All right, point taken. But I still think a strong word is called for, and I don't have a ready alternative. Maybe "renegade", the term Scalia used for the Ea

All right, point taken. But I still think a strong word is called for, and I don't have a ready alternative. Maybe "renegade", the term Scalia used for the Eastern District of Texas, will do. "Ideological" doesn't quite seem strong enough to me, though it's getting there.