Small-Town Politics, National Consequences: The Supreme Court takes up a Texas power struggle involving allegedly retaliatory arrests of two councilwomen.

Doot doot doot.
The United States is becoming a fascist police state.
Doot doot doot.
Can't protest, can't object, can't question. Just obey!
Any disruption to the profit machine means your comfortable existence is forfeit.
This is fine.
Actually let's elect more strong men, they'll surely make it better. /s

I always wondered why the founding fathers were looked at with such admiration and reverence for founding a country with concepts that seemed like common sense. I misunderstood. It wasn't common sense at all, rogue arrests, intimidation, threats, that is actually common sense to the monkeys that we humans are. I guess I was naive.

When the people rise up, crush them. Sure is easier than listening, responding with ideas, and respecting democratic institutions.

In June 2019, Siemens reached out to an unusual figure, asking him to take over the criminal investigation. Wright was a police officer in Hill Country Village, another incorporated enclave surrounded by San Antonio, from 1995 to 2000. Wright joined the Castle Hills Police Department as an unpaid reserve officer in 2004.

Wright is also an attorney who practices under his middle name, Wyatt. Anyone in Central or South Texas who’s been near a television in recent years has probably seen an advertisement for his father, Wayne Wright, also an attorney. Alexander Wyatt Wright works at his dad’s firm. Like any good litigator, he has a way with words.

There's always a try-hard lawyer who gets in as a "reserve officer" with little towns because they can. It's usually because they're cop bootlickers, gun-nuts, and/or want a badge to further abuse their already ample privilege as attorneys.

Texas Fifth Circuit. Says it all.