U.S. Supreme Court

I've found myself in the strange position of disagreeing with almost everything Hugh Hewitt has written about the Miers nomination, but I agree with this:

As you bend over and look for the catcher's signal, should you have to wonder what the umpire's opinion of what the strike zone should be? If you watch much major league baseball, you will see that this is in fact what goes on. One guy calls more low strikes, one guy calls more high strikes, another seems to have added an extra six inches to the outside of the plate, it's a truly nauseating display of personal opinion being inserted in place of the rules.

I was at the University of Michigan Law School Graduation Senior Day last weekend. The Law School Dean, in his opening remarks, used the old Shakespeare line “first let's kill all the lawyers” as a motif from which to rebuke the sometimes over-the-top critics of our Robed Masters.