VIEWPOINT | Image management would behoove Supreme Court justices

David Adler, The Alturas Institute

The defining characteristic of the American experience is the premise of law as a check on governmental power. Challenged throughout our history and subjected to stresses and strains inflicted by indifference, partisanship and political affiliations that prefer the ends-justify-the-means philosophy, the premise remains an ideal, though its fibers are frayed.

The institution that most nearly embodies this ideal is the U.S. Supreme Court, the history of which is the story of how a few men and women, when at their best, have exercised their authority to uphold the rule of law in American life.

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