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Why Courts Must Defer to Legislatures

Elected officials, after all, are intelligent people who carefully consider the issues: A special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets turned tense and bizarre this afternoon. County commissioners were discussing problems with the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket payments and handle other paperwork normally done by the JP Courts. Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections "has become a black hole" because paperwork reportedly has become lost in the office. Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud "Excuse me!" He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become a "white hole." Yep.  Those are exactly the type of people judges should defer to.continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on July 09, 2008 (boomark / email).