The Corpse and His Court - Rehnquist: the Chief Injustice

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http://www.counterpunch.com/labotz09082005.html


William Rehnquist, lay in state in the Great Hall of the Supreme Court. Dead at last, dead at last.

Let us remember him. He stood tall-and faced backward. He turned back the hands of the clock. He helped push back the tides of time. Though he wore a robe and sat on a high bench in a great room with tall ceilings and dark wood in a building made of white stone, let us remember, he was not afraid to strike down at the weak.

If we have much injustice in this country, let us remember, he was in his time the chief injustice.

William Rehnquist. Let's remember him. He never flinched. He never hesitated to use power against the powerless, or might against the underdog. He struck a blow against African Americans, opposing the expansion of desegregation. He took a swing at women; dissenting in Roe v. Wade, arguing to deny women the right to chose. He hit out against the poor, the uneducated, and people of color, by supporting the death penalty.

He was not a man for all times, he was not even a man for our time-he was a blast from the past. He argued for states' rights against the Federal government. He argued against the separation of church and state, and for public tax money for religious schools and religious prayers in the public schools. He loved our country, loved it not as it was, but as it might have been--had it never had the Civil Rights movement or perhaps the Civil War.
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I call him a traitor