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To the editor:
The general premise of a proclamation submitted by Mr. Van Hoy last week stated we should all defend the “Rule of Law, administered by a fair, impartial, and independent judiciary”, everyone can agree with.
But the suggestion that we currently have a judiciary that is fair and impartial is false. A Gallop poll, released December 2024, stated “Americans’ confidence in their nation’s judicial system and courts” has fell from a high of 59% in 2020 to a record low of 34% in 2024.
The proclamation also made the accusation that “threats to the Rule of Law” are recent.
The threats are not recent. This is not a new phenomenon; it is the same threat between the legislative, executive and judicial branches of our government that’s been happening throughout our nation’s history.
The vague eloquent rambling proclamation could have been applicable to any President, any Congress or any Judiciary past, present or in the future. It could have also been submitted when a Supreme Court Justice’s life was threatened; or, when a Justice’s draft opinion was leaked prior to the release of a decision; or, when a President refuses to follow the “Rule of Law” that allowed an invasion of undocumented foreign nationals to enter our country.
The same motivations that generated the release of this proclamation are the same reasons confidence in our judicial systems plummeted from 59% in 2020 to 34% in 2024, the infection of partisan politics poisoning the judicial system.
Kurt Musselman
Mocksville