Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged
The reason our Founding Fathers devised such absolutely clear and simple firewalls between the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government is that they knew each would hate the other most of the time. If any advantage accrued to one over the others the whole democratic experiment would be called because of rain.
They didn’t take this lightly. They were adamant. These separations are the very legs upon which stands American government and fortunately for our history, three-legged stools don’t wobble . . . can’t wobble by their very design.
Liberals and conservatives bark at each other constantly over which of them have an unfair advantage in the courts and the public patiently hopes for balance. Amazingly, what has come out of a half century of mostly Republican legislative control and corresponding judicial appointment is balance. The best evidence of that is how unhappy everyone is, conservative and liberal alike. In a good many cases, strange things happen when a ne…