Josh Blackman » “No, a judge’s job is to judge, which includes deciding whether majorities are misbehaving at the expense of individual liberty.”

“No, a judge’s job is to judge, which includes deciding whether majorities are misbehaving at the expense of individual liberty.”

April 20th, 2012

George Will criticized Judge WIlkinson’s judicial abdication:

The Constitution is a companion of the Declaration of Independence and should be construed as an implementation of the Declaration’s premises, which include: Government exists not to confer rights but to “secure” preexisting rights; the fundamental rights concern the liberty of individuals, not the prerogatives of the collectivity — least of all when it acts to the detriment of individual liberty.