judicial tyranny

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Wed May 16 10:07:29 PDT 2001


At 03:23 PM 5/15/01 -0400, Charles wrote:
>Excuse the analogy, but it reminds me of the sacred principle of the
conservatives in the Goldwater period: Opposition to budget deficits ! That "principle" proved to be illusory when Reagan ran up the biggest deficits and debt in history. Some of Rehnquist's conservative "principles" were as phony as some of Goldwater's. Their real principles are capitalism, racism, male supremacy, the whole rightwing nine yards. "Judical restraint" was a tactic meant to restrain the court when it was relatively liberal, a tactic to be discarded when the conservatives have the power to be active.
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Charles, you are too generous to those opportunistic power-grabbing schmucks. Their only *principle* (as opposed to rationalizations and excuses) is the country club/clan mentality - us the select few versus the rest of them. Them screw us - bad; us screw them - good. That is all. Capitalism, racism or sexism imply a consistent model of behavior instead of ad hoc opportunism, which as you convincingly argue, is the modus operandi of the SC. If racism or sexism were the principle, you would expect Thomas and O'Connor to dissent, no? Not to mention that a true laissez faire capitalist would oppose government restraints on individual choice that involves smoking weed.

wojtek



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