05 July 2024 | Cry, the Unserious Country

America is not a serious country. Not at all.

I'm so old, I clearly remember Chief Justice Roberts "being concerned about his legacy and the reputation of the Court" and opposing "judicial activism" as being things that Democrats and Democratic supporters actually believed and relied on.

I am still...perplexed at the lack of reaction from the nation's lawyers about this astonishing Constitutional change from an unchecked branch of government. Now, either the scope of what has occurred still isn't registering, or no one can be bothered right now because they're on vacation.

Moreover, I see the same platitudes from Congressional Democrats about "what's at stake this November". Even if it may seem performative, why are there no moves to undo this damage on a legislative level, much less an explanation of what that looks like? What remedies are there to overturn this decision, which has reached Plessy v Ferguson levels of malpractice? God knows the Senate will take a dismissal from the Chief Justice to appear before a committee as "well, okay, we tried, whaddya gonna do?", and the entire thing is dropped. This presidential immunity decision is looking worse and worse as the days go by, but you certainly would not know it from the non-reaction of the public at large.

Unserious actions from an unserious country.