A Dreadful Supreme Court Decision–What to Do?

Someone at the Infowars site suggested that the 5 erring Supreme Court justices should be arrested for treason. (The post is here: http://www.infowars.com/call-for-immediate-arrest-of-5-supreme-court-justices-for-treason/ .)

I share some of his emotion, but Constitutionally speaking, the Supreme Court justices are immune to arrest until they are first impeached in the House of Representatives and tried and found guilty in the Senate, which would strip them of their seats.

(Although I suppose that they could be designated as “enemy combatants” and shipped off to Guantanamo.)

On the correct theory that this decision is so bad that it transcends bad decision-making, and crosses the line into the realm of bad behavior, the five erring justices should be impeached. As a first step in this direction, there should be a “sense of Congress” resolution declaring that this decision is wrong, and stating why.

One of the reasons that could be given is that the original “decision” granting personhood to corporations in 1886 is a fabrication–that is, a fraudulent headnote written into the casebook by the court reporter. (The case is “Santa Clara County v. the Southern Pacific Railroad”.) For the full story, see here:

http://www.commondreams.org/views02/1226-04.htm

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