What do you think about when someone mentions our system of justice and the law? Most people envison the statue of justice the PCB grew up with. The statue of justice standing with blindfold, and the balance scales in one hand and sword in the other signifying that justice is blind and metes out punishment according to the balance weighed in your favor or against it.

There is another image of justice that can be found here . This image of justice, as is pointed out by Francis Schaeffer in his book entitled, How Should We Then Live?, has no blindfold, has sword firmly planted into an open law of God, and holds the scales in the other hand.

With those two images in your mind, think about what should our view of justice be. Should justice be blind, or should justice have a foundation? The next question of course is “What should that foundation be”? I will leave that for you to decide for the moment.

Perhaps this might help. Rush Limbaugh had as a guest on his radio show last Friday, Mark Levin who has written a book entitled, Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America. The transcript of that interview can be found here. As the interview unfolded, it became apparent that Mr. Levin had done some incredible research on the subject of the Supreme Court of the US. The interview only emphasized the importance of becoming informed about the current makeup of the SCOTUS and potential nominations by President Bush of one or more justices. The book can be purchased here.

What follows is just an excerpt of the interview between Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin on Friday.

LEVIN: Well, you know, the book is written for the public, not for you know, Main Street, not for Harvard square. It’s for regular Americans so they can understand what’s happening to their government, how the Supreme Court is disenfranchising them and what they can do about it. There’s really not a year that goes by, Rush — and you talk about it all the time — when there’s some case that comes down, some decision that is really shocking to the American people, whether it’s conferring rights on terrorists or conferring benefits on illegal immigrants and on and on and on. So I thought it was time to really dissect this, really get into this — especially since we’re about to have a major battle over the Supreme Court when the president nominates one, two or three justices in the future. So I’m really trying to arm people who are interested in this subject with information so they can take it to their representatives and participate in this fight.

RUSH: That’s the point. The point is you’re trying to affect the knowledge of the American people so that they can then influence the people they elect to then wield that influence in a productive way. This is something you’re aiming right at the hearts and minds of the people in the arena of ideas.

LEVIN: Yeah. I mean, you know, the public stands there. We watch these left-wing groups savage one outstanding judicial candidate after another. We stand there and we watch the Supreme Court issue one outrageous policy decision after another. We live in the greatest representative republic on the face of the earth. It’s time that we emphasized the “representative” part. We don’t have to leave these decisions to a small cabal of left-wing senators or small cabal of left-wing special-interest groups, or a handful of lawyers who happen to be Supreme Court justices. The Framers didn’t view it that way and we ought not to either.

Maybe that will help you decide whether to buy the book or not. The PCB certainly will.

Now back to the questions posed above. Should justice have a foudation or not, and what should that foundation be? I think you know the answer to these questions by now.

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