are mingling over whiskeys in Roberts’
chambers, quintet majority giggling
about trashing our civil liberties,
the minority judges bent wriggling
in despair. “We goosed that Alaskan kid
daring to display his sign off campus!”
the rookie Alito laughs. “Screwed the lid
on taxpayers exposing the White House
for its marrying church and state!” guffaws
Scalia. “And corporate and union
bosses now can pick presidents!” heehaws
Thomas. “What about the Constitution?”
I butt in. “You know…The First Amendment?”
The chief justice growls, “Damn all precedents!”
Roger Armbrust
June 26, 2007
