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Argument: "One Judge Conquers All"
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution -- what we know as the "Bill of Rights"-- were drafted and enacted precisely because their brilliant tribunes believed and understood that minorities would, from time to time, need and deserve formal and explicit legal protection from the tyrannies of the majority. They represent foundational truths about our brand of democracy -- that the power of our vote may in certain circumstances be limited, that the majority's rule and role is not absolute, and that mob rule -- whether via vigilante or ballot initiative or legislative fiat -- should not and cannot overcome the principle that we all have individual rights and freedoms and privileges and protections.
In other words, just because 52 percent of a people in a place say they want something done doesn't mean what they want done is lawful.
To life-tenured judges, our Framers then gave the job of sometimes saying "no" to the whims and caprices of the majority. It's in Article III of the Constitution. They did this because they wanted someone within the three branches of government to be professionally and political immune from the sort of slander and libel being tossed these days at Judge Walker.
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