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MartiniMan
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Supreme Court Nominee
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5/13/2010 3:15:58 PM
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I frankly don't think her being confirmed is going to change the balance of the court. She is replacing a consistently "liberal" vote on the court with what I am sure will be a consistently "liberal" vote.
I do find all this posturing of her as some sort of centrist or more conservative than you would have expected or whatever to be comical. That view is based on what, she has conservative friends?!?!? She has almost no record by which to examine her judicial philosophy. She is wildly unpublished for a SCOTUS nominee, she has never been a judge, etc. What record does exist and her actions at Harvard in my view places her squarely in the liberal category. I frankly believe she was chosen by the president for a couple of key reasons: 1) she is a fellow traveler with him vis-a-vis an activist court; and 2) she has no record upon which to oppose her other than the usual ancillary statements and writings that confirm her to be a leftist.
Her sexual orientation is only relevant is she believes that the role of the court is to create new rights applicable to the gay community regardless of the constitutional merits. Otherwise who cares. And I think the picture in the WSJ being portrayed as an implication that she is a lesbian is some sort of joke.
I do find the composition of the court vis-a-vis Catholics and Jews and the incredible bias toward ivy league schools Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. to be much more interesting. I don't really have any specific comment other than to say I don't care much about their religion but I would love to see a member of the court come from somewhere other than that pedigree. But lets face it, for most of our adult lives most of our Presidents have been ivy league graduates themselves (except Reagan and Carter). Both Bush's, Clinton and Obama are ivy league grads and they are predisposed to pick from those schools. I need to get in there so we can have a justice from the University of Dayton. That would be interesting.
Final thought on her lack of judicial experience. The only reason that concerns me is just an inability to examine her true temperament and how she views the role of the courts in the interpretation of laws as opposed to legislation from the bench. William Renquist likewise had no prior judicial experience and from my worldview was a great Chief Justice. So I am not going to oppose her on that issue. She will be confirmed unless the administration did not do their homework and there is some smoking gun bombshell that gets uncovered, like she voted for Reagan twice or Roe v Wade must be overturned or worse yet, she drives and SUV.....absent that she is a shoo-in (after the usual posturing and red meat throwing to score political points).
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