Why I Think the System is Ripe to Fall

The powers that be have ruled over courts long enough and I believe their hubris and a confluence of other things will bring them down: soon

For at least a year I have been telling those involved in the court reform movement that the system is ripe to fall. 

The system is decades and even centuries in the making. Thomas Jefferson, referring to the judiciary, once said, “The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working underground to undermine our Constitution from a co-ordinate of a general and special government to a general supreme one alone. This will lay all things at their feet. … I will say, that against this every man should raise his voice.”

The tyranny of the judiciary is not new. Indeed the Salem Witch Trials showed the corrosive power of the tyranny of the judiciary.

Judges by decree claimed women were witches and sentenced them to death. There was during the Salem Witch Trials the introduction of spectral evidence in which someone could testify that they dreamed that a woman was a witch and this “evidence” could be used to deem a woman a witch and sentenced to death. 

Fortunately, as I learned, most judges during the Salem Witch Trials rejected spectral evidence, while others ruled that no woman could be deemed a witch with only spectral evidence.