This is Brandy's answer to a question she had in school. She never ceases to amaze or inspire me. If this doesn't make you want to know more about who is making decisions in this country...nothing will.
"Though extremely necessary and important to American citizens, offering protection from unconstitutional and unprecedented laws, the Supreme Court has gone way too far. First of all who are these people serving on the Supreme Court? They’re unelected, they’re virtually unaccountable, they’re largely unknown to most Americans, and they serve for life. Here are just a few (though I could go on): John Rutledge- This was a man, chief justice by the way, who was so deep in depression he made two failed suicide attempts and it has been said that “his mind was frequently so much deranged, as to be in a great measure deprived of his senses.” Henry Baldwin, appointed by Andrew Jackson in 1830, was hospitalized for what was refer to as ‘incurable lunacy” and missed one term on the Court before returning to service for eleven more years until his death. There is no official photograph for the Court of 1924 because Justice James C. McReynolds refused to stand next to the Court’s first Jewish justice, Lewis Brandeis. McReynolds stated he didn’t want the Court to be “plagued with another Jew.” He would leave the room whenever Brandeis would speak and was also openly hostile toward the second Jewish justice. Justice Hugo Black was a member of the Ku Klux Klan… enough said. It is only necessary for five of these justices to dictate economic, cultural, criminal, and security policy for the entire nation, striking down those polices created by elected governing officials. I’m not sure about you, but I wouldn’t even want these people in charge of my dry cleaning."
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