Our former Chief Justice, William H. Rehnquist, spoke of the role of the judge using a metaphor from his favorite sport: The Constitution has placed the judiciary in a position similar to that of a referee in a basketball game who is obliged to call a foul against a member of the home team at a critical moment in the game: he will be soundly booed, but he is nonetheless obliged to call it as he saw it, not as the home court crowd wants him to call it. The day a judge shirks from that responsibility, Chief Justice Rehnquist counseled, is the day he or she should resign from office. I heartily
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I find it sad that no longer seems to be the case within the Supreme Court.
