Dear Senator Portman,
This morning I participated in a Greater Cincinnati STEM Collaborative event that took place at the University of Cincinnati. Today was the culmination of the last few months' efforts where the 7th and 8th grade students from several schools in the area participate in a STEM-motived activity to learn about principles of physics in conjunction with learning how to assemble and maintain bicycles.
So today at the celebration of the culmination of the last few months' activities, I had the pleasure to interact with local teenagers from all over the Cincinnati area. What I was particularly pleased about was to see all of these kids, black, white, Asian, Christian, Muslims, and all manner of ethnicity and religion all interacting together and enjoying the moment and enjoying each other.
This reminded me that the decision from Brown vs. Board of Education was published nearly 62 years ago, not long before you were born, in fact. What a difference that decision has made for the progress of our nation. It is important and relevant and significant decisions like Brown vs. Board of Education that allow our nation and our society to grow stronger.
This coming Tuesday, May 17th, marks the 62nd anniversary of that decision.
What a disgrace it will be if another significant case is brought before the Supreme Court, and a moment to take another significant improvement in human rights or economic justice doesn't happen because our Court is understaffed or deadlocked in a split decision. And the reason for that missing element is due to a small group of US Senators who won't take a vote on the President's nominee, for small-minded political reasons.
Interestingly, one of the law clerks in the Supreme Court at the time, researching for one of the Justices, wrote this phrase :
How prescient is that phrase today. The Republican US Senators, who happen to hold the majority in the Senate, are deciding what are the constitutional rights of the rest of the nation ... the right to have a Supreme Court candidate, duly nominated by the President, voted on by the Senate for confirmation.
Please read Article II, Sec 2 of the Constitution, and recall the oath to which you pledged in January of this year, and assess whether you can deny today's generation of students and future scientists the right to have a fully capable and fully staffed US Supreme Court to protect and promote their rights .... and then please #doyourjob, or do the honorable thing : resign.
Sincerely,
P.S. : This, and several of my previous letters to you, can now be viewed on-line at www.do-your-job-rob.blogspot.com. Feel free to check it out, if you want to leave any comments there.
This morning I participated in a Greater Cincinnati STEM Collaborative event that took place at the University of Cincinnati. Today was the culmination of the last few months' efforts where the 7th and 8th grade students from several schools in the area participate in a STEM-motived activity to learn about principles of physics in conjunction with learning how to assemble and maintain bicycles.
So today at the celebration of the culmination of the last few months' activities, I had the pleasure to interact with local teenagers from all over the Cincinnati area. What I was particularly pleased about was to see all of these kids, black, white, Asian, Christian, Muslims, and all manner of ethnicity and religion all interacting together and enjoying the moment and enjoying each other.
This reminded me that the decision from Brown vs. Board of Education was published nearly 62 years ago, not long before you were born, in fact. What a difference that decision has made for the progress of our nation. It is important and relevant and significant decisions like Brown vs. Board of Education that allow our nation and our society to grow stronger.
This coming Tuesday, May 17th, marks the 62nd anniversary of that decision.
What a disgrace it will be if another significant case is brought before the Supreme Court, and a moment to take another significant improvement in human rights or economic justice doesn't happen because our Court is understaffed or deadlocked in a split decision. And the reason for that missing element is due to a small group of US Senators who won't take a vote on the President's nominee, for small-minded political reasons.
Interestingly, one of the law clerks in the Supreme Court at the time, researching for one of the Justices, wrote this phrase :
" ... in the long run it is the majority who will determine what the constitutional rights of the minorities are."
How prescient is that phrase today. The Republican US Senators, who happen to hold the majority in the Senate, are deciding what are the constitutional rights of the rest of the nation ... the right to have a Supreme Court candidate, duly nominated by the President, voted on by the Senate for confirmation.
Please read Article II, Sec 2 of the Constitution, and recall the oath to which you pledged in January of this year, and assess whether you can deny today's generation of students and future scientists the right to have a fully capable and fully staffed US Supreme Court to protect and promote their rights .... and then please #doyourjob, or do the honorable thing : resign.
Sincerely,
P.S. : This, and several of my previous letters to you, can now be viewed on-line at www.do-your-job-rob.blogspot.com. Feel free to check it out, if you want to leave any comments there.
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