A Healthy Distrust

The protection of our rights through judicial channels depends on the idea that judges will self-check the influence that their political ideologies have on their judicial decision-making. However, this check is illusory; when we choose to believe in its efficacy we re-entrench our dependence on the state apparatus for protection. It takes lawyers who recognize this fact to create a counterbalance to the threat to our liberty that results from blind faith in judicial restraint. This is something we, as the future of the law, must keep in mind when we begin to mold our practices in the coming years.