Courts Can Make You Pay

  In which branch of our government have those pushing a leftist, secular, humanistic, socialistic, ungodly agenda been most successful? You are right if you answered the judicial branch. Powerful people with seemingly unlimited resources have found courts at every level of our system of government to be very friendly to their beliefs and desires, regardless of the long-term, and sometimes even short-term, consequences of their decisions.

   Why this happens is fairly easy to understand, at least from my non-rocket-scientist mind’s perspective. First, judges are attorneys, most of whom have been educated in institutions of higher learning that pride themselves on hiring professors who are absolutely besotted with liberal ideologies, which they are only too happy to pass on to those under their tutelage.  And, of course, the vast majority of those going to law school have been through 16-plus years of government schools where they were first indoctrinated in this liberal mind-set.

   Second, all federal judicial positions are appointed, not elected. Many states follow that pattern. Wisconsin does not. Currently, we elect our judges from municipal right on through our state supreme court.  Many federal judges today have been appointed by liberal presidents, some going back to Bill Clinton.  Liberal presidents appoint liberal judges. That’s just how it is. And at the state level, liberal governors ...