Letter to Supreme Court
Justices of the Supreme Court September 6, 2020
Supreme Court of the United States
1 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20543
Dear Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. and Associate Justices Clarence Thomas, Ruth B. Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Sonya Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh:
I am writing to all of you with a great sense of urgency due to my perceptions of the deep political and cultural divisions and sense of chaos currently existing in our nation. I feel that our representative government, our democracy, is in great peril. I also write with personal knowledge of other periods of urgency during my eighty-eight years, but with the sense that they do not begin to approach the fear, divisions, and chaos we experience today.
The divisions between different groups of people in our nation -- urban and rural, men and women, rich and poor, black and white, older and more recent immigrants, religious and secular, conservative and liberal -- it seems to go on and on. Such divisions have long existed, but not to this extreme. Moreover, they appear to be fostered by the current leadership of our Administrative, Congressional, and Judicial branches of government. This cannot continue if we wish to preserve a government of, by, and for the people. I, for one, do not want to live in a dictatorship. And I want my children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren to live in a country that cares for the welfare of its people.
In consideration of the above, my request, Supreme Court Justices, is that you make decisions of law that are without prejudice. We all have biases of one kind or another, whether we express or even realize them, whether we are judges or not, and frankly, you are most often aligned conservatively in your opinions. I fear, with the current atmosphere of fear, hatred, and hostility, accompanied by an assault on reality and truth, we are in danger of having our election in November end up in a constitutional crisis. If President Trump loses the election, he may contest his loss, and the Supreme Court may have to decide whether he loses or wins. And if he wins the election, he may continue to try to make himself impervious to our laws. In either case I implore you to base your decisions fairly, without prejudice, on the wishes of our founding fathers and our Constitution, thereby ensuring the continuation of our representative government, our civil rights and equality under the law, our freedom from repression, and the welfare of all of our people.
Sincerely,
Anne Carbery Fox
9101 Kensington Parkway
Chevy Chase, MD 2815
301-718-9766
Supreme Court of the United States
1 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20543
Dear Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. and Associate Justices Clarence Thomas, Ruth B. Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Sonya Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh:
I am writing to all of you with a great sense of urgency due to my perceptions of the deep political and cultural divisions and sense of chaos currently existing in our nation. I feel that our representative government, our democracy, is in great peril. I also write with personal knowledge of other periods of urgency during my eighty-eight years, but with the sense that they do not begin to approach the fear, divisions, and chaos we experience today.
The divisions between different groups of people in our nation -- urban and rural, men and women, rich and poor, black and white, older and more recent immigrants, religious and secular, conservative and liberal -- it seems to go on and on. Such divisions have long existed, but not to this extreme. Moreover, they appear to be fostered by the current leadership of our Administrative, Congressional, and Judicial branches of government. This cannot continue if we wish to preserve a government of, by, and for the people. I, for one, do not want to live in a dictatorship. And I want my children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren to live in a country that cares for the welfare of its people.
In consideration of the above, my request, Supreme Court Justices, is that you make decisions of law that are without prejudice. We all have biases of one kind or another, whether we express or even realize them, whether we are judges or not, and frankly, you are most often aligned conservatively in your opinions. I fear, with the current atmosphere of fear, hatred, and hostility, accompanied by an assault on reality and truth, we are in danger of having our election in November end up in a constitutional crisis. If President Trump loses the election, he may contest his loss, and the Supreme Court may have to decide whether he loses or wins. And if he wins the election, he may continue to try to make himself impervious to our laws. In either case I implore you to base your decisions fairly, without prejudice, on the wishes of our founding fathers and our Constitution, thereby ensuring the continuation of our representative government, our civil rights and equality under the law, our freedom from repression, and the welfare of all of our people.
Sincerely,
Anne Carbery Fox
9101 Kensington Parkway
Chevy Chase, MD 2815
301-718-9766
ADDRESSWalnut Creek, CA
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