Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Annette Ziegler invoked Korematsu v. the United States, the Supreme Court case which upheld Japanese-American internment during World War II, in the midst of oral arguments centered on the state’s stay-at-home order Tuesday.
Korematsu, often cited as one of the worst Supreme Court decisions ever made
Not often enough.
What’d I tell ya? And she’s not the one leaving, either.
All from the comfort of her own home office.
I highly doubt their will be books and movies in the following decades about how inhuman it was to be stuck at home watching Netflix and not being able to go to T.G.I.Fridays.
Except the Japanese who were interned weren’t epidemiologically going to kill themselves and others if allowed to go about their business.
The GOP has become a death cult. They’ve abandoned reason.
And that’s the point that needs to be pummeled home on this. Will the legal team have the presence of thought to make it?
Harpy.
Here the repellent harpies make their nests,
Who drove the Trojans from the Strophades
With dire announcements of the coming woe.
They have broad wings, with razor sharp talons and a human neck and face,
Clawed feet and swollen, feathered bellies; they caw
Their lamentations in the eerie trees
Hmmmmm. Remind me of why this hearing was held on Zoom, would you?
Now republicans are “Pro-Choice!”
For me, it feels as if the wheels have fallen off America and we’re just continuing to skid forward on inertia. It’s not rational. It’s an attempt at describing my dejection.
With this kind of logic, my State will be open tomorrow and many more behind it as this pending decision with this kind of logic will become a precedent.
The Japanese had to pack their belongings into a suitcase, boarded buses and trains, and were taken to internment camps. Most all lost everything they h-ad houses businesses and personal possessions. They were not allowed to leave the camps for groceries, prescriptions, illness. They were American citizens. Wisconsinites are free to worship in their homes, talk on phones, engage with others via video chats Staying home is a matter of civic duty to protect others and mostly to keep our health care system from being overwhelmed. There is no concept of civic duty or doing something for the good of others. These people are self absorbed monsters.
It isn’t called the Guardians Of Pandemics for nothin’.
Dare I hope for an impeachment proceeding among the sentient Wisconsinites after this performance? Dare I hope?
Does Wisconsin have suicide prevention laws. Just asking?
Well, sure.
But as for Judge Ziegler in particular:
She was appointed to the bench by a Republican governor.
She has made and joined in some awful decisions.
She has been re-elected unopposed several times, including recently.
Except some have wedged a cinder block onto the accelerator.
That analogy is moronic. An analogy is rhetorically effective only insofar as there are points in parallel. Arresting people for placement in internment camps is not anything remotely like social distancing to prevent the spread of disease.
This justice has to be dumb as a rock.
As long as the lawyers can undo her analogy, all should be well, but that won’t stop her from voting in favor of lifting the order.