I’ve been telling stories to my grandkids since they were born. They’re always the main characters in the stories.
In one story, they captured a ghost, which they were exploiting for money (e.g., by putting it on television shows). They kept the ghost in a Ziplock bag.
The group PETS (People for the Ethical Treatment of Spirits) responded to this by obtaining a court order to ‘release the ghost from the bag.’
Hoping to teach them something about the difference between the letter and the spirit of the law, I had planned to surprise them by saying that they let the ghost out of the bag… inside a larger bag.
But the older one beat me to it. She literally said: ‘I know — we open it inside a bigger bag!’
She was four years old at the time.
I was reminded of this recently because — as many of you know — Texas has been putting razor wire in the Rio Grande to stop the influx of illegal immigrants across its border.
And SCOTUS has said that the US Border Patrol can cut the wire.
But what SCOTUS didn’t say was that Texas can’t keep replacing the wire that gets cut!
So, as far as I know, that’s the plan: let the Border Patrol cut the wire (so the state is not ‘defying the Supreme Court’, as many have claimed), then replace it with new wire. Repeat as necessary.
So this is the state of things in our country: We have seventy-year-old judges ‘interpreting’ the law by issuing orders that even four-year-old children could see how to get around.
I can hardly wait to see what happens next.