The High Court is not so Divisive

In 2023, the US Supreme Court heard 47 cases using the full Court (62 in total, but we are sticking with en banc for the purposes of this discussion).

The rulings had these counts:
9-0 : 15 decisions
8-1 : 1 decision
7-2 : 2 decisions
6-3 : 21 decisions
5-4 : 8 decisions

Of the 6-3 decisions only 11 were along partisan lines (and by reading the text, not along strict ideological lines). Whoever is telling people the Court is broken and everyone on it is a partisan hack is gaslighting the public. The data do not support any such claim. The High Court ruling along partisan lines is in the strong minority. Can we stop with the divisive nonsense?

Family Court

Family Courts are an indication of a decaying society. The entire notion thereof is ludicrous. A family should never bring Government into its home. Ever.

If one parent commits a criminal act against another parent, the police, prosecutors, and criminal courts can handle the matter outside the home. Assault, parental alienation, neglect, abuse, and all manner of criminal matters can be handled without bringing the Government into the home, into the family, and into child-rearing.

Family is the greatest threat to Government. Government is the greatest threat to Family. Strong families, who stick together and can support one another lack a dependency upon the Government that families with weak ties rely upon. Strong families band together into larger communities who rely upon each other further minimizing the need for Government. If a child is situated without his birth-given caretakers, the community - if sufficiently strong and well-connected - can step in to fill that gap.

The fact that we, as a society, have so often turned to Government to manage our familial ties that a category of courts unto itself has arisen in the family’s stead is remarkable. Where are the brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins? Where are the lifelong friends? Where are the fellow parishioners? What kinds of communities are we building if any at all?

This state of affairs harkens back to our first Supreme Court upon which Mr. Justice Iredell sat. He stated in the case of Fries:

"All systems of government suppose they are to be administered by men of common sense and common honesty. In our country, as all ultimately depends on the voice of the people, they have it in their power, and it is to be presumed they generally will choose men of this description; but if they will not, the case, to be sure, is without remedy. If they choose fools, they will have foolish laws. If they choose knaves, they will have knavish ones. But this can never be the case until they are generally fools or knaves themselves, which, thank God, is not likely ever to become the character of the American people."

Has this passage come to falsehood? I understand only a knavish and foolish society could abide Government child-rearing; yet, we have Government child-rearing. We, the Parents, should be raising children. If the Parents are unaccounted for, then the duty falls to We, the Families. If the Families are unaccounted for, then the duty falls to We, the Communities. If the Communities are unaccounted for, then surely we are lost, and the case is without remedy.

If Family Courts are necessary, then our children are living in solitude among the indifferent.