Republicans Rush to Protect Supremes - and Leave Our Kids to Fend for Themselves!

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

This week a California man was arrested and charged with attempted murder after he was discovered armed with a knife and gun outisde of the Washington, DC, home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.  That incident pumped new energy into an effort in Congress to provide special security to the families of the Supreme Court Justices.

Last month, in the wake of citizen protests over the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion which indicated that the Court was about to overturn Roe v Wade, the Senate unanimously passed a bill that would give a special security detail to the family members of each Justice, but that bill has been stalled in the House where House leadership wants to expand it to cover the families of staffers who work at the Court as well.  After the incident outisde of Kavanaugh's home earlier this week, Senate Minority Leader McConnell summoned the press and began making demands that the House take up the stalled bill at once.

The never-charming and always partisan McConnell bellowed to reporters:

"House Democrats need to pass this bill and they need to do it today.  No more fiddling around with this.  They need to pass it today.  They need to stop their multi-week blockade against this Supreme Court security bill and pass it before the sun sets today."

So now we know that the Republican Party will go to the wall to protect two things:  Fetuses, and the five rabidly right-wing justices whom they have worked so hard to place in control of the Supreme Court of the United States.

And we also know the one thing that the Republican Party does not give a damn about protecting:  America's public school children.

The comparison could not be more stark:  on the one hand the Republican Party is almost in panic mode as it tries to set up armed defensive perimeters around the homes and lives of members of the Supreme Court, and, on the other hand, that same group of Republican elected officials is doing everything in its power to insure that the government does absolutely nothing to prevent emotionally disturbed eighteen-year-olds from purchasing semi-automatic rifles and high-capacity magazines and then using those weapons of war to turn school children into piles of unrecognizable bloody meat.

Does that sound backward to anyone but me?   Shouldn't we be looking at protecting the most vulnerable among us - our children - first, and then worrying about wealthy and privileged adults at some point later on down the road.

Don't our children deserve some political leaders raging indignant on their behalf - demanding an end to "fiddling around" on gun reform and insisting on sensible gun laws "before the sun sets today"?  Is that too much to ask?

The Supremes can wait.

Our kids need to come first!