Robert Cooperman- A Poem

The Supreme Court After the 2024 Election

After yet another Democrat was elected

to the White House, the Senate has again

refused to hold hearings to ratify a new Justice.

And since one more Democratic-appointed

Justice has succumbed to illness and old age,

the Republican dominated Senate has declared,

“We’ve kept our majority, so we’re perfectly

happy with the make-up of the Court; no need

for new justices: deranged socialists every last one.”

The President Elect’s protests have had the same

effect as shouting into a hurricane, so have demands

from Democrats in the Senate and the House.

And calls from various left-leaning news outlets,

to allow the process to go forward have been used,

metaphorically, as so much toilet paper.

“Let the people decide,” the Majority Leader

of the Senate proclaimed, in a bit of logic

so fuzzy it vanished like dandelion tufts.

“Besides,” he went on, “we can wait another

four years, or however long it takes, to restore us  

to our lawful position of absolute power.”

Chief, and sole Justice, Clarence Thomas

once again acknowledged that he will refuse

to ask opposing attorneys any questions.