A Little League baseball player was hit in the eye when he failed to catch a pop fly. Howard makes a convincing case, however, that common sense and common values are missing from courtrooms. A Constitution designed to provide a government respecting common values is now invoked to avoid all values. Justice today is purposeless. He trusts them to decide right and wrong.
Judicial activism has a bad name.
But judges have a responsibility on behalf of free society to assert standards of reasonable behavior and to prevent the power of justice from being used by private parties as a form of extortion. That's their role in our constitutional system. Courthouses are not the only scenes of cultural decline. The Free Lance-Star Publishing Company.