We're told she has terrific "common sense." Common sense is the last thing you want in a judge!
Ann said that common sense was the LAST THING we wanted in a judge. And she didn't mean it was the last of a list of things she wanted, she meant it was something you definitely did NOT want.
I did use logic to determine that if you did NOT want a judge with common sense, then you must WANT a judge with no common sense.
I'll readily admit that I don't believe Ann MEANS this, but she certainly did SAY it, and she meant to say it -- this isn't her being sarcastic.
OK, I stand corrected. But her exaggeration aside, the SC hears dozens of cases each year, and most of them (as Ann said in an earlier column) are dry-as-dust rulings on........
Sigh. To find a good example of a "dry-as-dust ruling," I found myself reading Rehnquist's year-end summaries, and completely lost heart for this debate. The 2004 summary, for example, is so full of self-serving claptrap, including an appeal for increased funding of the judiciary and a defense of judicial activism... I surrender. The robed ones rule us, and changing them will take generations. Ain't gonna happen. I give up.