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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: calgal who wrote (146054)5/16/2001 11:42:17 PM
From: ThirdEye  Read Replies (3) of 769670
 
The overriding consideration for a judge, notes former Attorney General Edwin Meese, is for that judge to have "evenly applied the law, and not substituted the judge's own ideas.''

That's rich. Let's nominate judges who don't have any of their own ideas. That way, we can eliminate creativity entirely from the interpretive process. Rely completely on precedent and "original intent."

Yes, indeed. Judges with their own ideas CAN be dangerous. Take the current Court, for example. In Bush v Gore, the idea of the majority was to render an opinion that applied ONLY for that case, something no judge in the entire history of the federal courts had ever done before. How creative! Oops!
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