YOU BELONG TO THE STATE: “I believe in forced labor.” Sotomayor Urges Mandatory Pro Bono for All Lawyers. On Facebook, David Bernstein asks: “Is there some judicial ethics code that would prevent Justice Sotomayor from, say, volunteering at a domestic violence clinic one afternoon a week? If not, why doesn’t she?”

If I were a member of Congress, I’d introduce a bill requiring Supreme Court Justices to spend one week a year at manual labor, to keep them in touch with the masses.