire for a $250 dollar bill. The resolution to allow living persons to be on currency has been in committee since it was introduced in February 2025.)
In the words of Theodore Parker, “I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice." Yesterday we saw a glimpse the moral universe in action, for which we may have renewed hope. In addition to being thankful for those judges standing up for the rule of law, we can also be thankful for the handful of Republican members of Congress who are willing to break ranks with Trump and stand against the fruits of his towering ego. And thankful, too, in an ironic way for Trump’s idiocy that causes us to see what we lose when we do not make character the deciding factor at the ballot box.
Yes, I do believe that justice can triumph. This is a letter (below) I wrote to the Supreme Court Justices of the state of Kansas last year in April. I never got a response from any of them and really didn't expect too, but it doesn't matter I voiced my opinion. My gut tells me the justices do not like what they are seeing within the legal community and are doing the right thing. I can't speak for the SCOTUS justices, but I know not all of them are onboard with what is transpiring within their profession. If the majority of justices across the land abandon the citizens and law, then we will have lost the country and lawlessness will prevail...........I don't think we or they are ready for that and I sure as hell hope not.
Your writing makes me think I should reach out to them again with my opinion.
I have never written to a Judge in my life and certainly not to the group of Kansas Supreme Court Justices, until now.
I am writing today to express my gravest concern for the rule of law and what I’m witnessing unfold with the President of the United States and the fate of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his deportation to the El Salvadoran Cecot prison with no due process. I fear for him as if I were in his shoes, because if he can be yanked off the street and ferreted out of the country then I or any one of us could be. If he has no justice, then we are soon to have no justice either as a people or nation.
I don’t know what you can do about this injustice, but impeachment of the President would be a just remedy I would support and recommend. My hope here is that you are getting like responses to this crisis by other constituents here in the State of Kansas and I wanted to be on the record of saying this is not justice served.
As a 76-year-old veteran I cannot be silent because I took an oath in 1967 to defend this country and what it stood for, not this.
BTW, you wouldn’t / shouldn’t get a response or much of one because judges are not to discuss cases, specific legal matters (like impeachment), things could become cases or offer opinions that could indicate bias. I guess the easiest route is silence.
I mentioned that I didn't expect a response and you are correct, they don't respond for exactly the reason you pointed out. At the time I just felt it was within my civic duty to write to them, and I should probably do it again. Thanks for your response.
It’s a good question but he doesn’t appear willing to fight it. There have been quite a few federal court rulings that he lost, both against individuals and his actions. Some he tried to work around and others he did not. (For instance after one SCOTUS ruling he pulled the military out from cities and claimed their work was done. Not acknowledging the ruling was the motivator.)
There were 2 parts to the ruling -
• One the 2 week deadline to get his name off the building. Apparently he knew or was advised adding his name was illegal because in court his attorneys tried to argue it was merely a “nickname.”
• The other is that the board did not show they’d done sufficient due diligence on the renovations so that work is halted.
• Drumpf’s response is: “Judge Cooper should be ashamed of himself! … I cannot be involved with a situation where danger to the Public is allowed to flourish in plain and open sight.” And that he’s turning control over to Congress.
Justice is triumphing, by and large. It is not universal, but what is? The flood the zone with malignant nonsense is designed to overwhelm a slow moving (by design) system. And the top court is obviously an issue.
How and when do we stop the corruption in the Trump Administration that occurs on a daily basis? The insider trading, and commodity trading based on comments from Trump on a daily basis.
Justice will be served when this corruption is stopped and Trump is impeached and convicted.
The $1.776B that is halted is a piece of the corruption. So were the tariff that let him, his family & ‘negotiators’ use the tariff threat to make side deals. He’s still peeved about the ruling that stopped them & mentioned it in a rant about taking his name of the Kennedy Center & the renovation closure decision.
However, he could not do these things without the acquiescence of Congress and his appointees. Therefore, it is not going to end on its own. The people were the last guardrail and they chose him & the Congressional majority which either ignores or rubber stamps almost everything he does. Next opportunity for course correction coming up soon. Corruption will play a part because when people are hurting they are not as willing to shrug it off. How much of a correction is the question.
I want very much to believe, but it’s getting harder and harder. We know they will shop judges until they find one who will reverse these decisions. Maybe the game ( and it is a game to him) is to get to the the Supreme Court where his buddies there will let him do what he wants. I’m becoming very cynical about it all and that is what depresses me the most.
You can’t make this stuff up…cage fights on the south lawn with only the fittest military troops allowed (expected) to attend in full dress, after paying their own way to get there ? Really ? REALLY ??
I was thinking about this very question on my walk this morning. When you consider how numerous and well installed the Epstein class is, the notion of being able to bring all these criminals to justice seems impossible. And I believe that it is, because they pervade everything. That doesn't mean that some justice will not be meted out, however, but only some. Not enough, not ever, unfortunately.
Hope in our Judicial system is all I’ve had for some time now, Steven. But, it seems, as long as further manipulation of the courts that continue to keep persons such as our fearless Grifter, (and all those complicit in the shameful foolishness that plagues our world these days) out of prison, that which once was HOPEful, now has to be seen to be believed.
I think that justice can triumph, but once we are through the crisis of the next two years we will need to make changes even more sweeping than anyone's currently talking about.
I think we will be able to see more clearly how to make changes once we’re on the ‘other side’ of this. The guardrails collapsed because of people. People who put him in place; people who try to use him for their benefit. But it is people / judges in many of the lower federal courts and some states who are not wavering.
It is difficult to craft changes that can’t be abused by someone and turned on their head in the future. We’ll know more when we aren’t reacting to & existing in a crisis.
You are correct about the changes that need to be made. We especially need to amend the 25th Amendment, which is totally inadequate - actually useless - in the current situation.
Yup. Cabinets long ago were not grovelers. More recently the Senate has failed to do its job when it needed to give “advice & consent. Therefore he nominates and most of the Senate approves what we have now. Even if the Senate hadn’t failed its due diligence, this Senate did and would again fail to have the 2/3 necessary to remove him.
Seriously, Steven, the answer to your question is… I have to believe that Justice can triumph. It’s the only wormhole that we have now. It is the place we can all gather to actively pool our collective grief and rage into some kind of transformative experience. For now, I will cast aside my cynicism and doubt in favor of a childlike faith in Justice. We cannot allow it to be disfigured by this regime. Let’s pray for its restoration as an ideal and do the ongoing work its implementation requires. “Justice, Justice, you shall pursue.”
I believe that all these decisions upholding the laws will serve as the stone in Trump's shoe and drive him over the edge into making more and more outrageous, dangerous, and mentally disturbed decisions. We need to be prepared for that. He will eventually self-implode.
Justice MUST triumph if we are to survive as a nation. But will it, having been sorely tested by the majority on the highest court in the land who are complicit with the corrupt, venomous traitor whom they have permitted to be installed as our President?
The short answer is that justice will prevail if enough of us rise up in abhorrence.
It's been an uphill battle since the founding of the Republic, with some victories (like the post–Civil War amendments, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the mid-1960s, Roe v. Wade) and plenty of setbacks (like Jim Crow, the anti-"Red" hysteria after World War I [has it ever ended?], Executive Order 9066 [internment of Japanese Americans during World War II], the election of Ronald Reagan [has *it* ever ended?], Citizens United v. FEC, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization). I think justice *can* triumph, but whether it *will* is open to question. Much depends on whether we keep working and fighting for it.
I keep trying to have optimism, but the members of this regime just ignore rulings they don't like, and they're not enforced. Who else gets to do that? Certainly not any of us lowly peasants.
The felon should have been hauled off to jail on January 6. Instead, he got put into office a second time. Crikey, a felon was not allowed to run for mayor of Scranton, for heaven's sake.
For instance and in contrast, I pay my taxes and my bills, my cars are registered, inspected, and insured, I license and leash my dogs, and I don't steal things.
What kind of fool am I? Hmm. Could be a song.
He doesn’t ignore all of them. He tries to work around them. It’s the court rulings that made him pull the military out of cities & drop the giant tariffs. Yes, he tried to work around the tariffs but he just got a lower court ruling against “global” tariffs because they are illegal. Clearly illegal.
I believe we need to balance our cynicism with acknowledgments of his failures to avoid giving him power he doesn’t have.
Ok these are good steps in the right direction. Let’s hold up the Kennedy Center as an example of the man baby. He has said: if I can’t have my name on it, the American people cannot have it either. This screams: this man is in power only for himself. He doesn’t give a crap about the people.
This should be one of the messages of the fall campaign for Congress. Why should we not use Shame as a motivating tool to get people to act correctly?
It may come down to the Supreme Court finding the courage to do the right thing. A long shot, I know
I don’t know. The law is pretty clear. At least not so far he’s posted things like this:
— “Judge Cooper should be ashamed of himself!” Trump added. “I cannot be involved with a situation where danger to the Public is allowed to flourish in plain and open sight.”
The president said he has ordered the Commerce Department to “make all necessary arrangements” to grant Congress authority over the institution’s upkeep. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5902386-trump-blasts-judge-kennedy-center-ruling/
(Of course we’ll have to see how Congress handles this new mandate. Good chance Congress will do as it did with his desire for a $250 dollar bill. The resolution to allow living persons to be on currency has been in committee since it was introduced in February 2025.)
In the words of Theodore Parker, “I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice." Yesterday we saw a glimpse the moral universe in action, for which we may have renewed hope. In addition to being thankful for those judges standing up for the rule of law, we can also be thankful for the handful of Republican members of Congress who are willing to break ranks with Trump and stand against the fruits of his towering ego. And thankful, too, in an ironic way for Trump’s idiocy that causes us to see what we lose when we do not make character the deciding factor at the ballot box.
Yes, I do believe that justice can triumph. This is a letter (below) I wrote to the Supreme Court Justices of the state of Kansas last year in April. I never got a response from any of them and really didn't expect too, but it doesn't matter I voiced my opinion. My gut tells me the justices do not like what they are seeing within the legal community and are doing the right thing. I can't speak for the SCOTUS justices, but I know not all of them are onboard with what is transpiring within their profession. If the majority of justices across the land abandon the citizens and law, then we will have lost the country and lawlessness will prevail...........I don't think we or they are ready for that and I sure as hell hope not.
Your writing makes me think I should reach out to them again with my opinion.
Ref: Justice for Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Justice Stegall, Justice Rosen, Justice Wilson, Justice Wall, Justice Luckert, and Justice Standridge,
I have never written to a Judge in my life and certainly not to the group of Kansas Supreme Court Justices, until now.
I am writing today to express my gravest concern for the rule of law and what I’m witnessing unfold with the President of the United States and the fate of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his deportation to the El Salvadoran Cecot prison with no due process. I fear for him as if I were in his shoes, because if he can be yanked off the street and ferreted out of the country then I or any one of us could be. If he has no justice, then we are soon to have no justice either as a people or nation.
I don’t know what you can do about this injustice, but impeachment of the President would be a just remedy I would support and recommend. My hope here is that you are getting like responses to this crisis by other constituents here in the State of Kansas and I wanted to be on the record of saying this is not justice served.
As a 76-year-old veteran I cannot be silent because I took an oath in 1967 to defend this country and what it stood for, not this.
Thank you for listening to my concern.
Sincerely,
Willaim & Susan Corbett
I think your gut is correct.
BTW, you wouldn’t / shouldn’t get a response or much of one because judges are not to discuss cases, specific legal matters (like impeachment), things could become cases or offer opinions that could indicate bias. I guess the easiest route is silence.
Ann,
I mentioned that I didn't expect a response and you are correct, they don't respond for exactly the reason you pointed out. At the time I just felt it was within my civic duty to write to them, and I should probably do it again. Thanks for your response.
how will the decisions be enforced?
It’s a good question but he doesn’t appear willing to fight it. There have been quite a few federal court rulings that he lost, both against individuals and his actions. Some he tried to work around and others he did not. (For instance after one SCOTUS ruling he pulled the military out from cities and claimed their work was done. Not acknowledging the ruling was the motivator.)
There were 2 parts to the ruling -
• One the 2 week deadline to get his name off the building. Apparently he knew or was advised adding his name was illegal because in court his attorneys tried to argue it was merely a “nickname.”
• The other is that the board did not show they’d done sufficient due diligence on the renovations so that work is halted.
• Drumpf’s response is: “Judge Cooper should be ashamed of himself! … I cannot be involved with a situation where danger to the Public is allowed to flourish in plain and open sight.” And that he’s turning control over to Congress.
Justice is triumphing, by and large. It is not universal, but what is? The flood the zone with malignant nonsense is designed to overwhelm a slow moving (by design) system. And the top court is obviously an issue.
Thanks for another report that gives your readers renewed hope, Steven!
How and when do we stop the corruption in the Trump Administration that occurs on a daily basis? The insider trading, and commodity trading based on comments from Trump on a daily basis.
Justice will be served when this corruption is stopped and Trump is impeached and convicted.
The $1.776B that is halted is a piece of the corruption. So were the tariff that let him, his family & ‘negotiators’ use the tariff threat to make side deals. He’s still peeved about the ruling that stopped them & mentioned it in a rant about taking his name of the Kennedy Center & the renovation closure decision.
However, he could not do these things without the acquiescence of Congress and his appointees. Therefore, it is not going to end on its own. The people were the last guardrail and they chose him & the Congressional majority which either ignores or rubber stamps almost everything he does. Next opportunity for course correction coming up soon. Corruption will play a part because when people are hurting they are not as willing to shrug it off. How much of a correction is the question.
I want very much to believe, but it’s getting harder and harder. We know they will shop judges until they find one who will reverse these decisions. Maybe the game ( and it is a game to him) is to get to the the Supreme Court where his buddies there will let him do what he wants. I’m becoming very cynical about it all and that is what depresses me the most.
You can’t make this stuff up…cage fights on the south lawn with only the fittest military troops allowed (expected) to attend in full dress, after paying their own way to get there ? Really ? REALLY ??
I was thinking about this very question on my walk this morning. When you consider how numerous and well installed the Epstein class is, the notion of being able to bring all these criminals to justice seems impossible. And I believe that it is, because they pervade everything. That doesn't mean that some justice will not be meted out, however, but only some. Not enough, not ever, unfortunately.
Hope in our Judicial system is all I’ve had for some time now, Steven. But, it seems, as long as further manipulation of the courts that continue to keep persons such as our fearless Grifter, (and all those complicit in the shameful foolishness that plagues our world these days) out of prison, that which once was HOPEful, now has to be seen to be believed.