Good think-piece penned by Fred Karl, the former Florida Supreme Court Justice, in last Sunday’s Tampa Tribune. He made the point, and he would know better than most, that “There is nothing involved in being appointed to the court, or being enrobed as a member, that changes a person’s critical attributes or purges one’s mind.” He recalled his own slogan when he was a Florida Supreme Court candidate: “A Justice is the sum of his past.”
Put more prosaically, we all do the best we can to make objective evaluations – especially those that pertain to the law. But everyone lives their life subjectively. It comes with the human condition – whether you’re Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia or Sonia Sotomayor.