Buckley on Jurisprudence

The article of William Buckley referenced in this post at QandO expresses how I feel about Constitutional jurisprudence. I don't want judges to "do the right thing." It's not their job. It's the job of the legislature. If you can't convince enough people that what you want is "the right thing", it should give you pause that maybe it isn't. Not that that sort of awareness ever stopped Chairman Mac. The "right thing" for judges is to apply the law that is already written, not write their own moral choices into the law. Emanations and penumbras, indeed.