He Who Acts Against His Conscience Always Sins — Aquinas

Sometimes our courts are our conscience. We should examine our consciences, and we should let our consciences examine us.

Our news programs have never been so filled with accounts of how lawyers are arguing, and judges are judging, the right and wrong of particular cases—applications of practical wisdom, or phronesis, which are quite intriguing and often very important. These are great opportunities to explore the content and the context of the state of our Union.

Exhibit A,, your honor: The recent US Supreme Court decision on affirmative action. We owe it to ourselves to ponder this subject. As a good start, read the concurrence by Justice Clarence Thomas and the dissent by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The entire decision is found here.

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