Politics & Power Quote by Jay Alan Sekulow

The line lands like a candid aside from someone used to thinking in multi-decade time horizons: elections are temporary, courts are infrastructure. Sekulow frames judicial appointments not as stewardship but as a campaign with a “strategy,” a pipeline, and a bottleneck. The phrase “young, aggressive judges” does a lot of quiet work. “Young” is less about vitality than durability: a way to lock in legal outcomes long after a presidency ends. “Aggressive” signals temperament and method, hinting at jurists willing to move law rather than merely interpret it, to test boundaries, to read precedent with ambition. It’s a values claim disguised as personnel talk.

The subtext is power’s favorite genre: process. By emphasizing “getting them through,” Sekulow shifts attention from the public-facing merits of nominees to the machinery of confirmation, normalizing the idea that legitimacy is procedural rather than persuasive. The challenge isn’t whether these judges reflect a broad constitutional consensus; it’s whether the political system can be made to seat them fast enough.

Contextually, this is the conservative legal movement’s playbook stated without euphemism: prioritize the judiciary as the most reliable lever for policy when legislatures stall and public opinion fluctuates. The quote also carries an implicit critique of opponents as obstructive, casting resistance as mere friction in the gears rather than a substantive disagreement about the direction of the law. It’s transactional language that reveals the real battleground: not arguments in court, but who gets to decide what counts as an argument in the first place.