Articles of Faith

It is almost an Article of Faith among Conservative Right political folk - the Courts are stacked with liberal activist Judges who will always overturn the will of the Voters. Don't believe me? Well... this week the Godfather of conservative Talk Radio said pretty much exactly that. The problem is, of course, that Articles of Faith are usually - okay, always - based on confirmation bias. That is to say that they are based only upon things that tend to support the statement. events or things that tend to disprove the Article of Faith are generally ignored or dismissed. When it comes to the Constitution, this is especially true. Conservatives believe that Activist Judges are upending the whole thing, while Progressives believe that the Judges aren't activist enough. Which more or less means that the truth is somewhere in the middle. Since I am on the political Right, I prefer to look at things that challenge my own position and thinking. When it comes to the perception of Judges destroying America, there's no place better to start than the 9th Circuit Court in San Francisco. So let's go there and take up the case of a Roseville Police Officer who managed to get herself terminated, for having sex, with a fellow Officer...