{"id":6121,"date":"2016-10-21T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T05:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/10\/21\/leviticus-1915-the-lord-versus-hillary\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T05:00:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T05:00:02","slug":"leviticus-1915-the-lord-versus-hillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/10\/21\/leviticus-1915-the-lord-versus-hillary\/","title":{"rendered":"Leviticus 19:15:  The Lord versus Hillary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">\u201cYou shall not do injustice in judgment; you shall not show partiality to the powerless; you shall not give preference to the powerful; you shall judge your fellow citizen with justice.&quot; &#0160;Alternate translations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/verse\/en\/Leviticus%2019:15\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">In the third and final presidential debate, Hillary Clinton said the following about Supreme Court &#0160;nominations. &#0160;&quot;And the kind of people that I would be looking to nominate to the court would be in the great tradition of standing up to the powerful, standing on behalf of our rights as Americans.&quot;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">This is the sort of leftist claptrap according to which the judiciary assumes &#0160;legislative functions and the Constitution is a <em>tabula rasa<\/em> on which anything can be written. &#0160;The purpose of the court is not to stand up to the powerful or take the side of the powerless, but to apply the law and administer justice. &#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">There must be no &#0160;&quot;partiality to the powerless.&quot; &#0160;Might does not make right. &#0160;But neither does lack of might.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">(Credit where credit is due: &#0160;I am riffing on a comment I heard Dennis Prager make yesterday.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2016\/03\/leftists-and-underdogs.html\">Leftists and Underdogs<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2010\/04\/weakness-does-not-justify.html\">Weakness Does Not Justify<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou shall not do injustice in judgment; you shall not show partiality to the powerless; you shall not give preference to the powerful; you shall judge your fellow citizen with justice.&quot; &#0160;Alternate translations here. In the third and final presidential debate, Hillary Clinton said the following about Supreme Court &#0160;nominations. &#0160;&quot;And the kind of people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/10\/21\/leviticus-1915-the-lord-versus-hillary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leviticus 19:15:  The Lord versus Hillary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574,56,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-testament","category-politics","category-u-s-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}