Now I understand the significance of the title "black collar crime!"
What a great and timely topic.
I've read some of your posts on the 'fake originalists.' At this point, calling Alito and Thomas originalists is a bit like calling Trump and his merry men "conservatives." Even a novice like me can recognize that in Trump v. United States, dissenting Justice Sotomayor is the originalist on the bench. The majority has virtually no original constitutional intent on which to hang its hat.
It was only with great difficulty and reluctance that I came to acknowledge (and feel the need to expose) that black-collar crime always has been and always will be a timely topic. The words and deeds, not only of Justice Samuel Chase, but also of current SCOTUS justices, helped proved that point compellingly. So did the writing of the Founders and Framers.
One of the most interesting and intriguing expressions I've seen in any SCOTUS opinion was "judicial despotism." SCOTUS justices got that expression from the writing of Alexander Hamilton (an attorney) in the Federalist Papers writing about the need to safeguard Americans from our so-called judges.
In a letter in January 1787, Thomas Jefferson expressed a similar concern. See https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/tocs/amendI_speech.html (No. 8). “If” the people “become inattentive” to “public affairs,” then “[legislators], judges and governors shall all become wolves.” If the people fail to govern their governors, then “under pretence of governing” our so-called governors “all” will act like “wolves” and attack people like “sheep.” The freedom of speech and press is “the only safeguard of the public liberty.” “The people” must be “censors of their governors” to “keep” public servants “to the true principles of their institution.”
The way students are taught in law school (reading well-written, intelligent, insightful judicial opinions) has a peculiar effect (and maybe it was designed to have such effect) on the psychology of lawyers (and Americans, generally). We're raised up to think of judges as inherently wise and good. But too many judges too commonly commit the same crimes they say other people commit.
Now I understand the significance of the title "black collar crime!"
What a great and timely topic.
I've read some of your posts on the 'fake originalists.' At this point, calling Alito and Thomas originalists is a bit like calling Trump and his merry men "conservatives." Even a novice like me can recognize that in Trump v. United States, dissenting Justice Sotomayor is the originalist on the bench. The majority has virtually no original constitutional intent on which to hang its hat.
It was only with great difficulty and reluctance that I came to acknowledge (and feel the need to expose) that black-collar crime always has been and always will be a timely topic. The words and deeds, not only of Justice Samuel Chase, but also of current SCOTUS justices, helped proved that point compellingly. So did the writing of the Founders and Framers.
One of the most interesting and intriguing expressions I've seen in any SCOTUS opinion was "judicial despotism." SCOTUS justices got that expression from the writing of Alexander Hamilton (an attorney) in the Federalist Papers writing about the need to safeguard Americans from our so-called judges.
In a letter in January 1787, Thomas Jefferson expressed a similar concern. See https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/tocs/amendI_speech.html (No. 8). “If” the people “become inattentive” to “public affairs,” then “[legislators], judges and governors shall all become wolves.” If the people fail to govern their governors, then “under pretence of governing” our so-called governors “all” will act like “wolves” and attack people like “sheep.” The freedom of speech and press is “the only safeguard of the public liberty.” “The people” must be “censors of their governors” to “keep” public servants “to the true principles of their institution.”
The way students are taught in law school (reading well-written, intelligent, insightful judicial opinions) has a peculiar effect (and maybe it was designed to have such effect) on the psychology of lawyers (and Americans, generally). We're raised up to think of judges as inherently wise and good. But too many judges too commonly commit the same crimes they say other people commit.