COLUMN: 06-25-2008

There have been so many bad court decisions recently that reflect a sickening perversion of the role of the judiciary in our system of governmental checks and balances. First, the State Supreme Court of California made a decision that flies directly in the face of a law passed by popular referendum just a few years ago. Despite the public expressing their moral view of marriage by overwhelmingly passing a law in that regard, the liberal judges decided they knew better and reversed the will of the citizens of that state. They also refused to stay their decision for a few months while the people are given an opportunity to overturn their decision again with a referendum on an amendment to the state constitution. This is the ultimate arrogance for those who believe in an autocratic view that they know better than the people they are supposed to serve. There was a similar situation in the US Supreme Court's unfortunate decision that they knew better than the majority of Americans and decided that the rapists of children don't deserve to be put to death. The liberal judges in the majority decided that their view of the "evolving standards of decency" meant that they could go against the will of the American people and decide that this most heinous of crimes that destroys the innocent childhood of its young victim isn't worthy of the death penalty. It's yet another example of the arrogance of liberals who believe themselves to be the ultimate judges of morality based only on their personal views. The unfortunate truth is that the US Supreme Court is not in the least moderate and either passes judgments from the extreme left or the extreme right depending on a few swing votes. (This is despite the fact that conservatives have dominated the electoral choices of Americans for the past 40+ years except for a few minor instances where the corruption of Republicans led to them being ousted from office). We can only hope that the moderate conservative views of the American people will be reflected in the highest court in the land in their future decisions as opposed to the continuation of this disgusting trend.