Dear Mr. Trump,

How nice for you, Sir, that the Supreme Court allows you to be a bigot, that the so-called conservative justices – what a misnomer – have ignored the Constitution’s First Amendment to pretend that you’re not a racist.

What a joy for you, Sir, that the disgusting anti-Muslim things you’ve said don’t count in court. It’s like a Nazi Germany court ruling in 1934 that Hitler’s diatribes against the Jews are not relevant. Mein Kampf? Der Fuhrer was just mouthing off.

A fairly constituted Supreme Court, one to which Merrick Garland had been confirmed, would not for a second have allowed you to carry out your anti-Muslim bias. But now it seems you’ve been given license to practice discrimination against anyone – all the inhabitants of those “shithole” countries you hate, all the victims of gangs who are trying to seek asylum in America to survive another day – in the name of “national security.” The Muslims today, the Jews tomorrow, the Catholics the day after, the disabled the day after that, the judges you don’t like next week.

It’s your bigotry that destroys our national security and nothing else.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger