Sunday, June 15, 2008
Dahlia Lithwick on the workings of the Supreme Court
An interesting look at the dynamics of opinion on the court and how it will effect you and I in the years ahead.
Both Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain are finally beginning to campaign as though the composition of the Supreme Court actually matters. And that's a good thing, because -- the American public's lack of interest notwithstanding -- the court counts as much as almost every other issue facing the voters in November. Assuming that you work, worship, vote, parent, own property the government might covet or occasionally have sex, the high court will intimately affect your life. This is particularly true now that the average justice is older than Mount Rushmore and the next president may well have two or three new court picks in the space of a few years.Whether we will live under the rule of law or the brutal lash of neo-conservatism will be decided this November. Ask not whose rights the Old Fart wants to trample, they are yours, for the time being.
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