No Tears Shed for Justice Moore

[David Cruz]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Truthserum wrote:

> [snip] folks who vote for a judge demonstrate by the act that they disagree
> with the bar's view that the folks selecting the judges can't be trusted to
> act with propriety.
>
> Jim "First thing, let's disenfranchise all the people" Henderson
> Senior Counsel
> ACLJ

I don't see how the act of voting for a judge demonstrates that.  Isn't it
equally consistent to think that many people vote for a judge because they
do not trust others to act with propriety and so can't afford to "sit this
one out"?  Now, evidence that "the people" (Jim's phrase -- we don't have
elections for federal judges, so this "people" can't be the undivided "We
the People") are seeking to establish regimes in which they get to vote
for judges might support Jim's claim.  But the fact that people make the
best they can of such regimes is not evidence that they are tickled pink
with the regime.

-David B. Cruz, USC Law (Cal.)