#TheNewAmericanCivilWar: 1/2 Regicide: killing or disabling the leader, by any means. Michael Vlahos: @JHUWorldCrisis .
Image: This contemporaneous print depicts Charles I's decapitation #TheNewAmericanCivilWar: 1/2 Regicide: killing or disabling the leader, by any means. Michael Vlahos: @JHUWorldCrisis . Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, in re: Sen Schumer’s physical threats against two Supreme Court Justices. In a march to regicide, if you can’t initially get the king, you start by taking out his counselors. The power for Dred Scott was not just the consequence; but the decision illuminated how the Supreme Court has been a kind of existential ratification of law and How Things Should Be. Dred Scott was seen [by the South] as a final resolution of all conflicts, north and south; the ultimate vindication of their practice of slavery. . . . the line of demarcation, the point of no return. Once these lines are clearly established and agreed upon, then there’s nowhere else to go.