With a stalled economy and ongoing attacks against U.S. troops, judicial appointments seemingly lack the immediacy and scope to register among Americans’ concerns this election season. But relegating the president’s power to make lifetime appointments to the lower tiers of political consideration sets dangerous precedent—and could impact the rights of ordinary citizens for decades to come. Federal judges play a critical… return to article
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Reader Comments (4)Page 1 of 1 pagesAs your article clearly indicates this is one of the greatest dangers of the Bush presidency. The support of his agenda in the US court system would destroy all civil and social progress achieved over the past 100 years
Posted by Al Moe on Feb 18, 2004 at 3:40 AM Rather than being extremists, George Bush’s appointees all carry the highest recommendations of other lawyers and the ABA. The “Borking” of a whole slew of judicial nominees does not make it right, nor are all the lies true because you say them often enough. It is the Democrats and liberals who are trying to dictate judicial philosophy. We need judges who think for themselves not one’s that subscribe to the liberal agenda and think they can legislate from the bench. Why do you want to cut off debate?
Posted by Philip M Kober, JD, MD, PhD on Feb 18, 2004 at 11:40 PM “ideological extremist who have shown a willingness to rewrite statues, distort precedent, and misrepresent facts to justify positions against many of our treasured rights and protections.”
Wait a minute - isn’t this the complaint, exactly identical to the complaint, of the right-wing? Isn’t this what ‘liberal’ judges are alleged to do?
Hasn’t “all civil and social progress achieved over the past 100 years” in the courts been achieved by judges who ‘rewrote statutes, distorted precedent, and held their own positions against many time honored traditions?’
Posted by Nus on Feb 18, 2004 at 11:41 PM Nan Aron will be my guest on Friday Feb 27 to talk about this….
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