Chris Arledge is a lawyer and partner of the firm Turner Green Afrasiabi & Arledge LLP. Arledge is a former clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He has taught constitutional law at California Baptist University, and currently litigates intellectual property disputes. He also sits on the board of Trustees for California Baptist University. He has written the following provocative post concerning the latest Supreme Court ruling concerning the death penalty in the great state of Kentucky. Here is an excerpt, where Arledge summarizes his thoughts.
Far too many Americans–politicians and private citizens alike–have been far too comfortable turning to litigation to achieve societal changes that they could not accomplish at the ballot box. But tactical political victories can have devastating long-term consequences, and a free people should be slow to cede its authority to an unelected, unaccountable judiciary. It is past time to reject the judiciary’s claimed right to enforce its own policy preferences and demand, instead, the judges interpret the constitution, not re-write it. If we do not, we may eventually come to find that this country merely shirked one autocracy for another.
Read the entire post here.
