Visiting that li’l Supreme Court in brain
In a column published online today, Shawn Vestal of The Spokesman-Review unveils where the Far Right gets its notions of legality and constitutionality:
Now it can be told. If you have sometimes wondered where those on the borderlands of the political right get their notions of legality and constitutionality – whether it’s that federal land is illegitimate or that the separation of church and state is a myth – you can wonder no more. They don’t simply make them up. They don’t simply absorb them from the mid-1950s rantings of paranoid anti-communists. No, there is a special Supreme Court – a tiny, tiny Supreme Court – that provides legal cover for weak ideas. And it lives in Sage Dixon’s head. More here.
DFO: Am I the only one who thinks that the little-Supreme Court-in-my brain will become part of Idaho’s vernacular long after Sage Dixon has left the Legislature. Sorta like Butch’s “not only no, but hell no.” Thoughts?
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