Hypocrisy in Plain Sight, Updated

(Update: On September 18, 2020, Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg died at the age of 87. She died from Pancreatic cancer. She served on the Court for 27 years.)

In forty or 50 years from now, or maybe a century or two, if humans survive at all, historians will look back with somewhat bemused amazement at the first fifth of the 21 century and collectively say, ‘ what the ever-loving heck were they thinking?’

They’re not even hiding it anymore. It’s all right there.

In 2016, after the death of Antonin “Anthony” Scalia, Mitch McConnell blocked President Obama’s pick of Merrick Garland to fill a vacant Supreme Court seat. He said “the American people should have a voice” in filling the seat in an election year.

When it appeared that Hillary Clinton was going to become President, McConnell proclaimed that no seat would be filled as long as he was Majority Leader. He would let the Court wither down rather than allow a Democratic president, especially the reviled Clinton fill vacancies.

Well, old six-chin Mitchie, in the end, got what he and all his friends in the Federalist Society (and the equally vile Grover Norquist) wanted in Donald Trump. A man “with enough working (fingers) to sign and do what we want,” and that’s how we ended up with a tax cut for the wealthy and two Supreme Court judges who would exonerate Attila the Hun in a pinch. Or Michael Flynn.