Swift justice is American way

In 1780, the people of Massachusetts organized to deal with a problem Donald Trump presents to America today — endless delays in judicial decision-making.

Those folks who organized Shays’ Rebellion protested the tendency among lawyers “to perplex ... every judicial proceeding ... (and) to delay every process.” Eventually, they won several reforms, including forbidding employment of more than two lawyers on any one case.

They also lobbied hard to eliminate the middlemen in the judicial system in order to move things along to conclusion more quickly.

Trump employs dozens of lawyers and delays judicial proceedings up and down layers of the court system for years, something the founders of this nation would not have tolerated.