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354. Almost unfair

By Joel Jacobsen

The end of the Supreme Court's term had me feeling a strange and unexpected emotion: pity.  These nine people seem so badly out of their depth that criticizing them seems almost unfair, like making fun of your local public-access-TV host and perennial candidate for office.Almost.  Because the fruitcake gadfly (fruit fly?) who drives around town in an old beater with bumper stickers where the paint job used to be can only tell the rest of us how we really ought to live our lives.   We don't have to pay attention, and most of us don't.The Supreme Court makes us obey.It's the power of commanding obedience that paints the target on the justices' robes, even if criticizing their most recent productions feels just a bit like pointing out flaws in the dismount of a Special Olympics gymnast...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on June 29, 2008 (boomark / email).