A Hobbesian Choice

To put your child
in harm’s way
to subject them to the
whim of bureaucracy
to let them care
for your loved one
when they are wrong
just to check off a box
a hurdle to access
to justice. That cannot be.

October 4, 2007 12:48pm
Oral Arguments, Board of Education
of the City School District of the City of New York v.
Tom F., on Behalf of Gilbert F., a Minor Child, 06-637,
October 1, 2007 (1st Monday in October)
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/06-637.pdf

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