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Jonah Goldberg Tries to Put Some Brakes on Conservative Rhetoric About Judges, While Giving Historical Perspective

I heard the James Dobson quote he mentions in context. Dr. Dobson was making an analogy with some hyperbole. He was not drawing an exact parallel.

For good or ill — and I certainly think for ill — the days of decorum are over for the foreseeable future. Judges are unilateral legislators, unchecked by democratic accountability. Liberal judges have held sway for so long that any conservative judge who tries to undo what has been done will inevitably look "activist" in his own right. And let's be honest, some conservative judges are perfectly happy with an imperial judiciary, so long as it's a right-wing imperial judiciary.