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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (6529)4/15/2005 11:18:24 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
The Democrats’ Myth Machine

The QandO Blog
Posted by: Dale Franks
Friday, April 15, 2005

Wendy Long punctures the myth-making the Democratic Partry is trying to use to oppose the president's judicial nominations to the appeals courts.

washtimes.com

The Democrats' have only one goal: to prevent conservative or originalist judges from getting onto the appeals courts. They could care less what judges do at the trial level, but they are dead set against having an appellate judiciary that will refrain from legislating from the bench. Unless, of course, the legislating is of a type that they like.

By the way, I can think of nothing that shows how inordinately powerful the judiciary has become than the current controversy over judicial nominations. This is yet another result of judicial activism. If judges have the power to act as an unelected, untouchable legislature, then every judicial confirmation becomes a knock-down, drag-out political fight.

This is not healthy for our republic. It reduces the "rule of law" to nothing more than a partisan calculation, and turns justice into a crap shoot that's largely determined by the ideology of the judge you get when you go to trial or file an appeal. It makes a mockery of the idea of impartial justice.

We're supposed to have political fights in the legislature, not in the courts. But, when our actual rulers are robed lawyers who sit for life, selecting them becomes, as it has, a nasty political catfight. The controvery over judges should tell us something very important—and frightening—about our system of government.

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