Judge yourself

摘要

America is a nation of laws (and lawyers). Questions that in other countries are addressed by parliaments are frequently delegated to the courts. Respecting the independence of the judiciary is a canon of American politics. So it is somewhat shocking to find conservatives hurling references to Stalin and the Ku Klux Klan into a dispute over judges. "Stalin had a slogan, and it worked very well for him, whenever he ran into difficulty: 'no man, no problem'...We are in this mess because we have the wrong people as judges." That was a lawyer, Edwin Vieira, addressing a conference on "Confronting the judicial war on faith".