Although I don’t disagree with Howard’s bottom line, the way he gets there and his “solutions” are so simplistic and full of references that only serve to support his conservative ideological perspective. Example: He says the Constitution has worked well for 200+ years. Wrong. The document has been amended multiple times and, on top of that, interpreted by the federal courts. So, his remark about it working well, as if it’s a static document, is disingenuous. Another comment that I thought really gave insight into Howard’s own values and ideology was the reference to the ’60s as the period in which we discovered bad values and that ultimately, the lesson of the ’60s for the law is that no one is allowed to have bad values anymore. His conservative message is quite clear: Liberals and minorities are to blame for this mess by using the legal system to vindicate their rights because the political process failed them. Silly me: I thought that was why we had a legal system.