We hear a lot about judicial independence these days. ABA leaders speak about it. Our committees concern themselves with it. Editorial writers opine about it.
Politicians declaim on it.
Let me speak plainly. Our Founders created an independent judiciary as part of our constitutional system of checks and balances for good reason. Power, they knew, tends to expand. It is the very nature of the executive branch to extend its authority. And legislatures invariably seek to enlarge power in the name of the majority.