The

rulings

of the Supreme Court for this term have captured my interests a bit. Firstly, I very much favor the way that they handled the separation of church and state issues that came before them. While I do not believe that public officials or other interested bodies should be able to make religious displays or statements on public property, those religious symbols that are placed as monuments due to their historical significance or that are placed within a larger contextual framework are perfectly ok. Their decision conscerning the right of

Eminent Domain

are quite troubling. This leaves minority communities at terrible peril, if city and local officials decide that certain areas need to be broken apart do to the advancement of a city. One should never forget the case of Overtown in Miami and how they dispaced all of those Black people in order to build a highway so White people could get to their homes in the suburbs from the city. The supreme court could have done more to protect minorities. Also, what is with this woman not getting any justice from the courts after her husband murdered her three children? Oh my God. What is the court doing? I don't believe in protecting police precincts anyway. They can be among the most corrupt. Eliminate COINTELPRO, racist white men, and phallocentrim, and then maybe.