How does one excerpt Thomas Sowell? This is really a ‘must-read’.
Appoint enough Supreme Court justices with “empathy” for particular groups and you would have, for all practical purposes, repealed the 14th Amendment, which guarantees “equal protection of the laws” for all Americans.
We would have entered a strange new world, where everybody is equal but some are more equal than others. The very idea of the rule of law would become meaningless when it is replaced by the empathies of judges.
Barack Obama solves this contradiction, as he solves so many other problems, with rhetoric. If you believe in the rule of law, he will say the words “rule of law.” And if you are willing to buy it, he will keep on selling it.
Those people who just accept soothing words from politicians they like are gambling with the future of a nation. If you were German, would you be in favor of a law “to relieve the distress of the German people and nation”? That was the law that gave Hitler dictatorial power.
He was just another German chancellor at the time. He was not elected on a platform of war, dictatorship or genocide. He got the power to do those things because of a law “to relieve the distress of the German people.”
I read this at IBD. Smashing! but then Sowell is always smashing. Krauthammer had a wonderful example of an emphathetic supreme court which might rule that a mortgage company give home loans ONLY to those needing empathy and sympathy.
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Good grief. Who knew there would come a day when being a loser is something to strive for?
Goodnight, Maggie!
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