Those judges who created law and got booted for it were quoted as saying they hope the foregoing process would be retained ‘to avoid politicizing court appointments’. Sure.

Hans Jacobse: “When morality and politics coalesce into a seamless unit (i.e. Progressive politics), America risks becoming captive to ideology (note the failures of the Europeans — fascism, Nazism, Communism, Jacobism…). The American Founders, in their wisdom, realized that the threat to liberty is centralized power. That’s why the restrictions of the Bill of Rights concern the government, not individuals.”

The secular left being reduced to judges seems to be a worldwide trend. Perhaps this is what they wanted?

Because of the common law basis of the legal system, the judicial doesn’t take away as well as it gives.

I’d like the Republicans with their new majority in the IA house to get the Democratic Senate on record for a constitutional amendment to undo this decision. That can take away quite well.

In the meantime, there’s nothing wrong with liberal judges feeling fear every now and then. If they looked over their shoulders a little more often, they’d think about the implications of their actions and possibly save themselves some electoral grief.

Accountability, accountability, accountability.