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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Dale Baker who wrote (9842)1/26/2006 11:16:47 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (3) of 541672
 
With Republican control of Congress going nowhere for the conservative agenda and the White House in doubt by 2009, the SC was the only game in town for the hardcore right.

I know you don't mean to frame it this way, Dale, but it could be read that the far right is only now taking SC nominations seriously. Because they think they will lose majorities in the House and Senate and because they may lose the presidency in 08.

But my reading is that they've considered the SC the crown jewel for a very long time. I became aware of its public incarnation with the Bork nomination; then their anger at Bush, the father, for the Souter nomination; and their growing anger at Kennedy (and to some extent, O'Connor) as heretics (you could read it that way).

Moreover, the strategy, for some time, at least since the Thomas nomination, seems to be to put forward candidates who reflect only the very far right of the Rep party and who are young enough to be on the court for a long time.
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