“No compact among men … can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.”
– George Washington, draft of first Inaugural Address, 1789
Judges Evaluated – Make Your Decisions
This web site has evaluated California judges on two important criteria. First, is this judge a judicial activist or a strict constructionist, based on a sliding scale of 1 = pure judicial activist and 10 = pure strict constructionist. The second, on a similar scale, evaluates their qualifications for the office. You can see the analysis here: