Judge Broccoli

Ron Carlisi
1 min readJul 6, 2023

Sits on the highest Court
looks down from above the law
pontificates instead of adjudicates
detachment and devotion to stern justice
of one who makes rules for others to follow
but have no meaning or consequence for him
decrees based on foregone conclusions, ideology
with little regard for the legal record
questions presented, legal precedent
the appearance of impropriety be damned
recreates with litigants before deciding their cases
engages in political attacks on sitting presidents
crosses boundaries of restraint decorum
to address gatherings of right wing ideologues
in the guttural rhetoric of a political pundit
corn-husking opinions from Fox and Rush
feed the howl of the right wing
lynch mob Sig Heiling
issues decrees that are
original and without precedent
self-serving self-fulfilling
twisted crosses that undermine
confidence in judicial impartiality
lead to the need for more guns
now in the courtrooms
to enforce decrees
upon citizens who have lost faith
in equal justice under law

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