- Rich Hein/Sun-Times Media
- Judge Richard Posner in 2003
The difference between law and sausage is that it doesn’t pay to look too closely at how either’s made but sausage is edible.
Your average American—not to mention your average judge, especially during confirmation hearings—would say that “the judge’s job is to keep faith with enacted statutes and the Constitution and also with whatever precedents have been decided,” Waldron writes, “whether he likes them or not, even when his private view is that the measures he is called on to administer are silly or wrong.”
Of course Posner has no faith in legislators! I told myself as I finished Waldron’s piece. Look where he lives! In Illinois. In Chicago.
