written in response to the Amy Coney Barrett confirmation hearings
and for Margaret Atwood's Handmaids
protesters cloaked
in red robes and white bonnets ...
Supreme Court silhouette
FYI: The Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court Hearings Are an Enlightening Sham, John Cassidy, New Yorker, October 14
Added: One Hundred Twenty-Third Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary
for my heroine, former Chicago teacher and activist Beatrice Lumpkin who voted for her first presidential candidate,Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1940 and hasn't missed a vote since.
the President claims
I'm immune from Covid-19 ...
102-year-old
woman in full PPE
casting a mail-in ballot
FYI: Watch CTV's interview with Beatrice Lumpkin who explains why this year’s U.S. presidential election is the “the most important” vote of her lifetime.
In this era of permanent political warfare, loyalty to party and President long ago trumped the “advice and consent” clause in Article II of the Constitution, which granted the U.S. Senate the exclusive right to approve or reject treaties and judicial nominations.
ReplyDelete-- John Cassidy, "New Yorker," October 14