Arc
12-21-2004, 08:01 PM
Getting ready folks! A national political battle of hearts and minds is just below the horizon. Chief Justice William Rehnquist will soon be gone and the fight for his replacement has already begun in earnest.
Oddsmakers are betting Bush is going to nominate Associate Justice Antonin Scalia as the new CJ. Liberals everywhere and the Democrats in the Senate are not happy.
Battle lines will be drawn strictly along partisan and social political lines. The sole issue that drives the train of support or opposition will be Scalia’s Constitutional and political perspective as demonstrated by his nearly twenty years of decisions as an Associate Justice at SCOTUS.
Oh, there will be cries of conflict of interest, judicial temperament, constitutional philosophy, and the like. And there is actually going to be some meritorious basis for those allegations. But that will still be a smoke screen. Individuals and political organizations like the worthless ABA and the controversial ACLU will use those as the excuse for attack. But really it will all be about opposing factions who each want a guy who will rule their way and promote their political agenda by the way they vote. That applies to both sides of the fence. The Republicans and conservatives want Scalia because he is “their guy.”
Before it is lost in the passion of battle later on I will leave you with this:
The CJ has the same number of “votes” as everyone else on the court. All of the decisions will still be decided by a nine “vote” or full court distribution.
But what the heck! If the CJ position is just political position and a ego-trip, why shouldn’t the person nominated be part of a political dog and pony show masquerading as “advise and consent?”
More later, if Scalia is nominated!
Here is MSNBC’s “slant” (figuratively, literally, and pun intended) view of the gathering storm.
LINK! (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6738579/)
Oddsmakers are betting Bush is going to nominate Associate Justice Antonin Scalia as the new CJ. Liberals everywhere and the Democrats in the Senate are not happy.
Battle lines will be drawn strictly along partisan and social political lines. The sole issue that drives the train of support or opposition will be Scalia’s Constitutional and political perspective as demonstrated by his nearly twenty years of decisions as an Associate Justice at SCOTUS.
Oh, there will be cries of conflict of interest, judicial temperament, constitutional philosophy, and the like. And there is actually going to be some meritorious basis for those allegations. But that will still be a smoke screen. Individuals and political organizations like the worthless ABA and the controversial ACLU will use those as the excuse for attack. But really it will all be about opposing factions who each want a guy who will rule their way and promote their political agenda by the way they vote. That applies to both sides of the fence. The Republicans and conservatives want Scalia because he is “their guy.”
Before it is lost in the passion of battle later on I will leave you with this:
The CJ has the same number of “votes” as everyone else on the court. All of the decisions will still be decided by a nine “vote” or full court distribution.
But what the heck! If the CJ position is just political position and a ego-trip, why shouldn’t the person nominated be part of a political dog and pony show masquerading as “advise and consent?”
More later, if Scalia is nominated!
Here is MSNBC’s “slant” (figuratively, literally, and pun intended) view of the gathering storm.
LINK! (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6738579/)