Honorable Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: What have you done?

What have you done? When the critical moment came, when the foundation of our free Republic was under attack, you flinched. Free and uncorrupted elections are the essence of a free Republic. But you feared the out-of-control mobs rioting and burning and killing in our streets, and you did nothing. You, and you alone, held the power and the duty to investigate the dispute between the states brought before you. You could have done it so thoroughly and transparently that the evidence would speak for itself, either to be debunked or upheld according to your impartial findings. You control the space where all sides can be peacefully heard in Constitutional disputes. Yet you took a pass, on the flimsiest of excuses.

Make no mistake, you haven’t dodged the bullet. You have just put all of us, the citizens of this United States, in front of it. The “left,” as they are often called, believe the election was tainted when Donald Trump was elected, though they offered little evidence and did not seek a Supreme Court hearing. The “conservatives,” as they are often called, believe the election of Joe Biden was fraudulent, and they have produced a mountain of evidence (though much of it suppressed by the censoring online and social media giants) that, with the lack of an honest and transparent hearing by an impartial forum, stand as truth in the minds of much of the American citizenry.

This near-universal lack of confidence in free and honest elections is the greatest danger we have ever faced, for no government can long exist in peace when the people are not protected in the rights and confirmed in the duties established by the U.S. Constitution. Already we are entering an era of vengeance: Censorship of free speech; loss of employment and business shutdowns based on political or religious views; threats to the lives and safety of families of those who dare to exercise their right to speak out.

Will you still persist in putting your collective heads in the sand, or will you muster the courage to do your duty with honor and allegiance to the Constitution you are sworn to defend? If only it’s not too little, too late.

Lucille Lusk, Winston