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Jens 'n' Frens |
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Lileks today makes a point:[I]f someone accuses a judge of being unable to uphold the law because they hold a personal belief that conflicts with the law - even though that belief has nothing to do with the specifics of the case - then the accuser might be giving us a window into their own souls. The accuser might be suggesting that they would overturn a law to fit their personal morality, regardless of the fitness of the statute.Where he's leading, I think, is that it doesn't matter what a judicial candidate's views are, it only matters whether it matters what his views are. If it matters what his views are, deny him promotion, impeach him from any current position he holds, expel him from the bar, and have him excommunicated, regardless of what those views actually are. |
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