I'll have more up about Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's visit to Pomona College later, but I just want to say that I found it to be a horrible waste of time.
O'Connor inveighs against money going into the courtroom, as if that were someone how this great evil in America today.
Well, maybe if judicial figures like herself didn't make such obviously public policy decisions on issues that greatly affect many Americans -- abortion, campaign financing, and affirmative action come to mind -- there wouldn't be the need for all that money in the first place. Judges lose their impartiality when they make public policy, rather than interpreting statutes. Despite her stated reverence for the Constitution today, O'Connor made public policy all the time and indeed she was praised for it. Ask yourself: would she have ever been invited to speak at Pomona College if she didn't hand down the decisions that Pomona's elite deem appropriate? Of course not. The announcer herself says that O'Connor is on the "political center." I say, "And what your point?" If judges were really as unbiased as she would like them to be, such language would be superfluous.
The money flows where the influence is, which is increasingly state courts, and flow it should. No one is unaccountable. We don't need a government by unelected judges.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
A Quick Thought on O'Connor
Claremont Independent Ripped From The Archives
By popular demand -- okay, really just some troll commenter -- asked that I upload all of The Claremont Independents that I have on file. Here's the September 2003 issue. In it, you'll find criticisms of the Posse program (which has been discontinued) and a rebut by Adam Kokesh CMC '06 of the administration's draconian alcohol policy, among other treasures. I hope you enjoy it. Of course, dear readers, if you have a Claremont specific PDF, I'd be happy to upload it so that we can allow following generations to glance upon it.
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