McCain's Court: Change We Don't Need

[Wetzelbill]

McCain's Court: Change We Don't Need
Friday 12 September 2008
by: Cass R. Sunstein, The Washington Independent


There has been much debate about whether Sen. John McCain is a candidate of change. But in one area, McCain is unquestionably a reformer. He would almost certainly make fundamental changes in the direction of the U.S. Supreme Court.

McCain has said that, should he be president, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito "would serve as the model for my own nominees." He regularly attacks what he calls "activist judging," and he described a recent ruling vindicating the right to habeas corpus as "one of the worst decisions in the history of this country." McCain has repeatedly said that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided and should be overruled.

If McCain is elected, change would clearly be coming to the U.S. Supreme Court. And in constitutional law, the Republican presidential nominee is anything but conservative. Once skeptical of the idea that the court should overrule Roe v. Wade, he now invokes the clichés and code words of the extreme right. His votes have matched his words, for he has been a proud and enthusiastic supporter of President George W. Bush's most extreme appointees to the courts of appeals.

Recently McCain complained of "the common and systematic abuse of our federal courts by the people we entrust with judicial power. For decades now, some federal judges have taken it upon themselves to pronounce and rule on matters that were never intended to be heard in courts or decided by judges."

http://www.truthout.org/article/mccains-court-change-we-dont-need

[southerncrone]

1. But the "REALLY SCARY" possibility is that Palin

replaces McSame as Prez!

Just think about who her SC choices would be! Monica Goodling? Other Liberty or Regent grads w/fake law degrees?

I shudder to think........ :scared: