There is reason to be concerned as we observe our neighbors to the south, on a very slippery slope threatening democracy. As a private citizen not active on social media, I have not found a way to influence the public conversation in the United States other than to submit my thoughts in a letter to my newspaper. My recent proposal (“A Little Irony”) was not accepted. I do not care if it was, but I hope that a columnist will take note of it and analyze this blind spot in American society. Letters from readers seem to me to be a way to sow the seed of the idea. I will blame myself (and I will blame you without knowing you) if my attempts remain a dead letter, if Donald Trump is reelected and undermines democracy, while the Supreme Court of the United States has invested even the current president with means to stem the threat.
While acknowledging the imminent threats to democracy, the public conversation in the United States has yet to address the broad protections that six Supreme Court justices have granted to any president of the country, including the current one, whose duty it is to preserve the Constitution and democracy. While a president cannot fire Supreme Court justices, the latter have just granted him immunity for any action, even mafia-related, taken in the official exercise of his duties. In order to allow their replacement and thus prompt the Supreme Court to overturn this recent judgment (and the one overturning Roe v. Wade). This should even protect the official and public order of the president to put in place effective pressure to get certain judges to “spontaneously” resign. But if, for religious reasons for example, President Biden could not bring himself to use such extreme means himself, even to save democracy, he would save face by resigning in favor of his vice president, publicly announcing that she is ready to take all the necessary steps to restore order and sanity to the Supreme Court and to the country.
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