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April 18, 2005

A Vast Right "Constitution In Exile" Conspiracy

The Volokh Super-Conspiracy drolly notes that, having completely invented the concept of "man-dates" (previously known as "two straight guys hanging out and talking"), the New York Times has decided to try its hand at even greater fabulism and concocts a scary neo-Illuminatus conspiracy called "the Constitution in Exile" Movement.

Orin Kerr has been on this for a while, but this piece is a good start, and links to other posts addressing the non-conspiracy are linked beneath it.

There is no doubt that conservatives have little use for activist liberal judges. That much of the Jeffrey Rosen confabulation is true enough.

The journalistic sin committed here is "sexing up" the evidence, to borrow a phrase from the BBC. "Conservatives oppose the anti-democratic and frankly unconstitutional practice of judges sitting as a superlegislature creating or voiding laws as they see fit, not according to actual dictates of the Constitution but according to their own political notions of what constitutes good public policy" is simply not sexy.

First of all, that proposition sounds sort of reasonable to most people, Juan Williams being a definite exception. (Anyone see him whining about the "assault on judges" and Bush's attempt to pack the court with "right wing extremists" on FoxNews Sunday yesterday? Brit Hume and William Kristol were in full-on eye-rolling sarcasm mode.) Even if someone disagrees with the idea, it hardly sounds dangerous or conspiratorial. It just sounds like, well, an idea.

And so, the invention of a name and a movement. Names have evocative power; and ideas themselves usually do not make compelling "bad guys" in a dramatic story. For drama to work, you need actual people to serve as "bad guys" embodying the hateful idea; ideas really can't be defeated, but flesh-and-blood villains advocating those ideas can.

The way they... surround a story, yes-yes?

I'm so glad that the MSM escews the "shooting from the hip" mentality we bloggers have. Must be all that "fact checking" and "multiple layers of verification."


posted by Ace at 10:57 AM
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When he used the term "packing the court" I wondered if he really meant to compare Repubicans' demands for an up-or-down vote to (liberal favorite) FDR's threat to increase the number of Justices on the Supreme Court. FDR literally threatened the judicial branch so that he could push his vision on America. Then he interned the Japanese (and some others) and instituted a draft.

How is it that liberals still love FDR again?

Anyway, let's not even mention Lincoln's attack on an out-of-control judiciary who overturned legislation.

Farkin' idiots.

Posted by: Birkel on April 18, 2005 01:21 PM

Wow. Kerr's all over that. Don't think I can say anything bout the article he hasn't already and better. The one thing though, again, are those pictures (and Kerr's added them in an update)

Really, I don't think I've seen pictures so obviously calculated to sway readers that the subject isn't just troubling but full-tilt-boogie EVIL in I don't remember. Comic book supervillain evil. I know it's a 'magazine' piece and supposed to be more 'playful' or whatever, but those things have no business being printed in anything affiliated with anything making the even remotest claims of objectivity.

Really, would they photo child molesters in such a fashion? No, there'd be a warmness to it for irony's sake if nothing else. Some allusion to human grace... redemption. Something. But Epstein? No such luck. He's the evil wizard hidden behind the throne. True, unmitigated evil. Not a good weekend for non-leftists in photos.

Posted by: Ray Midge on April 18, 2005 01:34 PM

Nice Robert Anton Wilson reference.

Posted by: Beck on April 18, 2005 07:50 PM
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