Early on, when George Washington refused to be king, he did so in recognition of man’s worst instincts.
It wasn’t “if” early America would fall back under tyranny , the lawless caprice of monarchy, but when.
The powers of each were carefully delineated in the Constitution’s structural components, Articles I, II, and III , which wove an ingenious system of checks and balances among the three.
Justice Alito, basking in the largess of guns and big oil , claims Congress is powerless to impose ethics on the Supreme Court.
Alito also voted to dismantle EPA climate protections while his wife was profiting from fossil fuel sales on family land.
The code only looks forward, not backward, and there are no penalties and no provisions for investigating Alito and Thomas’ conduct anyway.
It seems we’re under an unelected monarchy after all. »
