Ideology distorts. Whether you're left, right or center it's necessary to be aware of how your political predilections color your perceptions, thoughts and actions. Extreme ideology negates this necessary form of self awareness. Leonard Leo and his accomplices at the Federalist Society have packed the Court with extremist ideologues. The…
Ideology distorts. Whether you're left, right or center it's necessary to be aware of how your political predilections color your perceptions, thoughts and actions. Extreme ideology negates this necessary form of self awareness. Leonard Leo and his accomplices at the Federalist Society have packed the Court with extremist ideologues. The conservative Justices, with the exception of Amy Coney Barrett, lack the ability to engage in intellectual self examination. They seem to be in the thrall to the idea of the Unitary Executive, a concept of near unchallengeable presidential power that has no basis in the Constitution or in the history and tradition of this country. If Donald Trump should return to the presidency the Court will not restrain him. We will, as the Sotomayor's dissent suggested, have a king.
Ideology distorts. Whether you're left, right or center it's necessary to be aware of how your political predilections color your perceptions, thoughts and actions. Extreme ideology negates this necessary form of self awareness. Leonard Leo and his accomplices at the Federalist Society have packed the Court with extremist ideologues. The conservative Justices, with the exception of Amy Coney Barrett, lack the ability to engage in intellectual self examination. They seem to be in the thrall to the idea of the Unitary Executive, a concept of near unchallengeable presidential power that has no basis in the Constitution or in the history and tradition of this country. If Donald Trump should return to the presidency the Court will not restrain him. We will, as the Sotomayor's dissent suggested, have a king.