"The fencing around the Supreme Court separates us from them. The many from the few. The majority of Americans who believe that Roe v. Wade should be upheld and the minority who do not. The justices have the mandate to help our democracy wrestle with never-imagined cultural change and social evolution. We are desperate for them to exhibit intellectual rigor. We wish them the wisdom and understanding of Solomon. We don’t so much as hold them in esteem as expect them to be worthy of our doing so.
"Instead, we’re left to wonder what they might unleash: A country of deepened inequality? A society that denies women self-determination? A court that sees little right to privacy? A court with a constituency defined by politics rather than fairness? A court to fear.
"The fencing may have been installed with the intent of keeping members of the court safe, but no fence can stave off the terrors the court has conjured in so many others." -- Robin Givhan, in today's Washington Post, on the "unreachable, inaccessible and frightening" Republican Supreme Court. We're a nation increasingly subject to the whims of an anti- democratic, ultra- reactionary minority. That mustn't stand.
