{"id":17254,"date":"2024-10-08T17:18:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T21:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=17254"},"modified":"2024-10-08T17:18:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T21:18:57","slug":"john-roberts-supreme-court-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2024\/10\/08\/john-roberts-supreme-court-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Supreme Problem (3-Verse Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My latest 3-verse limerick was inspired by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/08\/politics\/john-roberts-donald-trump-biskupic\/index.html\">CNN article<\/a> that included this paragraph: &#8220;Roberts was shaken by the adverse public reaction to his decision\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/01\/politics\/takeaways-trump-immunity-scotus\/index.html\">affording Trump substantial immunity<\/a>\u00a0from criminal prosecution. His protestations that the case concerned the presidency, not Trump, held little currency.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Poor John Roberts is in a deep funk;<br \/>His beloved court&#8217;s stature has shrunk.<br \/>And it&#8217;s largely his fault<br \/>For harsh rulings that halt<br \/>Basic rights. He&#8217;s a punk and a skunk.<\/p><p>About justice his court doesn&#8217;t care.<br \/>There&#8217;s no effort to ever be fair.<br \/>It treats stare decisis<br \/>Like trash. We&#8217;ve a crisis;<br \/>Sound rulings are brutally rare!<\/p><p>So if Roberts is sad, fine by me!<br \/>For the court must be changed. You agree?<br \/>Then be sure to vote Dem.<br \/>No more hawing. Don&#8217;t hem!<br \/>It&#8217;s the one way to stem the debris.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest 3-verse limerick was inspired by a CNN article that included this paragraph: &#8220;Roberts was shaken by the adverse public reaction to his decision\u00a0affording Trump substantial immunity\u00a0from criminal prosecution. His protestations that the case concerned the presidency, not Trump, held little currency.&#8221; Poor John Roberts is in a deep funk;His beloved court&#8217;s stature has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[182,4052,72,25,85,23,852,81,1550,4051,21,4147,2,168,6,9,13,3543],"tags":[2823,1895,2786,192,638,2897,194,2764,3806,3848,4179,2788,1090,3347,702,2100,2757,2681],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17254"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17254"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17258,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17254\/revisions\/17258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}