Alistair Cooke was an articulate British television host and American journalist. He was intrigued and wrote extensively about America and its system for governing. At one point, he was discussing what would happen if a single, unjust law came into being in America. "Well then," Cooke replied, "there is always the Supreme Court to rectify things."
I was reminded of his words when I recently read an account by Brian Schweitzer, Governor of Montana, describing what has happened in his State because of the Supreme Court's infamous Citizen's United Ruling. Reading about the impact of this Law on Montana it is difficult to understand how some members of the Judiciary could so easily give up their power to protect society from the tyranny of organized idealism.
Would that Alistair Cooke's observations and belief in the strength of our judicial system was upheld by the Supreme Court.
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