Among all the truly putrid belchings of “The Hind-Rocket” — this one likely wouldn’t make a top twenty list, but I’ll note it for the record this morning.

Last evening, in the course of lauding the Supremes’ general boot-licking for a Mal-Administration — the likes of which we’ve not seen since… Nixon (well — EVER!), John offered this concluding paragraph, in orange below:

…This year’s Supreme Court term produced mixed results. There were some notable victories for conservatives, but also important defeats, the birthright citizenship case being first on that list. Perhaps the most notable feature of the term was the solidarity of the three Democrat-appointed justices, who voted as a bloc with their party in just about every case that had partisan impact….

I do expect a “Post Watergate-style” Congress when we win both chambers this Fall, and just as that 1973 Congress stripped away the excesses Nixon had tried and failed to impose, by fiat — this coming Congress will ratchet back the worst of the Supremes’ decisions, on the Voting Rights Act, in particular — and likely, on Trumpian gutting of federal budgets created and mandated solely by the Congress.

I would expect a “new ethics in government” package of legislation — after it becomes more widely known that Trump and his sons have personally profited to the tune of over $2.2 BILLION — in trading on information about actions he would take — and in directly soliciting investments/bribes in exchange for pardons, commutations or favorable treatment at the agency levels (mostly by unfriendly/frenemy foreign powers), here during Tangerine 2.0.

Maybe I’m an optimist, but I expect that will come to pass. So I am not overly nervous about the future of our 250 years of experimenting, in democracy.

I note, however — that three Justices vote as a block, for both ot Tangerine 1.0 and 2.0… BECAUSE his objectives… and the means he uses… are flagrantly unlawful.

They vote against lawlessness. And in contrast… Alito/Thomas? Almost never.

The liberal three are usually joined by Roberts, in voting down the most egregious of Trump’s lawless corruption / power grabs and slush fund attempts.

But not always. And that will be a stain on the Roberts court for another 250 years.

But it is poppycock to say that Kagan/Jackson/Sotomayor are voting politics. They are the only ones still uniformly upholding well settled law.

Just calling balls and strikes.

Here endeth the sermon.

Out — with soccer / jumbotron tonight in the steamy park — then an independence day celebration, at which orange hues are… verboten. Smile.