This beautiful letter was written by “Lucinda Law” (@Cindy Lineberry) and published on Facebook. It deserves wider exposure, so I repeat it here in its entirety.

Dear Justice Roberts,

It has come to my attention through your various media appearances that your feelings are hurt — that people view you and your Court as political actors, which you insist is not an accurate understanding of what the Court does.

So let me resolve the confusion: the misunderstanding is yours, not ours.

People believe your Court is political because it is and acts so in plain view of the nation.

You unleash unlimited corporate money into elections by inventing constitutional protections for concentrated wealth. You dismantle voting protections while dining with the very political movement that benefits from their destruction. You expand presidential immunity in ways conveniently favorable to a corrupt executive you have rewarded with extraordinary deference, 90% deference. And then you perform public astonishment when Americans recognize your pattern.

Your Court did not merely “interpret” the Constitution. It selectively hollowed it out whenever democratic participation threatened entrenched power.

Citizens United accelerated America’s transformation into an oligarchy where billionaires and corporations wield more political influence than millions of citizens combined. Shelby County gutted the Voting Rights Act, after which states moved with remarkable speed to burden the very voters the Act was designed to protect. The immunity ruling signaled that sufficient power can place a president beyond meaningful accountability.

Then you publicly mourn the collapse of trust. What exactly did you think would happen?

Legitimacy is not something a court grants itself while issuing ideologically convenient outcomes wrapped in constitutional language — when the public is fortunate enough to even receive a full opinion instead of another consequential ruling buried in the shadow docket.

Legitimacy is earned through restraint, consistency, ethical seriousness, and fidelity to principle even when principle is inconvenient to power.

This is precisely the credibility your Court squandered. We understand perfectly well what we have been watching. We all see you and your court and its role in what our nation has become.

And we are furious — not because we are too ignorant to understand constitutional law, but because we are capable of reading the Constitution you claim to defend- while watching this Court repeatedly twist it to serve its own ideological will.

History will remember this era. And it will remember you and your Court- not as a guardian of constitutional democracy, but as a key institution that eroded it. That is already your legacy, so stop whining- you earned a nation’s scorn.

I wholeheartedly endorse this letter to the chief justice of the most illegitimate, compromised, partisan SCOTUS that has existed in my ¾ century of life. Only three of the justices currently strive to interpret the Constitution as it was written – a document designed to create a world that works for everyone, with no one left out. The other six? Well, not so much.

These six are determined to turn the United States into a Christian Nationalist Autocracy, and have ruled in favor of Trump and MAGA and the Heritage Foundation’s agenda in more cases than I ever thought possible. When this regime falls, as fall it must, they will be remembered with the kind of historical opprobrium reserved for the worst societal outcasts – people like Joseph McCarthy, Boss Tweed, or Andrew Johnson.

“Sir, are you trying to show your contempt for this court?”
“No, your honor, I am doing my best to conceal it”

The Old Wolf has spoken.