What?

I saw a bit of the American Constitution Society convention on TV today.

Judge Stephen Reinhardt, of the US 9th Circuit, made the absurd comment that we live in a "conservative age" as he tried to imagine the joys of being a judge in a liberal age.

Balderdash. Hillary Clinton made a similar point at that convention; when it came to presenting examples, the best she could do was cite Bush v. Gore. Come on.

The assertion that we live in a "conservative age" is unfounded, yet rhetorically powerful. Those in attendance at Judge Reinhardt's talk cheered wildly when he made his point.

I wonder, though. If this is a conservative age, what would a liberal one look like?

Also, such naked politicking by a judge and a legal society is pretty disgusting, not to mention dishonest. Judge Reinhardt and others at the conference kept going on about the importance of preserving the Constitution, yet the best they could do is say they want to go back to the jurisprudence of the Warren Court. The only thing they would preserve is the unconstitutional creation of fictions not actually located in the Constitution.

To preserve is to ignore and manipulate, in other words.