You wanna know how stupid I was at age 18? When I first stood on the steps of the SCOTUS,

[Atticus]

looked up and read "EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW" carved in marble, I actually thought that meant something!

Can you imagine? I thought the Court was the ultimate guarantor of our rights as Americans!

Go ahead---laugh. I'm getting used to it.

[dchill]

1. It is to weep.

[Phoenix61]

2. Not sure what year that was but it's clear that is no longer the case. nt

[Dustlawyer]

5. Unfortunately, it never has been yet!

[niyad]

3. You believed in the myth, as so many did. You believed that our institutions

would hold. That is not stupid, that is what our civics and history classes taught. Only the cynical and pessimistic thought otherwise.

[dalton99a]

4. It became a GOP whorehouse in 2000

[Kid Berwyn]

6. The spooks.

HERBLOCK: https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/herblocks-history/one.html

[MineralMan]

7. I'm not laughing.

Elect Democrats!

[Elessar Zappa]

8. That's the only solution.

Volunteer, donate, and vote, people!

[MineralMan]

9. Always has been.

That's why unity matters.

[CaptainTruth]

12. +1000

[reACTIONary]

13. +100 nt

[In It to Win It]

10. It's decorative. That's all

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Me tooo. I went on my senior class trip , with my 51 classmates, to D.C. We toured the Capitol, WH,

National Archives, and saw the monuments and SCOTUS building. I was in awe. I was 17. It was 1966.

[hedda_foil]

14. For a time, it was.

[plimsoll]

15. I don't think you're stupid.

I think the people that have undone that belief in America are evil.
They may view their actions as righteous but they are wrong.
The GOP flunkies like to say "We're a republic not a democracy," when they clearly don't know what a republic is. These latest rulings are so painfully skewed towards the GOP elite that they might as well declare themselves the nobility.

You weren't stupid, you and all the rest of us were robbed. And their fan boys are out there cheering now, but they'll be unhappy when the nobles decide that they can take their houses because they want them.

Frankly those 6 aspire to deplorable, because they are that good.

[Pepsidog]

16. The lower courts held while SCOTUS crumbled to the ground.

In college around 1983 I did a semester at American U and interned for a US Senator. My small group got to meet Justice Blackmun, a Republican and Nixon appointee, after observing, oral arguments in his chambers. Total gentleman, soft spoken and made us feel welcome.curious how he would feel today reading Alito’s trash opinion. I also met and debated Rudy while he was a top man at DOJ about drugs and crime. He was a creep back then.

[flashman13]

17. I felt the same way under the Warren and Burger courts

[Aussie105]

18. Welcome to the real world, Neo!

It's not as perfect as it is made out to be.

Just your usual propaganda for internal USA consumption - part of growing up from a starry eyed teenager is to realise you have been fed simplified and idealized propaganda for years.

Welcome to the real world!

[barbtries]

19. i was the same way.

i can remember walking and thinking to myself, I really do live in the best country. I'm so lucky.
Naive, dumb, oblivious. Whew I do not feel that way anymore, and that's been true at least since gw.

[Hortensis]

20. At 18 were you the kind of person who would have fought to

enshrine that principle in our new institutions if you'd been around when those who did were? Or one of those who laughed at them and insisted it could never happen?

[RANDYWILDMAN]

21. Before 2000 it had a chance

since Bush v Gore the court is full right wing political.

Two very fishy elections cost the US sane voters 5 seats and we got some serious numbskulls instead of thoughtful jurists.

[Bucky]

22. I WISH I had rights equal to the rights of guns, corporations, & proselytizing football coaches

[A HERETIC I AM]

23. We don't have a "Justice System" in this country.

We have a Legal system.

It's been clear for a very long time that with very few exceptions, the rich get different (mostly favorable to them) outcomes in the courts than the poor do.