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"I think I'll find some little town, population about 87, with an elected town judge. I'll run for office and start playing God myself. There's a whole lotta things I look forward to holding unconstitutional ...."

Actually, it's not a bad idea.

I first had the idea some years back when that penny-ante Spanish magistrate ordered the arrest of General Pinochet while he was travelling in England, and the British government actually detained Pinochet while mulling what to do. My first reaction was unprintable. My second was "Wow, why can't some U.S. small town j.p. order Arafat's arrest?"

There is a lot of fun to be had here. I figure I could be sworn in at 9. By ten, I'd have arrest warrants out on a couple of dozen international bad guys of the left. By eleven, I'd find that the unborn have a consitutional right to life, outlaw compulsory union dues in politics (which seriously ought to be done, and incidentally bankrupting the democrat party is just icing on the cake), overturn the Federal Elections Act, and order complete school choice on equal protection grounds.

Even with a coffee break and long lunch, I figure I could straighten out the country by about three in the afternoon.

All it would take is to have the petitioners lined up ready to go first thing in the morning. On the precedent of the Florida Supreme Court, even that might not be necessary -- I could just act on my own motion, and cite democrats as to why that's legitimate. Oh, to be a judge ....