The Importance of Civility in the Supreme Court

A Texas judge ordered that three Southwest Airlines lawyers attend eight hours of religious liberty training this month as part of the sanctions. David Bianculli: This raises a broader question, is our judges issuing diversity training sanctions, a good idea? He asks whether judges are picking organizations that are certainly seen as being on the ends of the ideological spectrum and they're unquestionably conservative. The Southern Poverty Law Center designated ADF a hate group or calling them extremist doesn't actually matter to me in this case; I'm just talking about their ideology.