I view this venal corruption as the inevitable result of the intellectual, proceedural and constitutional corruption which the left has insinuated into our legal system.
The left has wrenched our polity away fom the constitution, pettifogging its plain meaning. It has used judges to accomplish this.
It has undermined democracy by converting political issues like abortion or sodomy into legal/constitutional questions. It has used judges to accomplish this.
It has made a mindless parlour game of gotcha out of the criminal justice system, substituting a gauntlet of obstacles which the prosecution must negotiate in place of the quest for truth. It has used judges to accomplish this.
It has established favored groups and disestablished other less favored Americans not only as they interact with their government but privately, as in matters of free association or job quotas. They have used judges to accomplish this.
The left has corrupted the process of selecting judges. First, by character assination as against Bork and then Thomas. Now, by filibustering their way to a super majority. It is not original to observe that this was the predictable result of politizing the judicial system.
The left has has attempted to to control elections through judicial fiat as in the Florida Supreme Court with its palpable bias in the election matter. Or in California where the courts overturned a sucessful referendem on policy grounds. Or in Arizona where a court usurped the budget making powers. Likewise in Pa. They used judges to accomplish all of this.
And it was equally predictable that quite soon the judges themselves would start jiggering their own system. The left has made the stakes too high to leave the answers to the rules of proceedure. So we see the assignment judge playing games in the Clinton affair. We see the crcuit court jobbing the system in the affirmative action cases. This happens precisely because the left made them judges to get their agenda into the books, not to concern themselves with so abstract a notion as "justice." So leftist judges beome corrupt in the administration of their own courts.
Now we see venal corruption. This was also to be foreseen. Why should greed stand as the lone taboo in a sea of sin and political opportunism. Just where should the whore say, "no, that far I will not go."
Excellent deconstruction. Many important points made.
Here's another take on how the left has corrupted and degraded our judicial system and our culture.
“Tolerance and compassion” is the left's signature scam. Here’s how it works: They establish their bona fides by beating their breasts about how great they are, b/c they are T&C. This then frees them up to work any number of swindles. The conniving Clintons are the prototypes for this gambit.
Of course the left hates conservatives b/c conservatives are normal, productive people......the heart and soul of America.......an America the left despises.
Despite the constant bleating about their so-called "tolerance and compassion," for every living thing (except conservatives and the unborn), lefty liberals have an unmitigated and utter contempt for humanity.
Self-loathing libs just can't feel good about themselves unless they are in the throes of "victimization" and either 1) causing victims, 2) concocting victims, 3) playing victim, 4) commiserating over victims, or 5) creating another class of victims to bleed over.
Conservatives will not lie down and become victims, ergo, the left goes ballistic. Should we really care if they hate us? Only if they interfere with the administration of our government and if they infringe on our rights. And speaking of infringing our rights, meet the ACLU...........the paradigm conservative (and Christian) hater.
I would bet you dollars to donuts Garson, Clarence Norman, their Dummycrat ilk, and all of the lowlifes in the Brooklyn court system are ardent proponents of so-called tolerance and compassion. And they've calculatedly used it to pull of scam after scam to line their pockets.
So much for tolerance and compassion, eh?