Education has been on a downhill slide for several decades. This bus tour is a positive effort to begin turning things and remind people of the principles this nation was founded upon. Liberal judges just happen to believe in good, old fashioned American values as embodied in the Constitution, even when they are inconvenient, or lead to unpopular result. And that makes a lot of politicians uncomfortable. It's not that hard.
Liberal judges believe in a generous or expansive interpretation of the Bill of Rights.
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