judges gone bad
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser, feckless bully. 聽The last paragraph (a Prosser quote) is hilarious. h/t Mary Dudas, John Emerson.
Following up on Scott's post, Potter Stewart was famously derided for describing "obscenity" as something that can't be pinned down by formal definition, but which nevertheless can be subject to.
The Iowa supreme court's decision is the kind of thing that seems reasonable to people if they like the substantive result and outrageous if they don't. In other words, cultural conservatives are going to be just as angry about this kind of thing as liberals...
Don't elect judges. Simple as that. Because when you elect judges, you don't get impartial decision-making (to the extent that even exists), you don't get an environment that allows for.
I'm in the depths (of hell) studying now for the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE), which all aspiring lawyers must take before being admitted to the bar. So I'm not.