Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Now here's a scary thought.....

....no less than four members of the Supreme Court cannot parse out a very simple clause "shall not be infringed."

I kind of expect, for example, that the mayor of a city where the average public school graduate reads at a 6th grade level might have trouble with this concept, but among the Yalies of the Supreme Court?

Maybe we ought to rethink that the phrase "elite law school" means, eh?

2 comments:

W.B. Picklesworth said...

Maybe it's less a matter of comprehension than character. Some judges succumb to the allure of "doing good" instead of hewing closely to their job description. A judge determined to do good is a dangerous creature indeed.

Bike Bubba said...

Might be right....though I would have to think that as one viewd U.S. and world history, they'd be compelled by evidence alone to consider the idea that Lex Rex is a pretty darned good idea.

Of course, as I've conceded before, the character defect of hubris is a great way to overcome the limitations of the evidence. Good point.