John Kozy: The US Supreme Court and "The Rule of Flaw"

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust, its sole ammunition, the collective hupes of our society. Irving R Kaufman. The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution that has failed in every possible way. It is notorious for having issued iniquitous opinions. It has not only failed to resolve, but has exacerbated conflicts, and it has consistently negated the ideals the founding fathers wrote in the Preamble of the Constitution. The ultimate consequence is that any American is deluded, who believes that America can be changed substantively by using the electoral process. Identifying failed institutions is not difficult, changing them is. The Supreme Court of the United States, often referred to by the acronym SCOTUS in a veiled attempt to to personify it, is an institution that has failed in every possible way. It is notorious for having issued iniquitous opinions. It has not only failed to resolve but has exacerbated conflicts, and it has consistently negated the ideals the founding fathers wrote into the Preamble of the Constitution. SCOTUS, as far back as 1803, usurped the Constitution and converted the incipient enlightenment nation into an endarkened reactionary one. Some, of course, will disagree, who believe that SCOTUS is not a failed institution, but the American people are slowly but surely coming to the conclusion that it is: "Just 44 percent of Americans approve of the job the Supreme Court is doing, and three quarters say the justices' decisions are sometimes influenced by their personal or political views, according to a poll conducted by The New York Times and CBS News. Those findings are a fresh indication that the Court's standing with the public has slipped significantly in the past quarter century, according to surveys conducted by several polling organizations. Approval was as high as 66 percent in the late 1980s, and by 2000 approached 50 percent."