If Samuel Alito decides to call it quits this summer – and there are good reasons for him to do so that have nothing to do with his stellar performance as a justice on the US Supreme Court – last week’s dissent in one of the most appalling court decisions in recent memory – which is saying something – should shoot Judge Lawrence Van Dyke to the top of President Trump’s SCOTUS shortlist. We need a straight shooter. We need a fearless fighter. We need someone who’s willing to call a… well… let me explain.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which I had the dubious pleasure of arguing in front of back when I was still doing law, recently chose to refuse to review a decision that allowed Washington state to essentially force young girls – and I mean, like thirteen years old – to come face-to-face with naked perverts who get off on exposing themselves to women and children.

The court didn’t put it that way, of course. The courts rarely put things forthrightly when they do something that seems like madness to normal people, but which leftist ideology demands. Instead, they deflect and distract, employ euphemisms and clichés, and ignore precedent and common sense to avoid actually describing the reality of what their decisions mean.

Well, not Judge Van Dyke. Not by a long shot.

Let’s take a look at his opening salvo in dissent in Olympus Spa v. Armstrong. Caution – it’s a little bit vulgar, but that’s intentional, and I’ve truncated the key word at issue to keep in line with Townhall‘s family-friendly focus.

This is a case about swinging d***s. The Christian owners of Olympus Spa—a traditional Korean, women-only, nude spa—understandably don’t want them in their spa. Their female employees and female clients don’t want them in their spa either. But Washington State insists on them. And now so does the Ninth Circuit.You may think that swinging d***s shouldn’t appear in a judicial opinion. You’re not wrong. But as much as you might understandably be shocked and displeased to merely encounter that phrase in this opinion, I hope we all can agree that it is far more jarring for the unsuspecting and exposed women at Olympus Spa—some as young as thirteen—to be visually assaulted by the real thing.Sometimes, it feels like the supposed adults in the room have collectively lost their minds. Woke regulators and complicit judges seem entirely willing, even eager, to ignore the consequences that their Frankenstein social experiments impose on real women and young girls.

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