Gutting
This is the third time that Chief Justice John Robert’s has overseen a Supreme Court ruling on a challenge to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that most observers have described as a gutting of the law’s powers to protect Black and minority participation in American democracy.
I detect a pattern. If I had a nickel, etc, etc.
This week’s cartoon comes one day before the end of the month. That was not planned. My original plan was to work on the last cartoon of the month over the past weekend. But then a massive migraine attacked me, bringing on exhaustion and fatigue. I finally recovered yesterday when the ruling came down and I responded viscerally — with evisceration!
Confused by the unlabeled caricatures? Here they are in order of appearance: Martin Luther King, Jr; Lyndon B. Johnson; a young John Roberts; a murderous John Roberts; Peter Thiel, a Klansman, Roberts again, and that dithering idiot rapist pedophile whom 33% of the country reveres as the next Jesus.
Discussion ¬