Robing October

U.S. Supreme Court
Drawing by Dana Verkouteren
From the Associated Press

as the temperature cools
robes come off the hook
wings flare from the bench
aligning themselves
right and left
constitutional credos
asserting themselves
hard and soft

as summer evaporates
judicial temperament
comes back as rain
to settle the dry restive soil
collecting in puddles
of rank jurisprudence
originalist or activist
catchments of justice

as day becomes equal
to night and the leaves
turn divided to red or to gold
all it takes is that one
orange leaf to fall
landing where law
and where life
will forever be changed

Affluenza

Judge Jean Boyd
Photo from yourhonor.com

WTF????!!!! I simply cannot contain my outrage.

Drunken teen, with three times the legal blood-alcohol limit, driving more than twice the legal speed limit, kills four people and cripples two more.

His defense is that he was too coddled by an overly-insular, affluent upbringing to have properly learned right from wrong, to have learned that actions have consequences.

And the idiotic judge actually bought into this bullshit. Texas State District Judge Jean Boyd gave him ten years of probation and a six-month stint undergoing “therapy” in a five-star facility, replete with fine resort amenities, where the so-called therapy includes things such as horseback riding and tennis.

This judge is an execrable disgrace and needs to be summarily removed by whatever means is available in Texas.

And if one of the victims had been my loved one, I wouldn’t hesitate to take the now brazenly nullified law into my own two hands, and mete out directly this snot-nosed little bastard’s due measure of justice. And I’d do so with a full understanding of the consequences I would have to face. Without justice, there can be no civilization worth standing.