Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 19, 2022

(sigh). I wish this didn’t ring so true.

Got it,but still, eweh

Where’s their fax machine where the Republican party whip sends them their opinion?

Yup, that’s pretty much the state of the Supreme Court. Frightening the amount of harm to the people of the USA they seem poised to cause.

It does make for efficiency when we know how they’re going to rule on cases that aren’t even before the Supreme Court yet. Or, for that matter, cases that haven’t even been tried in the lower courts.

Your supreme court isn’t ruled by politics, it’s ruled by religion which rules politics.

Surprisingly little hyperbole

Which one of the three at the dissenting desk is Flo

I think maybe the Supreme Court theme song should be a variation of an old Tina Turner song. You know, “What’s law got to do with it, got to do with it?”

Cons can define “woman.” A person who is not allowed to control her own body if pregnant.

Still far better than any other judicial system that has ever existed. We will have to wait until the Biblical judgement day for perfect.

I am pretty sure that something is very wrong with the Supreme Court and that we are not bound to just let them drag us down. The system is ludicrous. It is insane that the president nominates and the senate approves. Especially with the absolutely bizarre and sinister situation we have with the McConnell situation.

Expand the Court. Add three militantly liberal women of color. It’ll never happen but I can dream. Hell, if one of the three is from Puerto Rico who doesn’t speak English, that would be even better.

Constructive suggestion: Make nonpartisan Justices more powerful so that EVERY president will nominate nonpartisans. Nonpartisan defined as confirmed by a majority of the Senators from both parties. Which used to be the norm.

The simplest idea I have would be to let a nonpartisan Justice compel two recusals of (junior) partisan Justices. One vote plus two recusals equals the voting strength of three Justices. (The “junior” constraint" would grandfather the existing partisans. (Questions welcome, explanations of problems with the idea less welcome, but I would most welcome your better idea.))

By the way, the history is interesting. Not long ago the Supreme Court was overwhelmingly nonpartisan. There were some partisan nominations, but any controversy was enough to sink their nominations. They didn’t just ram them through like these days.

I hope the link to the data on Wikipedia is allowed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nominations_to_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States

Now this is the non-political COMIC STRIP we all have come to know. None of that fake tobacco crap.

Grim prognostication today. Reason vs religious zeal and political bias. Never a good outcome.

NOBODY expects the Insurrection Inquisition!

Conservatives didn’t like the “Liberal” court but they sure didn’t act immature like so many are doing today. Yeah, they marched every year but they weren’t doxxing the Justices home information so they could be marched on every night. There have been plenty of cases I didn’t care for but I can still act like an adult.

And South Carolina is getting ready to pass a bill giving hospitals the right to refuse non-emergency care to any who don’t subscribe to the “faith” of the organization that owns/runs the hospital. WAKE UP, PEOPLE!!!! This is beyond frightening. . .

Always the view of those who don’t get what they want.

Oh, this is about the Supreme Court? I thought it was about impeachment hearings.

So Wiley is FINALLY showing the truth about the Jan 6th SHOW TRIALS! :-)

Always the view of those who don’t get what they want unless they can lie, cheat, and stack the deck.

The solution: 1. Try and convict ‘Ginnie’ Thomas for sedition. 2. Tell Clarence she’ll be pardoned, if, and only if, he retires. 3. Impeach him, if he doesn’t, for conflict of interest regarding his rulings, where she was a paid lobbyist, and he didn’t recuse himself. 4. Impeach Coney Barrett, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch for perjury, after lying under oath, in their confirmation hearings that they considered Roe v. Wade settled law. 5. Pack the court so the number of justices, again, equals the number of circuits, i.e. 13.6. Select 8 young liberal judges, who, like Coney Barrett, have a minimal paper trail to minimize arguments for their non-approval. 7. It will then still take a generation to right all the wrongs of this court.8. Oh, if politics were only so simple and easy!!!

I don’t think we’ve seen many 6-3 opinions split on idealogical lines. Perhaps the fear exceeds the reality, and the proposed palliative would be much, much worse.

Looking at the high court, we’ve decided that the majority conservative justices will overturn Roe. But, that overlooks how they’ve decided cases so far. Conservatives have made what looked like liberal decisions and likewise liberal justices have made what looked like conservative decisions. We just don’t know how the justices will decide on Roe, or any case, till they do.

The Christian Taliban

Well, I would like to say Wiley has entered the world of the delusional.

But instead he has adopted the mantle of full-on propagandist apparatchik.

Are there no dissenting votes on the Court? No minority opinions? Is there a constitution on which to base the decisions. Is there case law? Is there any rule of law?

Now, I know that statist agitprops like Wiley prefer a system like the one he describes. But it is only when the statist tyrants are in charge with no limits placed on them by the Constitution.

So, Wiley is all of what I described and an abject liar to boot.

(admires art of this cartoon)

which one is Liz Cheney?

Great image of supreme court, my only quibble is that Breyer is still on the dissenting opinion desk, Jackson won’t take that seat till the new term.

We think we have a sample of 1, albeit a BIG 1, we need to wait and see. In the likely event that the decision goes the way we expect, it’s time to look in the mirror. For forty years the conservatives in Congress as well as at the various state levels have been packing the courts while the liberals were looking at the ground playing the short game. The reason we think we are going to be angry is because we know we won’t like their decision.

If the Court was making a gun control decision to ban weapon of war in the general public domain, we’d be happy. So the problem is not the court, the problem is we played the short game while the others played the long game. We are getting what we deserve for this foolish strategy. Time to pay attention and not rubber stamp all these uber conservatives. Time to appoint center right or center left judges and avoid the extremes. Hold your elected officials accountable please.

People haven’t changed much in the last 1500 years.

I have to laugh at people who come here to call Wiley a troll because 1) drawing and posting these comics on this website is Wiley’s job and 2) these folks give the impression that their arms are being twisted to visit the Non Sequitur page. They’re so precious.

Lying cheating Republiguns destroyed America’s confidence in the Supreme Court.

No doubt the next Republican inJustice will be from Louisiana. A 16 year old girl was impregnated by a man about twice her age (statutory rape). Later she claimed that was simply rape. Now he wants custody of the daughter, and child support from the mother.

A Louisiana judge gave him both.

So true. I saw this coming when Trump weaseled his way into the White House.

After reading the comment (107 now), wow! Not the world I see, but wow!

Can equally apply to Congressional hearings…

I used to have respect for the Supreme Court. It looks like I will die before I could ever respect it again.

On a side note, HAPPY FATHER’S DAY

Frightening true. Personal freedoms disappearing.

Never seen so much hate in one place, but then that’s what democrats do best.

Wiley’s depiction of the high court as a group of medieval knights Templar is a bit much.

Sounds like the January 6 hearings.

Whine if you like but also vote, write your congressperson and don’t depend on “disposable” Internet polls to protect your freedoms.

What judicial fiat giveth, judicial fiat can taketh away.

Good repurposing of Dante Alighieri’s quotation.

Heck, until the bottom half of the last panel I thought Wiley was depicting the January 6 hearings, or yet another of the ongoing, never-ending, impeachment series. Then I remembered his rote take is definitely from the left field.

Not trolling… Just seems like Wiley needs to move over the the political comics section. The above is not funny to either side of the aisle. He’s doing this more often than before.

What needs to be done is to put this whole thing to a vote of the people. Granted, which ever way it went, the other side would say it was rigged.

Thanks to you for making clear the direction this is leading us…“Since we have already decided,” the ‘shadow docket’ has a better name, as we see the images of evil in the shadows, based on ‘The Six-Supremes’ continuing to use their doctrine, which we have never followed till now, to tell Americans they have less freedoms. Yea can’t Row your Boat in that Moat, and I dread the day they bring up the rest of their ‘Freedom-reducing agenda!’ Wonderful!

Ah yes. The Dark Ages are alive and well.

The current Supreme court is not legitimate. Obama was denied his rightful choice and trump was given one illegally. rupubs are nothing but immoral criminals.

ERA:

“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”

Who is doing sex? It’s about gender.

So, I see some commenters are not in favor of equal rights.

Mr. Miller’s shooting to land in the editorial comics section.

It is republicans that are taking our rights, the court couldn’t do anything without the laws. VOTE OUT ALL REPUBLICANS, FOR OUR FREEDOM, FOR OUR COUNTRY, FOR OUR DEMOCRACY VOTE BLUE. Remember what Judge Luttig said.

The Knights of Malta are making a big comeback.

The more we tell people they can do whatever they want the more they want someone else to tell them what to do.

I wish this were funny, but it’s not. Look at Sunday 6/19/2022 New York Times. Front page reporting on how the Supreme Court is about to rule on the legality and authority of the EPA to regulate efforts to combat climate change. The court is likely to rule that that authority resides in the legislative branch (AKA Congress) and that it’s up to Congress to combat climate change.

Right.

I so wish the Dissenting Justices would wear Red Robes just Once.

Pffft. All that work just to share a ridiculous nightmare? Sad.

Talk about separation of powers. BS. This whole system needs to change. How those judges are elected, and also there absolutely need to be term limits. This whole system stinks. The reps like it right now because it’s in their favor, of course, but independently of who’s profiting from it, it needs to change.

I thought he was talking about the 1/6 committee.

There has been a theme by the Orange Peel cult, that they didn’t protest repeatedly when there was a more balanced court, leaning towards freedom for all.

The reason for that is so obvious, it’s ridiculous that they can’t see the answer themselves. The reason conservatives didn’t need to protest when the court was more fair and just, was no one was taking away their rights. No reason to march, when no one is losing their rights of equality, privacy, medical freedom, and safety to be themselves.

Even so, there were always stupid Nazi (so wrong in America) rallies, KKK gatherings, and the like. They were thankfully dwindling into the past, until the Orange Wannabe Dictator, the least qualified president before becoming elected, and after he became a defeated (for good reason) president. That brought all the hate back to stupid levels. Let’s vote blue, vote out the hate. Make the hate hiding behind Jesus belief system irrelevant again.

They used to have Felix Frankfurter.Now they have 6 dumb dogs.

Funny how it was fine when Liberals were in charge and never listened to reasoned arguments.

Briljant satire…..