It depends. I have supported conservative nominees when I felt the court was out of balance.
The bottom line is this: The Supreme Court should not be left or right. That said....whenever the court is out of balance, then that balance needs to be restored.
I don't mind a liberal being appointed so long as they out their liberalism on the shelf and make rulings apart from their ideology and according to what the law and Constitution say.
I love all these far righties who think they're now experts on SCOTUS history and qualifications because they can repeat the talking points of the hour from Fox or talk radio.
- 1981 Princeton University, summa cum laude
- editorial chair of the Daily Princetonian.
- received Princeton's Daniel M. Sachs Memorial Scholarship, one of the highest general awards conferred by the university
- earned an M.Phil degree from Oxford University
- magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School
- Supervisory Editor of the Harvard Law Review.
Law clerk for Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Dean of Harvard Law School and Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law at Harvard University.
Professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School.
Anybody who really thinks she is not qualified to be nominated and given strong consideration is an idiot--or lives in some backwoods pocket of this country that doesn't understand what things like Harvard Law School mean in the real world.
Lack of intellectual rigor and sub-par credentials are what made Harriet Miers a total joke of a nomination.
It's the name calling and the insults that make your posts seem so intelligent and insightful. :roll:
for me, it is the factual presentation
whatever blows your skirt up, i guess
That might be true, except for the fact that GWB tilted the court to the hard right by appointing right-wing activist judges (Roberts and Alito). We need to restore balance to the court. Kagan doesn't restore that balance. We need a true liberal.
Ya ever notice....how some of the 'Libertarians' sound and act like Republicans?
Just sayin'.
LINO= Libertarian in name only
FLIBS
The doctrine of original intent rests on a set of implicit assumptions about the framers as a breed apart, momentarily allowed access to a set of timeless and transcendent truths. You don't have to believe that tongues of fire appeared over their heads during the debates. But the doctrine requires you to believe that the "miracle at Philadelphia" was a uniquely omniscient occasion when 55 mere mortals were permitted a glimpse of the eternal verities and then embalmed their insights in the document.
Any professional historian proposing such an interpretation today would be laughed off the stage. That four sitting justices on the Supreme Court -- Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts and Samuel Alito -- claim to believe in it, or some version of it, is truly strange. We might call it the Immaculate Conception theory of jurisprudence. Even more disconcerting is the fact that the very justices most disposed toward wrapping their opinions in the protective armor of original intent have consistently voted in support of the conservative political agenda championed by the Republican Party.
Joseph J. Ellis - Immaculate misconception and the Supreme Court
If original intent is a misnomer, we wouldn't need a constitution at all. :shrug:
I'm guessing at how quickly you responded to my post means that you did not read the entire article, unless you're an amazing speed reader.
Factual is she has no judicial experience. We don't even know where she stands. This has potential for a highly activist judge. to which you all would love that. But it's repugnant to the US Constitution.....
Blow that up your skirt, jack.impdaddy:
He nominated two men who uphold The Constitution.
They don't go on fishing expeditions for foreign law, they don't have a social agenda other than upholding the law of the land, The Constitution.
Men who do that, and support such behavior tend to be Republicans.
What does that say about Lib's and their judicial activism?
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You ever notice how the far left is incapable of seeing their messiah criticized by anyone and will smear them mercilessly in attempt to cloud the issue?
Lame and pathetic. Some people just don't like your man-crush; get over it.
...smear them mercilessly in attempt to cloud the issue?
Far left? Hardly. Welcome to DP, BTW...
Fact-based criticisms about specific policies, I got no problem with...
Regurgitating mindless talking points is what we mostly see from the far-righties around here...
My point was how quickly some Libertarians have taken to adopting GOP partisan positions...and the sometimes thin talking points that go along with those positions.
I'm wondering if they, the Libertarians, will be happy with any President.
You have a man-crush on Obama, that's nice, but that doesn't mean a common criticism between libertarians and Republicans is a "mindless talking point".
Regurgitating mindless talking points is what we mostly see from the far-righties around here...
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You've mistaken my distain for partisan hackery for a 'crush'.
And most of the hyper-partisan posts that appeared in this thread prior to us really knowing anything about the nominee are mindless because it takes no thought or real effort to copy/paste them from Drudge or whatever blog the sheep currently get their 'news' from...
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You've mistaken my distain for partisan hackery for a 'crush'.
And most of the hyper-partisan posts that appeared in this thread prior to us really knowing anything about the nominee are mindless because it takes no thought or real effort to copy/paste them from Drudge or whatever blog the sheep currently get their 'news' from...
You are the epitome of what you say you are against. You've got Alinsky down to an art, just like your poster pin-up boy.
You and Obama remind me of my 12-year-old daughter and Justin Bieber. Except she doesn't keep the crusty beach towel under her bed.
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