With the recent Judge Joe Battaillon decision (which denied the will of 70% of Nebraska voters who voted to amend the state Constitution to protect marriage) and then the latest cave-in by the Republicans in the U.S. Senate on the judicial nominee issue, I couldn't help but reflect on this passage from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic historical novel, The White Company:
A minute later the bailiff and four of his men rode past him on their journey back to Southampton, the other two having been chosen as grave-diggers. As they passed Alleyne saw that one of the men was wiping his sword-blade upon the mane of his horse. A deadly sickness came over him at the sight, and sitting down by the wayside he burst out weeping, with his nerves all in a jangle. It was a terrible world thought he, and it was hard to know which were the most to be dreaded, the knaves or the men of the law.
