Judge Richard Posner of the Federal 7th District Appeals Court, is retiring. The NY Times has some interesting comments from him today. He was appointed by Ronnie Raygun as a conservative. In time he morphed into something else usually called a pragmatist. He also has put out a huge body of scholarship, both as official opinions, and as books.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/us/p ... ement.html
[He has critics.]
Some, he said, simply have a different view of the proper role of the judge. “There is a very strong formalist tradition in the law,” he said, summarizing it as: “Judges are simply applying rules, and the rules come from somewhere else, like the Constitution, and the Constitution is sacred. And statutes, unless they’re unconstitutional, are sacred also.
“A lot of the people who say that are sincere,” he said. “That’s their conception of law. That’s fine.”
He said he had less sympathy for the second camp. “There are others who are just, you know, reactionary beasts,” he said. “They’re reactionary beasts because they want to manipulate the statutes and the Constitution in their own way.”
Fred Reed has his on take on these 'conservatives'(and Democrat polititicians included) on immigration. As usual Fred is more entertaining than a power point presentation from Al Gore.
https://fredoneverything.org/daca-dies- ... uids-safe/
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