The State Can Never Be Wrong

Lew: The Supreme Court decision to which you refer is perfectly understandable . . . at least to a statist. Because the state is an entity that enjoys a monopoly on the use of violence, it can never make a fundamental error needful of being corrected. Who is to do the correction? Whoever, or whatever, is to be the remedial force would become, by definition, the new monopolist. Would its decisions likewise be subject to review by an even higher violence monopolist, ad infinitum? Is it really a matter of “turtles all the way down?” The Supreme Court is just updating … Continue reading The State Can Never Be Wrong