Historic Jackson Justice

When America was a child, we spoke as a child, but when we became a grown-up, we put away childish ways. For then, back in the day, we were seeing, in a mirror, darkly, our ancestors' reflections in the manner of kings, serving as subjects to a crown, vassals in search of a vessel wherein we could navigate our way to a new world, a world in which all men and women, at last, at long last we live and move and have our freedom as men of women with dignity, equal rights and equal privileges in the eyes of God, man, in the statutes of God's law and man's law. When I was a child, I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1950's. Jackson was also the home of Medgar Evers, who had joined our army during the great war. . . Medgar, who had faced nazi battalions in Europe, only to return to Jackson and be told to go to the back of the bus, and ultimately to be assassinated in his own front yard because he was instructing his community in voter registration in Mississippi and Alabama. When I was a child in Jackson, a southern city that had been named after Andrew Jackson, whose backwoods legacy reminds us of both prejudice and victory over prejudice because he was an advocate for working Americans, as compared to rich and privileged ones, but he was also a racist, especially toward Native Americans. And let us not forget US Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, 1941–54, who also served as prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials after hitler's third reich was brought to its final end and brought to the bar of Justice and the judgements of human history. And let us remember, progressing forward into history. . . Ketanji Brown Jackson's recent challenge in our US Supreme Court, a few weeks ago.

Justice Jackson asked: "Counsel, under your theory of absolute immunity, would a president be immune from prosecution if he ordered the military to assassinate a political opponent?" Justice Ketanji Brown JacksonLet us hope that Justice Jackson's question will be answered with a gavel toward freedom and justice by the Court's impending decision on presidential immunity. Let us hope that the justice-demanding opposition represented by Davy Crockett, er, excuse me, Jasmine Crockett will prevail in the high Court's impending decision. Let us hope that Justice Jackson's profound question will be answered by the supreme court with a decisive NO! No to presidential immunity in his role as Commander in Chief, Chief Executive and occupant of the oval office. As a wise person has said somewhere: Let immunity end a the Oval door. May Justice Jackson's question be the key that locks the door behind trump's attempt to transform our Presidency into a Kingship.  King of Soul