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Politics : The Supreme Court, All Right or All Wrong? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (1574)	3/10/2006 12:42:02 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3029

"As a general matter, it's far too early to say how the Bush appointees will change the judiciary. Come back in a year or two-or 20. But it's not too early to predict, given the group's Federalist flavor. The Federalist Society, which began 21 years ago as a port of lonely hearts for beleaguered conservative law students in predominantly liberal law schools, has evolved into not only a power broker in Republican circles-its members honeycomb the Bush administration-but also a sort of judicial hatchery, spawning and cultivating reliably conservative judges and their reliably conservative law clerks the way state-of-the-art fish farms produce salmon, leaving little to the maddening caprices of nature. Republicans can now insist, with a straight face, that they never ask a nominee his or her views on hot-button issues; they don't have to. George W. Bush will never make the mistake of appointing a surprisingly liberal justice such as David Souter, the way his father did; such mega-mutations have been programmed out of the process. It's just one more respect in which the right has outsmarted, outmaneuvered, and out-hustled the left. Liberals are attempting an alternative, left-wing networking network, but it is barely further along than Al Gore's liberal cable channel." humanballast.blog-city.com