Black robes and betrayal

"As a former prosecutor, I am convinced that from time to time juries find before them 16- or 17-year-old defendants who understand full well the vicious nature of their murders, and deserve -- after receiving the full panoply of due process -- to be fried, gassed, hanged, shot, injected or otherwise sent promptly to Hell."

-- Tony Blankley

In less cynical times, I would have suggested this might galvanize leaders in the other two branches of our government to act to restore the balance of power. However, that would require both a spine and a political conscience. So much for that type of wishful thinking.

"The germ of destruction of our nation is in the power of the judiciary, an irresponsible body — working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief over the field of jurisdication, until all shall render powerless the checks of one branch over the other and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated."

-- Thomas Jefferson (1821)