<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:18px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px;">While Joe Biden is on the way out of power, we are stuck with the self-preservation efforts of the MAGA majority of the Supreme Court.</div><div style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px;">The worst thing Biden ever did was letting Justice Thomas grab his lifetime seat on the Court. Now we can all regret that outcome.</div><div style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px;">So this is Biden's SCOTUS swan song, and a major shift for him, if not a full mea culpa.</div><div style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px;">Chief Justice Roberts' Rules of Ethical Order are, at best, a spongy set of suggestions rather than enforceable standards of <span class="ydpc87657dchtml-span ydpc87657dcxdj266r ydpc87657dcx11i5rnm ydpc87657dcxat24cr ydpc87657dcx1mh8g0r ydpc87657dcxexx8yu ydpc87657dcx4uap5 ydpc87657dcx18d9i69 ydpc87657dcxkhd6sd ydpc87657dcx1hl2dhg ydpc87657dcx16tdsg8 ydpc87657dcx1vvkbs" style="margin: 0px; text-align: inherit; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit;"></span>conduct.</div><div style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px;">And Justices Thomas et al. are the Kings of Capitol Hill until Biden's poposed new Constitutional Amendment can curb their enthusiasm for legislating from the bench.</div><div style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px;">Meanwhile, Justice Thomas will stay on the job until he can no longer exercise his tyrannical power, or resign in favor of a much younger MAGA successor that President Trump will nominate, should he return to the Oval Office, thereby confirming the unhinged autocracy of the Court for another quarter century.</div><div style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px;">That threat alone is reason enough to deny Mr. Trump another term.</div></div><div style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Even if you are a traditional Republican who feels stuck with two unpalatable choices!</div><div style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Marshall Jones</div></div></div></body></html>