Legality is not morality.
The United States was founded on it. Invade, colonize, slaughter, “this is our land now.” No one is above the law; well, the law written specifically to empower greedy white guys, the law that said a black person was worth less than one person and that women could not vote.
Manifest destiny was violent westward expansion motivated by greed and religious delusion.
Now bible-thumpers seek to make the US “great” again… for straight white landowners. Some christian women are unironically stating they would gladly give up their right to vote if it meant living in a less liberal country. Some christians are unironically citing the bible as justification for slavery and genocide.
Somehow, too many people have become conditioned to excuse a death cult that renamed the department of defense to the department of war, regularly protects pedophiles, and seeks to legislate entire portions of the population out of existence.
The vague mandate republicans keep talking about? They probably think it’s from god. Project 2025, the heritage foundation… It’s painfully obvious. But when all the supreme court judges are playing along, how do we repair our broken systems? What good are laws founded on nonsense? How do we stop the damage being done each day? There can be no accountability as long as grown adults who believe in magic hold influential positions.
At what point does a question become too broad and cryptic to answer?
At the point that it does.
For the United States: somewhere around 1857–charitably.
That was a long time ago—here in Germany, it was 1933 when Hitler enacted the so-called Enabling Act.
Nazi Germany was defeated in World War II, but U.S. billionaires made sure that their counterparts were never held accountable for their crimes.
That is why, in light of recent events, I ask
The United States has a long history of the using the legal system to enforce Jim Crow laws… but really, most of the injustice is just persistent bias at every stage of the judicial process–from being stopped by police, to being arrested by police, to be tried in court, to being sentenced. Black people are just stopped more, arrested more, tried more, convicted more, and sentenced to harsher punishments. There’s no need to EXPLICITLY spell it out. Everyone just knows to do their job to enforce white supremacy within the letter of the law.
That said, there are definitely some laws to help along the police state oppression: civil forfeiture, qualified immunity, lower civil rights protections in “high crime areas” (read: black neighborhoods).
The way you ask your question, though, it makes it sound like you’re asking when the justice system gives its EXPLCIT BLESSING to injustice, as opposed to just ALLOWING it to happen. I think that’s much rarer.
I can’t understand how you can still believe you’re living in a functioning constitutional state.
Everything you say is completely refuted by the Epstein case alone.
I can’t understand how anyone can be so blind.
As I said, in Germany, massive violence was necessary to bring about Nazi rule.
In the U.S., that doesn’t even seem to be necessary, because its citizens apparently view blatant injustice as the norm.
The point at which the U.S. legal system endorses absolute injustice has long since been reached. Even the Supreme Court agrees.