Originally Posted by
TomMcC
Something about getting onto the SCOTUS turns you soft in the head. You really got to be steel strong in your principles like a, Justice Thomas, or you wind up like a Roberts or worst. The power and prestige must just overwhelm the majority.
And lifetime appointments are supposed to prevent them from worrying about falling out of favor with the populace, but they still do it anyway. Nobody wants to be remembered as the "mean judge" who won't cave into whatever populist views are current.
Of course SCOTUS was wrecked a long time ago, once they ruled Eminent Domain can be used for "private use" if the usage benefited the local population it was all over. It is the most flagrant, exactly OPPOSITE of what the Constitution stated SPECIFICALLY ruling that I can recall.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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