What do we lose if we abandon the Supreme Court?

There is, um, there's this tradition that the, that the justices have.

I don't know if you're aware of it.

It's called the conference handshake, and th- this tradition is symbolic.

It's representative of, of the type of government that we have.

Before the court meets or b- before the justices deliberate on a, uh, on a particular case, all nine of them shake hands, one with, one with the other.

They reach across the political aisle, as it were.

I know they're supposed to be apolitical, but we know they're not.

They reach across and they shake hands with everybody, symbolizing unity, symbolizing the true purpose that they're there, which is not to be political hacks, but to administer equal justice under law.

They do this with the conference handshake.

This has been going on for decades, and it, it's interesting that this current court has been under some media assault.

"You're just a, a bunch of partisans.

You're just out there doing the work of MAGA." Those are the complaints.

And it was Sotomayor who rose to the occasion and said, "No, no, no, we are not a court that is divided.

We're not a court that's bent on doing the work of MAGA, but rather we're a court administered to apply equal justice under law." It's actually true that the Court, while we talk around here a lot about the cases that are decided five to four, six to three, the Court has several full majority nine-zero cases, eight-one cases.

There are, um, a plethora of those cases.

And the, the justices, for the most part, understand their role.

Now, there are a few justices who we, we question to what extent that they understand their role, but I, I don't wanna get into the, into the weeds here of the individual justices.

The, the history class and the celebration today is really for the Court itself, designed to, to honor the Court, because our, our United States Supreme Court is truly one of, if not the only court in the world that is engaged to uphold and protect a document.

That document, of course, as you know, is the Constitution, and that's their charge.

The nine robed in black, their charge is to protect the Constitution at all costs, protect its, its purpose.

And what is the purpose of the Constitution? Well, Abraham Lincoln told us the purpose of the Constitution was to protect the principles in the Declaration, namely that, that liberty is available to all.

Those are Lincoln's words.

The word fitly spoken, the apples of gold in, in a frame of silver.

Abraham Lincoln quoting Proverbs 25 and 11, and he, he equated it to the, the Declaration and the Constitution, where the Declaration is the, the beautiful painting of the apples of gold.

The Declaration is beautiful.

There is, um, there's this tradition that the, that the justices have.

I don't know if you're aware of it.

It's called the conference handshake, and th- this tradition is symbolic.

It's representative of, of the type of government that we have.

Before the court meets or b- before the justices deliberate on a, uh, on a particular case, all nine of them shake hands, one with, one with the other.

They reach across the political aisle, as it were.

I know they're supposed to be apolitical, but we know they're not.

They reach across and they shake hands with everybody, symbolizing unity, symbolizing the true purpose that they're there, which is not to be political hacks, but to administer equal justice under law.

They do this with the conference handshake.

This has been going on for decades, and it, it's interesting that this current court has been under some media assault.

"You're just a, a bunch of partisans.

You're just out there doing the work of MAGA." Those are the complaints.

And it was Sotomayor who rose to the occasion and said, "No, no, no, we are not a court that is divided.

We're not a court that's bent on doing the work of MAGA, but rather we're a court administered to apply equal justice under law." It's actually true that the Court, while we talk around here a lot about the cases that are decided five to four, six to three, the Court has several full majority nine-zero cases, eight-one cases.

There are, um, a plethora of those cases.

And the, the justices, for the most part, understand their role.

Now, there are a few justices who we, we question to what extent that they understand their role, but I, I don't wanna get into the, into the weeds here of the individual justices.

The, the history class and the celebration today is really for the Court itself, designed to, to honor the Court, because our, our United States Supreme Court is truly one of, if not the only court in the world that is engaged to uphold and protect a document.

That document, of course, as you know, is the Constitution, and that's their charge.

The nine robed in black, their charge is to protect the Constitution at all costs, protect its, its purpose.

And what is the purpose of the Constitution? Well, Abraham Lincoln told us the purpose of the Constitution was to protect the principles in the Declaration, namely that, that liberty is available to all.

Those are Lincoln's words.

The word fitly spoken, the apples of gold in, in a frame of silver.

Abraham Lincoln quoting Proverbs 25 and 11, and he, he equated it to the, the Declaration and the Constitution, where the Declaration is the, the beautiful painting of the apples of gold.

The Declaration is beautiful.