Betcha he's a Clinton Nominee! We need a list of all the judges who've ruled "against the mainstream" on the liberal side and send it up to Washington to have made into a CHART for those damn senators!
U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon was nominated to the bench in January of 1997 and confirmed by the Senate nearly 10 months later.
This reminds me of something that happened in Colorado with Proposition 2, or similar.....my memory is foggy.
The nature of the argument was that you could allow somebody to ask for something, then turn them down; but, you could not prohibit their asking for it in the first place. Prohibiting the request is unconstitutional; denying it isn't.
It was tricky. So are those who want to change the dominant culture of the US.
Maybe he is, but don't be surprised if a Republican president put him in. A lot of liberal judges were appointed by Nixon, Ford and Bush Sr.
"Betcha he's a Clinton Nominee! We need a list of all the judges who've ruled "against the mainstream" on the liberal side and send it up to Washington to have made into a CHART for those damn senators!"
Exactly. I can't remember how many times I've heard some true extremist like Sen Schumer, Kennedy, Clinton, Boxer, etc go on about how Bush's judges are 'out of the mainstream' and are radical. The best retort the GOP seems to have is that judges shouldn't legislate from the bench, and while that is true, it lacks bite.
To give it more power, the GOP must be ready to list one absurd leftwing decision after another. Make it clear how judges have made impossible even the most reasonable, mainstream restrictions on abortion; how they have arrogantly disregarded the people and the Constitution in creating a right to gay marriage; how they have twisted the Establishment Clause beyond recogintion to where they can use it to ban public nativity scenes and prayer before highschool football games; how they have given citizen-like status to illegal aliens, etc.
The GOP needs to make it clear that in reality conservative judges are much closer to the mainstream than anything you'd get from the Dems. They need to make it clear that the worst thing conservatives would do (from the pt of view of a liberal-moderate) is to leave the decision to the people and/or their representatives. They will not impose anything, which stands in stark contrast to liberal judges who repeatedly impose one thing after another that the people would reject, or already have rejected.
There is no excuse for not going to great lengths to make it known to the public what exactly constitutes a mainstream judge to the likes of Schumer and Kennedy.