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Right to Do What Other People Do

The Supreme Court justices live in another, near-antique world

Right to Do What Other People Do
<b>ORIGINAL SPIN: </b> When a protester in court yelled gay marriage was “an abomination,” Scalia found it “refreshing.”

ANOTHER WORLD: The U.S. Supreme Court majority is composed of doh-doh heads, as we all have long realized. It’s not that they’re dumb. It’s just that they tend to live in a world that ended, for all intents and purposes, one or two centuries ago.

Barney Brantingham

Worse, they have life terms in the most undemocratic (or unrepublican, if you prefer) organ of our plutocracy.

Secrecy reigns. You can see practically anything on Earth and in the heavens through movies, computer, smartphone, boob tube, and YouTube, but you can’t watch the Supremes deliberate. It’s done in a private room with nary a single witness. Nor, unless you’re among the few allowed into the elite chambers, can you watch them argue a case or pompously announce a decision in their ridiculous royal robes. (They might as well wear wigs.)