Newsweek Reports: Judge Quits Job with Rebuke of Supreme Court’s ‘Low Regard’ for Principles

Newsweek’s article on the low level of ethics within the U.S. Supreme Court begins:

In his upcoming memoir, retired Judge David S. Tatel wrote that he stepped down from his position on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit due to the U.S. Supreme Court‘s “low regard” for judicial principles, according to a Friday report by The Washington Post.

Though it seems that our country’s abandoning its integrity happened entirely in the last 10 years, that can’t possibly be the case.  Clarence Thomas is the oldest and longest standing justice. Do you think he went bad just a few months ago?

Scandals in corporate America, e.g., Wells Fargo’s choice to defraud millions of its clients, Enron, Bernie Madoff, and the dozens of banksters associated with the sub-prime loan collapse, go back many decades.  In fact, the Wikipedia page on the subject lists the collapse of the Medici Bank in the 15th Century as an early example of malfeasance.

All that said, there is no doubt that the Trump phenomenon has brought about an avalanche of dishonesty, just in the last few years, given that the president himself is a convicted felon, and feels precisely zero remorse for his criminal actions.