The qualifications to be a Supreme Court justice are brief: president nominates, the Senate confirms. There is no requirement that the nominee be an attorney. There is no requirement that the nominee be a citizen. With our current activist court imagining what the Founding Fathers intended, one is left wondering what they will deem acceptable.
Our court has determined that corporations are persons, so it is acceptable for Exxon Corporation to be a justice. There is a story of Roman Emperor Caligula appointing his horse Incatatus to the Senate. Could a horse be a justice? There is no requirement that a justice be human. Nor is there a requirement the justice be alive, making it possible for Anthony Scalia to return to the court with our new “Founders’ Intent” interpretation, or a Jefferson Davis statue.
What we do know of our Founders is that they accepted only white Protestant men as acceptable leaders. That leaves only Justice Neil Gorsuch from today’s court as qualified. While the shameless majority will not voluntarily resign, they have provided our president with the authority to remove the eight unqualified justices by any “official” means necessary. Perhaps it is time to reap the whirlwind.
