Democracy
After yesterday I feel the need to start speaking up to a broader audience than my family and friends: hence this blog. The title of my blog is The 10th Justice, a reference to Judge Learned Hand. Judge Hand sat on the 2nd Circuit Court for almost 50 years and an image of him stands on my desk. I keep him there to remind me of what America is all about. Hand said in his Spirit of Liberty speech that " The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right...". Right now our liberty is threatened by our own president. The partisan divide is widening. Maybe Judge Hand's neutrality, his careful consideration of the facts of the case can save us. He was never appointed to the Supreme Court because he was not a partisan. In the fourteen presidential election in which he voted, six times he voted for the Republican, six times for the Democrat and twice for the independent. In this age of taking sides we need to get rid of sides and look at each issue with c...