[Buckhead]

A man of your erudition has certainly seen this magnificent quote from Cardozo, which fits this case so well:

Judges march at times to pitiless conclusions under the prod of a remorseless logic which is supposed to leave them no alternative. They deplore the sacrificial rite. They perform it, none the less, with averted gaze, convinced as they plunge the knife that they obey the bidding of their office. The victim is offered up to the gods of jurisprudence on the altar of regularity.

The Growth of the Law, in Selected Writings of Benjamin Nathan Cardozo 214 (Margaret E. Hall ed. 1947).

[Congressman Billybob]

No, my friend, I had not seen that excellent and appropriate quote from the great Benjamin Cardoza. Thank you for putting it up for all of us.

John / Billybob