The Supreme Court Circus is Coming to Town

Every country gets the circus it deserves.

Erica Jong (born 1942), American writer

March 26, 2012, Washington, D.C. – Hear Ye! Hear Ye!The circus is coming to town. It starts today. It ends in three days. Get your tickets now while they're hot!

The circus has everything. It has men in dark suits bearing 136 briefs, six men in black robes, three ladies in black gowns, arch conservatives, leaning liberals, a swinging judge, juggling lawyers, legal beagles, a posse of pundits, braying donkeys, dancing elephants, googling journalists, four hundred rapt politicians in the tent goggling the greatest show on earth, busloads of people from afar milling outside, protesters jeering and cheerleaders cheering, and a vast outside world awaiting news and wondering what’s going on inside.

It even has a child's poem explaining what’s going on.

Here they come
The circus is back in town.
It’s the greatest show around
The biggest thing since Bush and Gore,
How could you ask for anything more.
Yessir! The circus is coming to town.

There are jugglers, lawyers, too
The judges have much to see and do
Now that the circus is back in town.

Donkeys will prance, elephants will dance
Nothing could ever be so grand!

Don’t be left behind
They’re starting today right on time
Cause the circus is back in town
Only four hundred got tickets to see it
Because the circus is back in town.

Here they come
They’re back in town
It’s the greatest show around
Because the circus is back in town.

They’re men in gowns, ladies in robes too
The judges have so much to hear and do
Now the circus is back in town.

The libs will roar, the T's will party,
Nothing could ever be so grand!

The left won’t be left behind
The right will start right on time,
Because the circus is back in town.

In and out,around the circus ring they'll go
Where they'll stop everyone wants to know,
Everyone's on the high wire getting emotional,
All of them asking: is it constitutional?

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