The Lawyers Are For The Lawyers

Yes, that's a C.S. Lewis allusion.

The Corkmeister calls to our attention a story so predictable the headline could have been written a week ago: "ACLU joins husband in battle to stop feeding of brain-damaged woman".

.... The intervention of the governor, however, altered the landscape, said Howard Simon, the organization's Florida director. Several other significant advocacy groups on the sidelines, such as the AARP, say they, too, are now looking at the issue.

The entry of the ACLU and possibly other influential players into the life-and-death drama playing out in Tallahassee and the Tampa area underscores the growing dimensions of the coming court battle over whether the state's top leaders acted unconstitutionally in sidestepping the courts in the high-profile right-to-die case.

By substituting his judgment for the judgment of the courts, the governor "set aside the role of the whole judicial system," Simon said, warning that a precedent has been set for Bush and legislators to write laws gutting any court decision they don't like....

The rest of us, non-lawyers, might call that "checks and balances" and "the will of the people expressed through their elected representatives".

Note what's really going on here: lawyers are fighting for the continued power of lawyers — that is, those lawyers among them who just happen to have been apotheosized into judges. They are hardly, therefore, disinterested parties: who among them doesn't crave the power a judgeship would bring to him?

And that's what this is about for the ACLU: not the life or death of one woman, but the continued ability of our black-robed masters to impose the Culture of Death — and anything else they desire — onto the rest of us with impunity.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 10/24/03 02:50:24 PM
Categorized as Political.