Andrew Sullivan quotes Churchill, always a worthwhile thing to do, on the interesting proposition that an entirely partisan politicized public agency is better than a nonpartisan politicized public agency. That makes sense, once you think about it. And it implies that if we are to have politicized judges, we should not have independent ones. Here's the quote:

CHURCHILL ON THE BBC: "These well-meaning gentlemen of the British Broadcasting Corporation have absolutely no qualifications and no claim to represent British public opinion. They have no right to say that they voice the opinions of English or British people whatever. If anyone can do that it is His Majesty's government; and there may be two opinions about that. It would be far better to have sharply contrasted views in succession, in alteration, than to have this copious stream of pontifical, anonymous mugwumpery with which we have been dosed for so long." - from a speech in the House of Commons, February 22, 1933.

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