To the scolding "Justices"

A lower-court judge apologized to the (self-described) conservative "Justices" Gorsuch and Kavanaugh after they "suggested that Judge Young subverted the court’s will by failing to apply an earlier emergency order".

Judge Young said on Tuesday that he had not realized he was expected to rely on a slim three-page order issued with minimal legal reasoning in April to his case dealing with a different agency.

If you'd been in Judge William G. Young's robes, you might have "erred" in the same way he did. Why? Because those rebuking "Justices" and their colleagues in the majority didn't explain themselves.

Since the beginning of President Trump’s second term, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority has sided with [the] White House in nearly every case it has considered.

But it has done so relatively opaquely through more than a dozen emergency orders — unsigned opinions issued relatively quickly and without oral argument.

Unsigned orders without explanations are no damned help to lower courts when it comes time to puzzle through the Supremes' supposed intentions. Does what the Court's majority hastily "decided" about apples apply to oranges? How the hell should anybody outside the chambers know?

Neil, Brett — we need to speak plainly: may I call you by your first names? — fuck your high dudgeon.

You and your radical brethren (and your occasional sister-in-arms, Amy Coney Barrett) may be in a position to demand the obedience of your fellow robe-wearers, but you have forfeited any right to the respect of the millions of Americans who see through your pretense.

You posture as solons of the Constitution, but you have twisted its plain meaning, and that of many laws, to let an autocrat in the making steamroll over the legal safeguards the people established to prevent autocracy. You are nothing more, nor less, than dictator-enablers. You are fundamentally anti-democratic in your mindset, and as such, you have betrayed your oath to the Constitution you pretend to uphold.

What derailed you and your likeminded colleagues from what I assume was an initial commitment to justice, I don't know. What I do know is, you are on a course that millions of your fellow Americans will neither forgive nor forget.

If you have a shred of decency left, you will step out of your (echo) chambers and look at how the rest of the country sees you and your works.

If you have a heart, you will feel shame. That's okay; in fact, that's absolutely necessary. Only if you truly recognize the magnitude of your mistakes (and their consequences for others) will you find the resolve to fight until you've corrected them.