Letter: It's insulting to call justices 'rogues'

I was shocked and very disappointed in your recent editorial's description of the majority of Supreme Court members who voted down Roe v. Wade. You called them "rogue justices with little or no respect for pplong-held legal precedent."

Shame on you, Daily Herald. At present, the Supreme Court represents the last bastion against executive/ bureaucratic overreach and a moribund legislative body.

You may (and from your words you apparently do) disagree with the court's decision but that does not excuse your distorted depiction of Supreme Court justices as 'rogues'. They are honorable men and women chosen after open debate regarding their qualifications, judicial experience and views on constitutional law.

The anti-Roe v. Wade decision does not outlaw abortion. You know that. What it does is reverse a precedent the majority believe had no constitutional foundation. It says that the Supreme Court is not infallible and, in the case of Roe v. Wade that it made an error. One could argue the original Roe v. Wade decision was made by a group of "rogue justices," but the current decision does not reflect a disregard for all precedents.

At what seems to be a very fragile time in our republic, i ask the Daily Herald to apologize for its unfortunate choice of words. Unless you truly believe that the Supreme Court's members are rogues.

Stephen J. Gohmann

Huntley