The Supreme Court, that august body of Constitution enforcers/interpreters, certainly has screwed us over lately, haven’t they? Many of their recent decisions are so bad that it’s very difficult to even consider them to be interpreting the Constitution anymore, rather than just trying to force everyone to do what they want based upon their own personal politics. I mean, just look at a partial list of their recent gravest hits:
Eminent Domain: Municipalities can steal anyone’s property to tear down and build a strip mall. (Yea! Screw Grandma!)
Citizens United: Money = Speech! (If you don’t have a lot of money, then you can shut up!)
Citizens United: Money = Speech! (If you don’t have a lot of money, then you can shut up!)
Obamacare: It’s not a tax, according to the people who passed it, but it’s a tax when they want to uphold the law against a Constitutional challenge. Basically the Supreme Court said it’s fine for the government to lie to our faces to pass laws we don’t want. (Hey, great!)
Voting Rights Act: Apparently the highest court in the land thinks minorities have been able to vote for long enough. (I hope everyone enjoyed it while it lasted.)
NSA Surveillance: Hey man, what’s privacy anyway? (What are you trying to hide, you sneaky terrorist, with your desire for a reasonable expectation of privacy? We’re onto you!)
Texas Abortion Bill: Rowe v. Wade was so last generation! Now it’s a state’s rights issue to deny a woman the right to make decisions about her own body.
Wow, it sure seems like they’re not even trying to uphold the law anymore. But they’re appointed for life, so we can’t exactly vote them out. So how about a protest against them, but a fun and catchy one, rather than a mean and nasty one? Something like a protest band, like the Supremes Court, based on the great Motown group The Supremes, and their songs could be repurposed to protest the Supreme Court’s awful, rights-denying decisions of late, like so:
The Supremes Court Hits:
“Stop in the Name of the Constitution”:
Stop in the Name of the Constitution,
Before you take our rights, think it o-over…
“Where Did Our Rights Go?”:
Baby, baby, where did our rights go?
Oh, don’t we have them,
Don’t we have them no more?
I’ve got this yearning, burning, yearning to be free inside me,
But your decisions, oh they hurt so bad…
You came into the court, so earnestly,
But your bad decisions, they sting like a bee.
You want me to surrender, so helplessly,
But without rights, you want to leave me.
“You Keep Me Hangin’ On”:
Set me free, why don’t you babe?
Get outa my life, why don’t you babe?
‘Cause you won’t hear my cases,
You just keep me hangin’ on.
You won’t decide the issues,
You just keep me hangin’ on…
“You Can’t Hurry Gov”:
You can’t hurry big gov,
No, you’ll just have to wait,
‘Cause our rights don’t come easy,
They come from God not a potentate.
You can’t hurry big gov,
No, our votes it should make,
Our rights don’t come easy,
Think before you from us take them.
“Baby Gov”:
Baby gov, my baby gov,
We need you, but you mislead us.
All you do is treat us bad,
Take our rights and leave us sad.
Tell me what did we do wrong,
To make you take our rights from us?
‘Cause baby gov, my baby gov,
Been dissin’ ya, your decisions suck.
