pretender

Neil Gorsuch thinks himself Scalia's heir
imagining he'll sway with folksy prose
the colleagues who've been decades longer there
but where he looked for allies, he  makes foes.
The youngest Justice prates and condescends
expounding where he ought to keep it short
he alienates those he'd hoped were friends
pariah even on the Roberts court.
The stolen bench McConnell has bestowed
Obama might have filled to good effect
to salve a nation ready to explode.
But Mitch extends no atom of respect.
Judicial coup, defying precedent
erodes foundations of our government.

sapper

The nomination Mitch McConnell stole
defied two hundred years of precedent.
A third branch under GOP control
makes mock of what our Founding Fathers meant.
Three legs, that undergird a stable stool
be they of polypropylene, or wood
would militate against one-party rule.
But Gingrich tore down much that had seemed good.
Redress could take a generation yet,
depending on mortality, and health.
A court so plainly in one party's debt
can't serve blind Justice while it worships wealth.
The insults Mitch threw in Obama's face
disdain to hide his crass appeals to race.

captured seat

McConnell stole Obama's High Court seat
defying centuries of precedent
Kentucky lawyer, not too proud to cheat
and claim that's what our Founding Fathers meant.
Since "Marbury", we look to the Supremes
to parse our Constitution, or a pact.
It's they who tell us what a statute means,
and who establish when a fact's a "fact".
Much that was long-established's overthrown;
tripartite government lists to one side.
Executive aspires to rule alone
contempt of court is piled on deep, and wide.
Neil Gorsuch thinks himself Scalia's heir,
 in bed with criminals who put him there.