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To: epicure who wrote (52758)	7/9/2002 11:45:41 AM
From: Michael M	Read Replies (2) of 82486

Protecting the minority and letting the minority make the rules are two different things. When courts deviate too far from the norm they subject themselves to ridicule, scorn and worse. I am not the lock-step rightwinger you might suppose but I do believe strongly in the value of sacrificing a degree of personal interest for the common interest. Everyone can't have it their way. Our courts are too valuable to be trivialized by ultra-individualists, rapacious trial lawyers or an imperial judiciary. The courts walk a fine line in a democracy. The Ninth Circuit, IMO, is on the far side of the line. I was surprised last night to hear that Justice Rheinhardt's wife is the head of the Northern CA ACLU. She's probably the mainstream thinker in the family.....

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