On Monday acting U.S. Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall argued to the U.S. Supreme Court "that it is the sovereign's prerogative to define the political community". The case is about including illegal aliens in the House of Representatives reapportionment numbers derived from the census. The Trump administration wants to exclude them.
I nearly spit up my breakfast orange juice when I read that sentence. And then I looked up the definition of sovereign. Merriman-Webster defines it as "one possessing supreme political power".
As far as I know we do not have a sovereign. We fought a war to not be led by one back in 1776. I learned in my high school history class that the people have the supreme political power through the power of the vote. I assume Mr. Wall attended a constitutional law class when he was in law school or at the very least a high school civics class. But these days, you never know so I looked up his background. It turns out he actually taught high school civics. He is also a member of The Federalist Society, a group which argues for states rights and against "activist" rulings.
So how could he make that statement with a straight face? Who are all these people that think nothing of flushing our legal heritage down the drain in the pursuit of their goals, in this case making one man King? I don't know what's worse the ones acting or the ones staying silent (e.g. McConnell and almost the entire Republican Party).
And who are the nincompoops who would give away their power? They stand on the state house steps with their signs, waving their Trump flags and proclaim they were cheated and want the Supreme Court to give them their King. Didn't they attend high school civics, too?
Oh wait. They must have attended Jeffery Wall's class.
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