2012.02.13
Editorial: Usurping judicial authority
An injudicious restraint of judges
House lawmakers want to take by law a power the state Supreme Court reserves to the courts.
At best, laws are blunt instruments enacted in good faith to balance the scales of justice when people do bad things.
Lawmakers cannot envision, much less account for, every human factor relevant to a particular crime. Justice is best served, and thus society is best served, if judges have latitude to use their best judgment in the cases that come before them.
