
Recently I read that the Senate decided to look into the ethics of members of the Supreme Court. As pleased as I was at this news, I still have serious questions about the recent decisions of the court regarding basic human rights.
As a retired professor of world religions and philosophy, the issue of basic human rights was ever-present. I recall among other sources on my desk was a pocket edition of the U.S. Constitution. The 14th Amendment among other things states: “…No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States…”.