Late history professor from UNL, JM Sosin, exposed the false history activist judges have used to justify their existence in his book "The Aristocracy of the Long Robe." From the Choice review: “Sosin has written a perplexing book. ..On the basis of a survey of English practice and American Colonial case law and legal controversies, the author engages in a sometimes heated complaint against the emergence of a `Transcendently(sic) Omnipotent' Court' in opposition to the historical evidence that no precedent for such a Court can be found in English or Colonial American practice.