Kagan wasn't a judge either.
Kagan wasn't a judge either.
Forever Fredi
Pubs need to think long and hard about what they want to do here. It might be best for them in the long run to confirm a reasonable Obama appointee.
thank you weso1!
I don't think she's a liberal firebrand either, but the Right has been making noise since Obama was first elected with the meme that he doesn't care about white people and if Obama nominates Lynch in the middle of a campaign, it just gives knuckleheads like Cruz more fodder for their ill-conceived rhetoric and just juices up an already toxic political environment.
Like him or not, I think Obama (and I will say this about W. as well) is a principled guy and it will be interesting to see what he does here. We'll see if he cares about macro-political calculations or wants to make a statement consistent with his beliefs.
One of her areas of expertise was law as it relates to state and federal constitions. I thought both of Obama's appointees were reasonably qualified. This is just for me personally, but I believe any supreme court nominee should have a strong understanding of the consitution. How they interpret it is what it is, but I want someone who has studied it and written papers on it or argued cases using it, etc.
I think it's a reasonable position considering the importance of the job and the description of the job.
thank you weso1!
57Brave (02-15-2016), BedellBrave (02-15-2016), Runnin (02-15-2016)
I think so too. Especially if they've actually got a chance to win the election. Because, I'd anticipate at least one slot to open up in the next year or so anyway. Also, I'd think Kennedy would see his role being somewhat different if the court lurches to the left too quickly.
Less reputable people say and do all manner of things - all across the spectrum.
Next judge will have to be African American. Fauxcohontas is too white and too old.
57Brave (02-16-2016)
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jpx7 (02-16-2016)
My issues with Scalia actually have a lot less to do with his leanings on the US political spectrum and a lot more to do with his fundamental hermeneutics. Even if he had used the same methods of text-interpretation to argue progressive ends, I'd have disputed the methods (even if I approved the ends). I just don't condone treating documents as he did: monolithic, moribund, with no openness to new meanings.
That said, your note re Ginsburg does illustrate that we shouldn't treat people monolithically, either. He was someone with whom a staunch ideological opposite could sit down to an opera—and, given the gulf between their interpretive strategies, I would've loved to listen to them argue the finer points of Verdi.
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
50PoundHead (02-17-2016), Runnin (02-16-2016)
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I think I'm somewhere in between you and he on the hermeneutical issue. I do think we must seriously seek to understand a document in it's historical context (it can't be a total wax nose or it's nonsense - a problem I see with pomo hermeneutics) yet there can be (should be?) applications to contemporary issues or we do just have a museum. Anyhoo...
Or Puccini (after all, he can lay down a tune). Just no Wagner. :-)
Great read on when Scalia sided with the liberals. Link
I can't wait to hear Obamas eulogy at Scalias funeral on Sunday.
Good call.
POTOS not even attending.