The Courts Are Courting Disaster by Alienating Conservatives
Kurt Schlichter
The problem with the courts is the same as the problem with many of our other institutions. Called the Skinsuit Phenomenon, after the great @Iowahawk’s famous tweet that perfectly sums up the leftist approach to marching through our society: “1. Identify a respected institution. 2. Kill it. 3. Gut it. 4. Wear its carcass as a skinsuit, while demanding respect. #lefties.” The courts are supposed to have respect because they’re supposed to do their job, but, as is so common these days, they’re not doing the job, yet they still expect the respect. That’s just not in the cards. Things are going to change. It’s just a matter of how they change. They could change back to when the courts acted like courts, or they could change to where the courts get kicked to the curb.
The courts fulfill several functions. Courts resolve disputes between individuals and entities – we call that “civil law,” which I did for about 30 years. Courts also resolve criminal disputes, where the government charges that someone committed a crime and the accused denies it. These are the most common things that courts do, the routine work that allows society to function. However, there is another role that courts play. Courts determine limitations on government power, and that’s where we have problems. In the first two roles, courts certainly screw up on a regular basis, but it’s not a systematic problem. With some exceptions – hello, family law in general, insane plaintiffs’ verdicts, and government persecutions like the J6 pogrom – the courts generally function adequately. You can be fairly certain you will be heard and fairly certain that the courts will apply something that is at least somewhat similar to the law to your case.
But then you get to political cases, and everything goes crazy. Take it from a lawyer – the kind of antics that go on in political cases have nothing to do with the normal law that goes on day-to-day in other courts. Procedurally, you don’t have crazy things like ex parte motions to certify a class filed at 3 a.m. on a Saturday morning and granted within 15 minutes without allowing opposition. This doesn’t happen. And substantively, you don’t have courts ruling on matters where their jurisdiction has been expressly removed by legislation or otherwise ignoring the clear text of the Constitution and the applicable statutes. In normal cases, judges hate to be reversed by the courts of appeal. In political cases, lower court judges seem to wear reversal like a medal and run hog wild.
more
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2025/06/05/the-courts-are-courting-disaster-by-alienating-conservatives-n2658158
