Tyranny of the Minority

ReasonOnline ^ | August 6, 2009 | Damon W. Root

[My hearts in London - Everett]

There's a telling personal anecdote in the prologue to the latest book by Pulitzer Prize-winning political scientist James MacGregor Burns, Packing the Court: The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crises of the Supreme Court. The scene is 1937 and Burns is a wide-eyed Williams College undergraduate upset at the Supreme Court for thwarting the will of his beloved President Franklin D. Roosevelt. "How could these justices," he writes in the voice of outraged youth, "most of whom had been appointed to the Supreme Court decades earlier, paralyze a government twice elected by a huge majority of Americans and halt what seemed to us the march of progress?" Fast forward seven decades and Burns is ready with the answer. He's also eager for some payback.

[My hearts in London - Everett]

I thought this was an interesting article. Hypocrisy is not, and has never been in the lib vocabulary.