5 - Blind Justice?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 December 2022
Summary
To the left of the steps leading up to the US Supreme Court is a massive marble statue of a woman seated and holding a small figurine of a lady who is blindfolded and embracing a set of scales in her arms. The scales represent the Court’s duty to weigh each side of an argument and the blindfold signifies the Court’s responsibility to do so fairly – reminders to all who enter the Court that America’s system of justice is supposed to be impartial and free from bias, political or otherwise. Not so in Trump’s view. He wanted it to serve his personal and political interests and he tried hard to make that happen.
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- Institutions under SiegeDonald Trump's Attack on the Deep State, pp. 104 - 132Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022