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Fox. Our system of government has three distinct co-equal branches, the executive, the legislative, and the judicial branch.

We hear quite a lot from the executive branch, whether it be governors,

presidents, prosecutors, cops. We hear quite a bit from legislative branch,

whether it's state house members or senators or the women and men in Congress. In fact, scarcely a day goes by that we do not have access

to what someone in two of our three branches thinks. We do not hear nearly as often from the judicial branch.

Every so often there will be a confirmation to hearing, but even those are usually somewhat

muted because the nominee is just a different kind of person but mainly because the job is different.

And yes, it is true. Certain judges do speak in a sense through the opinions they author,

but let's be honest, when is the last time you read an opinion from the US Supreme Court or a circuit court of appeals or even your own State Supreme Court.

We see headlines or articles about those opinions,

oftentimes written by people who could not find the law school

with one of their navigation apps or a team of

bloodhounds. We read the short articles about long court opinions and

those articles are usually written by reporters or journalists who, I mean, quite frankly, oftentimes have no idea what they're talking about and they find it vexing that any judge or justice could possibly take a legal position different from his or her own political opinions or worse yet that maybe the judge or justice doesn't even have political opinions.

So that's a long way of saying oftentimes those articles written about court opinions

do more damage than they do good.

And yet we rarely go back and read the actual opinion. I mean again if we're

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