I don't know about other people, but I watch TV for entertainment, not to get another liberal lecture. I guess that's why I don't watch much regular television.
David Kelley, the creator of Boston Legal (another show I've never watched) decided it was time to rip into the Supreme Court because he doesn't like the fact they won't read shit into the Constitution anymore.
"We went right after them," Kelley acknowledges, asserting that the Supreme Court does not deserve the "hands-off treatment" it usually gets in the media and in political discourse.
The anti-Roberts Court screed, improbably enough, is delivered to the justices to their faces during the episode titled "The Court Supreme." Co-star James Spader, who plays Boston lawyer Alan Shore, lights into the Court as he argues before look-alike justices on behalf of a Louisiana child rapist facing the death penalty. The episode aired just six days after the real Court heard arguments in Kennedy v. Louisiana, an actual child rape/death penalty case.
A sample of the rhetoric: Shore attacks the "overtly and shamelessly pro-business" Court, and takes a sharp detour from the rape case to slam Justice Antonin Scalia for his seemingly likely support for Exxon Mobil in the case -- also argued recently -- involving punitive damages awarded after the Exxon Valdez oil spill. "Nineteen years after the Valdez oil spill and the plaintiffs are still waiting to be fully compensated," Shore says.
When the Scalia character interjects sharply, "You are getting so far off point," Shore shoots back: "My point is, who are you people? You've transformed this court from being a governmental branch devoted to civil rights and liberties into a protector of discrimination, a guardian of government, a slave to monied interests and big business and today, hallelujah, you seek to kill a mentally disabled man."
The law.com story takes a light-hearted angle at this liberal claptrap, rather than pointing out its insulting nature. I question whether liberals like Kelley would approve of television shows that had conservatives lecturing Warren Burger on his despicable court's ruling in Roe v. Wade. I guess Shore wouldn't have had a problem with any of that, though.
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