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To: Cogito who wrote (64159)	5/7/2008 3:58:15 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542836

If a Senator believes that a Supreme Court nominee does not or would not interpret the Constitution in a reasonable way, then I believe that Senator should vote against confirming him or her. We must have had a disconnect. I'm not disputing that. I would consider unreasonable to be a clear disqualification. I'm thinking Bork, for example. Sometimes the smartest kids go all weird. They don't belong on the Supreme Court.

To: Cogito who wrote (64159)	5/7/2008 11:07:19 PM
From: Bridge Player	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 542836

If a Senator believes that a Supreme Court nominee does not or would not interpret the Constitution in a reasonable way, then I believe that Senator should vote against confirming him or her. That is precisely the point. Interpreting the Constitution in a reasonable way is totally a function of our subject Senator's ideology. It is exactly tantamount to saying, if the nominee, based on the judicial record, would not be likely to interpret the Constitution in the way in which he would interpret it , then he should vote against confirmation. Now, it is fine, and even reasonable, for you to believe that. In fact, if I were in the Senate and a Democratic president nominated a liberal judge to the court, I would vote against confirmation. But the argument that has been made here is that that's not supposed to be the way it works; that that's not what advise and consent means. When it comes to politics, reasonable is pretty subjective.