In our increasingly polarized public discourse, creeping emotionalism is distorting the definition of important words. Call me old fashioned, but I like my words with their conventional meanings hanging neatly in their respective closets so we can find them when needed.
Does anybody know?
Caught Justice Breyer on C-Span the other night speaking about his rationales for deciding certain cases that came before him on the Supreme Court.
This earnest but typically fuzzy-headed liberal spent some time justifying the Court’s consideration of foreign law to judge cases before our American court, most recently invoked in the Court’s decision to forbid executing teenagers. He wants to bring us in line with legal positions taken by foreign courts and judges, kind of, like, you know, getting us to go with the worldly flow.
Will Maintain Busy Schedule, Nevertheless.
