Stephen Humphreys' lapidary lampoon of the Georgia Supreme Court, “Who Needs Confederate Statues? We've Got the Georgia Supreme Court,” deserves reinforcement.

Throughout the United States, the law becomes more and more a jumble of political calculations with ulterior motives. Suppose the issue before the Georgia Supreme Court had not been abortion but an anti-gun statute that allegedly violated the Second Amendment and the plaintiff were the National Rifle Association. Do you think the court would have told the NRA to go take a hike because it sued the state officials enforcing the law in their official as opposed to their individual capacities?

The court also neglected the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court holding that Georgia had no immunity from suit by a citizen of another state in Chisholm v. Georgia, by justices who were present at the creation.