"A debate this week about judicial activism seems to have revealed only one thing: One person's activism is another's adherence to constitutional principle. And to my ear, a progressive jurist sounds far more desirable than a regressive one." -- Thurgood Marshall, Jr., son of the former Justice, in an op-ed piece in the Kaplan Daily, discussing the Kagan confirmation hearings.
Marshall also states that he believes that the spectacle of Rethug Senators disparaging his father's work goes back to his role in his Brown v. Board of Education victory for school desegregation. Southern Rethugs and their right wing brethren have never gotten over their defeats during that era.
