Hasnain says:

My only disagreement with this piece is in the final sentence: it’s deserving of more than just a little contempt.

“Recognizing the justices’ ideological project also points to the beginning of the solution. We ought to begin talking about the justices the way we talk about other political actors — recognizing that their first name is not Justice and that they, like other politicians, should be identified by their party.

We should stop talking about another branch’s potential defiance of a judicial opinion as an attack on “the rule of law” and instead understand it as an attack on rule by judges, one that may (or may not) be a justified response to some act of judicial governance. And those other branches should be more willing — as they have at other moments in American history — to use the tools at their disposal, including cutting the judiciary’s funding, to put the courts in their place.

In recent years, the judiciary has shown little but contempt for other governing institutions. It has earned a little contempt in return.”

Posted on 2023-06-02T15:16:52+0000