Idiot of the moment

Activists Gear Up For Nominee Fight

Activists Gear Up For Nominee Fight

It's started....
"A Republican planning document provided to The Washington Post described the need to avoid disclosing the nominees "personal political views or legal thinking on any issue."

Democrats, by contrast, prepared a campaign to extend the process and portray anyone Bush selects as outside the mainstream. The liberal People for the American Way moved to claim O'Connor's mantle with a new television commercial that flashes her image and demands that Bush pick someone in her pragmatic tradition who "protects our fundamental rights and freedoms" or risk dividing the country."

We should pick our judges based on their legal acumen and legal philosophy. Not on their personal politics. Some judges will decide cases first and justify them second but many if not most will not. Unfortunately most of these judges do not endear themselves to either the electorate or to the politicians that appoint them.

I wish we could have a blind process (isn't justice blind anyway?) whereby legal extracts are provided describing decisions and politics could be left out of the entire process. Judges are supposed to be a check on the political process not a part of them.

posted by KingoftheIdiots @ 8:29 AM