https://www.nationalreview.com/the-tuesday/ruth-bader-ginsburg-didnt- understand-her-job/?utm_source=recirc- desktop&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=right-rail&utm_content=top- stories&utm_term=first
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educated person could fail to understand them. If you would like to
subscribe to “The Tuesday,” you can do so right here. I would be grateful
if you would.
Justice in Drag
Ruth Bader Ginsburg did a great many interesting and impressive things in
her life, but she never did the one thing she probably really should have done: run for office. Ruth Bader Ginsburg wasn’t an associate justice of
the Supreme Court — not really: She was a legislator in judicial drag.
You need not take my word on this: Ask her admirers. “Ruth Bader Ginsburg
had a vision for America,” Linda Hirshman argues in the Washington Post.
What was her vision? “To make America fairer, to make justice bigger.”
That is not a job for a judge — that is a job for a legislator. The job of making law properly belongs to — some people find this part hard to handle
— lawmakers. Making law is not the job of the judge. The job of the judge
is to see that the law is followed and applied in a given case.
not matter if the law is unfair or if the law is unjust — that is not the judge’s concern.
law more fair or more just, then there is a place for you: Congress.
is where the laws are made.
This distinction is an important one. As you may have noticed over the
course of the summer, Americans do not agree on everything. Some of us
have ideas about what is good, decent, fair, just, wise, intelligent, prudent, and necessary that are radically different from the ideas other Americans have about what is good, decent, fair, just, wise, intelligent, prudent, and necessary. Democracy is not good for very much, but
democratic institutions are how we settle those disagreements.
antidemocratic elements of U.S. government, such as the Bill of Rights,
which put certain questions beyond the reach of mere temporary majorities, came out of democratic institutions and were implemented through a
democratic process.
Democracy has its shortcomings — mostly rooted in the fact that human
beings are universally fallen and in the majority savage — but the alternative is bonking each other over the head over every disagreement.
Put another way, the alternative is might makes right — which is exactly
the kind of “jurisprudence” Justice Ginsburg and others of her kind have
long practiced. There isn’t a goddamned word about abortion or gay rights
in the Constitution,
Likewise the absence of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage these rights retained by the people.
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-tuesday/ruth-bader-ginsburg-didnt- understand-her-job/?utm_source=recirc- desktop&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=right-rail&utm_content=top- stories&utm_term=first
Welcome to “The Tuesday,” a weekly newsletter about politics, language, culture, and things that are so obvious that only a very expensively educated person could fail to understand them. If you would like to subscribe to “The Tuesday,” you can do so right here. I would be grateful
if you would.
Justice in Drag
Ruth Bader Ginsburg did a great many interesting and impressive things in her life, but she never did the one thing she probably really should have done: run for office. Ruth Bader Ginsburg wasn’t an associate justice of
the Supreme Court — not really: She was a legislator in judicial drag.
You need not take my word on this: Ask her admirers. “Ruth Bader Ginsburg had a vision for America,” Linda Hirshman argues in the Washington Post. What was her vision? “To make America fairer, to make justice bigger.”
That is not a job for a judge — that is a job for a legislator. The job of making law properly belongs to — some people find this part hard to handle
— lawmakers. Making law is not the job of the judge. The job of the judge
is to see that the law is followed and applied in a given case. It does
not matter if the law is unfair or if the law is unjust — that is not the judge’s concern. If you have a vision for America, and desire to make the law more fair or more just, then there is a place for you: Congress. That
is where the laws are made.
This distinction is an important one. As you may have noticed over the course of the summer, Americans do not agree on everything. Some of us
have ideas about what is good, decent, fair, just, wise, intelligent, prudent, and necessary that are radically different from the ideas other Americans have about what is good, decent, fair, just, wise, intelligent, prudent, and necessary. Democracy is not good for very much, but
democratic institutions are how we settle those disagreements. Even the antidemocratic elements of U.S. government, such as the Bill of Rights, which put certain questions beyond the reach of mere temporary majorities, came out of democratic institutions and were implemented through a democratic process. It is from that that they derive their legitimacy. Democracy has its shortcomings — mostly rooted in the fact that human
beings are universally fallen and in the majority savage — but the alternative is bonking each other over the head over every disagreement.
Put another way, the alternative is might makes right — which is exactly
the kind of “jurisprudence” Justice Ginsburg and others of her kind have long practiced. There isn’t a goddamned word about abortion or gay rights
in the Constitution,
Two people have appeared in court accused of playing a role in a
"dark web" child sex ring.
Alfonzo, who gave her nationality as Venezuelan, appeared via
video link.
She faces a separate charge of allowing sexual penetration by a
living animal, namely a dog.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/woman-accused-having-sex-
dog-21159164
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