Larry Cervelli: Time for Supreme Court action
Published: 02-04-2025 5:01 PM |
The Supreme Court created an individual, who by virtue of his elected office, can now consider his actions above the law that governs our rules and norms. The court expected possible exceptions to be judged by the court. Tradition says others should bring those cases to the court.
The far-right wing is now actively dismantling our government, abusing our employees, and launching more chaos by threatening our allies. It has been demonstrated that by issuing many executive orders simultaneously, our orderly system of governing, which has evolved over 250 years by compromise among elected representatives, can be quickly and easily short-circuited.
Given the monster the court has created, they should show some spine by not waiting for all the preliminary lawsuits and lower court rulings. They should recognize his unlawful behavior and respond to it in a timely, judicial way. They should stand up to the mythical Department of Government Efficiency and unappointed/unvetted Elon Musk and recognize that gaining access to the federal payment system is the same insurrection as those Jan. 6 convicts who stormed the Capitol.
1930s Germany is the lesson we should have learned about incremental government takeovers. The court should have the spine to address it before it overwhelms our entire rules-based system of government.
Larry Cervelli
West Chesterfield