The “show me the money!” generation

I’m so old that I remember when judges were not in it for the big bucks. They were intellectually aloof, like college professors happily ensconced in their academic villages.  They were at ease with a life of the mind. The gentile poverty that comes with valuing ideas over bottles of rare wine was not considered a curse, but a comfort.   They were above the money grubbing masses.

Alito and Thomas have spoken on behalf of a new breed of supreme court justice. It is a generation of judges that look at conflicts of interest and say, “Fuck it. Show me the money.”