Tom Sowell hits another one out of the ball park.
Of course everything he says is obvious, but agendas die hard.
This particular idea resonated with me because it should remind us all that even legislators are not elected to indulge their private fantasies of what Constitutional Government means, nor to enjoy a puerile power trip.
Strip them of the title and they are all human beings as the rest of us are, many with the most bizarre quirks and character flaws.
Judgeships for life is a concept born in a simpler age, when certain rules and truths were assumed obvious, self-evident and eternal. That is no longer true.
Rules created during that simpler age have been exploited, twisted and degenerated to satisfy the darker side of our nature and the combination of that with egalitarianism has brought us to an impasse.
Rules must change. But how? and when?
The "why" should be obvious.
The rule by the qualified. Wish I knew the name. Oligarchy is not quite it. It must never be arbitrary. Most Americans should qualify. But there is a pressing need to make sure legislators and judges are not only sane, but also must meet a minimum level of intelligence, knowledge and common sense. We all know what that is but I see a long debate in the attempt to codify it.
No more planting flags on Mars, or conjuring up penumbras, judicial sophistry writ large.