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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: calgal who wrote (146054)	5/16/2001 11:08:42 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 769670

the Constitution as written There is no way the founding fathers knew all that would happen. They were men, not Gods. Of couse the constitution has be be interpreted in it's day. There are some who would try to blame a very poor decision on the founding fathers. TP

To: calgal who wrote (146054)	5/16/2001 11:42:17 PM
From: ThirdEye	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to 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!