Back in the day, women were considered underdressed if they didn’t wear that “foundation.”
Now, I’m not talkin’ about that Mac NC-45 at the local Macy’s counter. I’m talking about that firm foundation that made figures full and faultless.
Growing up in my world women wore structured brassieres (aka bras), girdles, nylon hosiery, garters, petticoats, and a few other garments that escaped my memory.
But if a “proper” woman wore a dress or a skirt, she always wore a slip. Always!
Every now and then, you would hear someone say to another, “Your slip is hanging!”
That could be taken literally or figuratively, but in both cases, it meant that you were out of order or “common,” unrefined, and lacking the social graces.
A random thought about that old adage immediately made me think of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. She basically shot a salvo that warned Donald J. (which stands for anything but Justice) Trump that his slip was showing!
It’s hanging!
The Grio picked up what most of the “mainstream media” overlooked or didn’t find newsworthy.
“In a rare rebuke on Thursday, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson pointedly condemned incessant attacks on federal judges.
While she didn’t explicitly name the attackers, a range of attacks have come from President Donald Trump and Republican allies in recent months and over the past year.
The attacks are not random. They seem designed to intimidate those of us who serve in this critical capacity,” Jackson said at a conference for judges in Puerto Rico, Politico reports. “The threats and harassment are attacks on our democracy, on our system of government. And they ultimately risk undermining our Constitution and the rule of law.”
She continued, “It seems as though every time I read the news or turn on the television these days, I see the affronts.”
Justice Jackson, who was nominated by President Joe Biden in 2022, urged her colleagues in the judicial branch to have “raw courage” to do their jobs without fear of retaliation.
“I urge you to keep going, keep doing what is right for our country, and I do believe that history will vindicate your service,” said Jackson.”
While everyone in the press, political circles, and Congress is spewing this nebulous term, “constitutional crisis,” Jackson has summoned the courage to call it out and make it plain.
If anyone else had willfully and woefully demeaned a judge from the Justice of the Peace to the United States Courts of Appeals, they would have faced contempt charges at the very least. It is preposterous that he uses this tactic to intimidate and disregard the third and most sacred branch of the government with impunity.
Donald Trump’s slip is hanging and Republican aren’t willing to say a word.
In Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, “The Emperor Has No Clothes,” an unnamed emperor is tricked into believing he has new clothes when he is actually naked, and no one dares to speak the truth for fear of seeming foolish.
But in our version of this story, we know the emperor’s name as he flaunts his nakedness before the world and we act as though he is “fully clothed and in his right mind!”
Justice Jackson was right to call out Trump and note that his slip is hanging, but she is a minority in the court, and the majority are more consumed with appeasing the emperor than upholding the laws of this country.
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