Comments on: Stacking the Courts with Right Wing Nutjobs

By: Dean Landsman / The blog: DeanLand

Dean Landsman / The blog: DeanLand — Sun, 21 May 2006 23:43:07 +0000

To Blog or Not To Blog...

To Blog or Not To Blog Can it really be six weeks since the last post?...

By: legion

legion — Thu, 18 May 2006 20:03:33 +0000

The question is _not_ the judge's politics. The question is how well the judge can be trusted to keep his/her own views from overriding proper decisions. That's a major reason (for example) that I (and others) opposed the Meiers nomination - given her career path & past writings, she did not seem likely to be either neutral or independent.

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Thu, 18 May 2006 19:16:54 +0000

Sounding the same old gong, I don't think there's any intrinsic problem with a common law system but I do think there's a serious problem with elitism. It's elitism, for example, when judicial decisions look contrary to the plain language of the Constitution i.e. non-lawyers wouldn't understand it because we're not familiar with the case law and the scholarship. That kind of elitism looks pretty bipartisan in the legal profession to me at this point.

By: Bithead

Bithead — Thu, 18 May 2006 17:43:25 +0000

What you need to understand, however, is anyone to the right of Castro qualifies as a 'right wing nut job' to these morons.