I Want to Grow Up to Be an Activist Judge - All the Power and No Responsibility to Anybody!

The allure to evoke change as a lawyer is hard tobelittling them with lawyer jokes; not because I
resist, but the potential to legislate from the benchwanted to hurt their feelings but, because I believe it
as a judge is the ultimate enticement for an activistis everyone's duty to put them in their place.
rebel, who wishes to compel the world to see theirI asked them if they looked in the mirror and told
view and make them do it through law. Many folksthemselves every morning; "I Want to Grow Up to
become lawyers, and judges because they want toBe an Activist Judge; All the Power and No
make a difference, and in law school they often haveResponsibility to Anybody!"
very socialist leaning professors that mold their mindsThey told me that they did confront their mirror and
into leftist thinking individuals.they were committed to making sure justice
When these folks graduate they take with them aprevailed, and yet, when they told me what justice
good bit of that mindset, unfortunately once lawyers,meant to them, I was horrified to consider the
and judges, they end up limiting our freedoms soamount of freedom they would be willing to take
they can force us all to live their way, from theirfrom me and all of us to see it so. Please consider
point of view. Not long ago, I had this conversationthis if you are in law school, or you look up to a
with a newly graduated lawyer, and I could not helpjudge or lawyer.