You know we're not living in normal times when judges keep making nifty source citations in their anti-Trump opinions.
The latest is US District Judge Cynthia Rufe, a George W. Bush appointee, who has just ordered the National Park Service to put back the language about enslaved people that it had deleted from a display at the President's House in Philadelphia.
"As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984 now existed, with its motto 'Ignorance is Strength,' this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims — to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts. It does not," she said.
Rufe's decision comes on top of District Judge Richard Leon, who cited Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" in his scathing smackdown of Pete Hegseth's campaign against Senator Mark Kelly. "This Court has all it needs to conclude that defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly’s First Amendment freedoms and threatened the Constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees," he wrote. "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
And let's not forget Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who last summer accused her SCOTUS colleagues of "Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. This Administration always wins."
Good work! Anything judges can do to draw attention to their rulings against the anti-Constitutional Trumpsters is great. We cats PURR.
(IMAGES: Calvin & Hobbes, by Bill Watterson)
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