Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Social Justice is rarely justice.

Today, upon visiting the Supreme Court I took note of the phrase
above the entrance, "Equal Justice under law".  These four words
have been found wanting in a world turned upside down to appease
those who refuse accept lawful decisions.

The public is often reminded what 'justice' means in America
to those discontented with results rendered in our legal system.
Opposition to American justice raises their anger when verdicts
are not satisfactory, but not against the process, rather the result.

Misappropriation of language is used to undermine the greatest
legal system in the world today to seek outcomes that are often
unfair, and a far cry from actual 'justice'.

Even learned jurists "reach", maybe unwittingly, beyond boundaries
of legal arguments to 'find a way' to render 'justice' that is really
not justice at all.

We need to be reminded of the four words etched at the entrance
and approved by the judges of the Court in 1932.

This is the societal ideal that has influenced the American legal
system and should never be replaced by anything less the "justice"

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