The criminal–justice system is dominated by graduates of elite American law schools who overwhelmingly identify as political progressives.

No small thanks to the Federalist Society, constitutional conservatives who care deeply about civil rights and equal protection under the law are also well represented.

The notion that these groups, that our profession, would abide a justice system that is racist to its core insults the intelligence of all of us — of every fair-minded American.

Yet, that notion is the premise for the progressive project of “transformational change.”

The political nature of the crusade is blatant. It fits a familiar pattern:

Some tragic loss of life occurs in a racially charged incident involving the police and a suspect. It is often not apparent that any civil–rights violation occurred. Instead, we are expected to infer a constitutional travesty based on nothing other than the race of the suspect. And that’s even if, as is often the case, the race of at least some of the police is the same as the race of the suspect.