Crimson Court
- Waadl Cartoonist
- Mar 31, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Jun 26
Drawn on March 29, 2024 | Published from Miami | Updated March 26, 2025
"Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing."
— Ephesians 5:22-24, Holy Bible, King James Version.
Judging from how things are going, perhaps a chapel is a more suitable setting for the Supreme Court to administer divine justice. Considering this judicial body's exclusively monotheistic composition (6 Catholics, 1 Protestant, 1 Anglican, 1 Jew), it isn't hard to picture their inherent predisposition to being inclined to bookmarking the gospel when navigating morally ambiguous dilemmas.
Prayer beware, because the Christian American caliphate is real and may be coming to a courthouse near you.
Example of their religious prerogative:
Alito, S. (2022) SCOTUS Justice Alito at 2022 religious liberty summit: U.S. Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito, YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uci4uni608E (Accessed: 2024).
MSNBC | Red Flag? justice Alito’s wife contradicts cover-up in Jan. 6 scandal (2024) YouTube. Available at: https://youtu.be/sb0R6ND8PkA?si=8U2O_yYKrQqZfzjq (Accessed: 2024).
Example of a religious argument used in legal decisions under review after the landmark Dobbs ruling:
Supreme Court of the United States, 2022. No. 19–1392. Dobbs, State Health Officer of the Mississippi Department of Health, et Al. v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization et Al., Washington DC: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22067246/dobbs-decision.pdf, p.2.“The right to obtain an abortion is [...] an essential component of “ordered liberty.” The Court finds that the right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and tradition. [...] The Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause provides substantive, as well as procedural, protection for “liberty”—has long been controversial.”
Supreme Court of Alabama SC-2022-0515 (2024) publicportal-api.alappeals.gov. Available at: https://publicportal-api.alappeals.gov/courts/68f021c4-6a44-4735-9a76-5360b2e8af13/cms/case/343D203A-B13D-463A-8176-C46E3AE4F695/docketentrydocuments/E3D95592-3CBE-4384-AFA6-063D4595AA1D , p.35 onward. (Accessed: 2024). “Man's creation in God's image is the basis of the general prohibition on the intentional taking of human life. See Genesis 9:6 (King James) ("Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.")”
Whitehurst, L. (2025) ‘States can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the Supreme Court rules’, AP News, 26 June. Available at: https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-planned-parenthood-abortion-medicaid-e056395b9e5646d13539e76605027a1f (Accessed: 26 June 2025).
