What if an Orangutan is Driving the Train

This is one of the great quotes in US Supreme Court history.

ABC News reports

The Court's senior conservative suggested that some members of the Court over the years have blindly followed prior judgments, comparing them to passengers on a train.

"We never go to the front see who's driving the train, where is it going. And you could go up there in the engine room, find it's an orangutan driving the train, but you want to follow that just because it's a train," Thomas said.

Sometimes we need an unreconstructed conservate to call a spade a spade.