It seems to me that many federal judges, all the way up to include the Supremes, have this knack and see their jobs as reading the Constitution and misinterpreting it into a tale by the Bros. Grimm. Quite a few of them apparently think the Bill of Rights was meant to diminish our rights.
The latest, not the most ridiculous case, was provided by this Barbara Crabb, a onetime judicial Apple of good old Carter's eye in Texas.
Go, find a copy, and read the Constitution yourself - it was written so that We the People would know what was right and what was wrong without requiring highly educated people to distort the intent. Crabb, perhaps in a cloud of marijuana or crack smoke, decided that the Constitution forbids National Prayer Day. Read and decide for yourselves. Remind yourselves, too, that whoever you elect has the power to appoint political nitwits that don't know a habeas from a corpus, to employ an example from "Miracle on 34th Street."
Why are so many of the execrable judges appointed (Say, why don't We the People get to vote on these choices?) by lunatic presidents? See Soto-what's-her-name and the Harvard dragon mentioned as presently under B.O.'s consideration. Note also, though, that some execrable judges have been appointed by decent presidents. Several have grown loonier with age, which is a good argument for less-than-lifetime terms for these people.
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