DONARUDO
WEEK 086 / 089 — The So-Called Judge
Vol. 2 ·  Chapter 9 — American Carnage · Jan 31 – Feb 6, 2017
Manga panel 1 of 5, Week 86 “The So-Called Judge”: An empty podium waits under the chandeliers of the East Room as the cameras assemble for a prime-time reveal of the Supreme Court choice.
TEN DAYS IN, A THRONE TO FILL: THE NINTH SEAT OF THE HIGH COURT. HE STAGES THE CHOICE LIKE A PRIME-TIME FINALE.
Getting ready to deliver a VERY IMPORTANT DECISION! 8:00 P.M.
Manga panel 2 of 5, Week 86 “The So-Called Judge”: Under the chandeliers Donarudo presents his nominee, a calm silver-haired judge, to the bursting camera flashes.
Hope you like my nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch for the United States Supreme Court. He is a good and brilliant man, respected by all.
Manga panel 3 of 5, Week 86 “The So-Called Judge”: Lit from below by the phone's glow, Donarudo answers the uproar: call it what you want, it is about keeping bad people out.
“Everybody is arguing whether or not it is a BAN. Call it what you want, it is about keeping bad people (with bad intentions) out of country!”
Manga panel 4 of 5, Week 86 “The So-Called Judge”: In a shadowed courtroom the robed judge who halted the ban sits with his back turned as Donarudo vows the ruling will be overturned.
“The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!”
Manga panel 5 of 5, Week 86 “The So-Called Judge”: Alone at the rain-streaked Oval Office windows Donarudo broods in the dark as the courts leave his travel ban suspended.
THE COURT DOES NOT BLINK. THE BAN STAYS DEAD. FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE NEW KING MEETS A WALL HE CANNOT SHOUT DOWN.
Because the ban was lifted by a judge, many very bad and dangerous people may be pouring into our country. A terrible decision
TO BE CONTINUED →

This week in the saga

The week opens as theater — a Supreme Court seat revealed like a season finale, the young reign's smoothest night. Then a single robed figure in Seattle halts the travel ban, and the vocabulary of the age acquires its newest weapon: the so-called judge. The chapter's turn is complete — the king who could shout down rivals, networks and parties discovers a wall of marble that does not answer to volume.

Readers' Corner

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