Politicized Court

Re “We Politicized the Court; We Can Redeem It,” Column Right, Oct. 30:

Roger Pilon says the problem of the politicized Supreme Court began with the Progressives (1900-1916). He should have gone back one more historical period and looked at the business and political ethics of the late 1800s. In that period, industrial and commercial wealth was used to buy control of much of American political (and judicial) life. We had a form of plutocracy. To defend democracy, there had to be Progressive governmental interventions.

As to politicizing, Pilon knows, as did his friend Cato, that life itself is political. The struggle-for-power type of analysis fits much of what we do.

PORTER EWING, Van Nuys