Posted on 09/30/2005 11:57:49 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
I don't think you read closely. His opinions show that he knows the proper role of a judge, that he stays out of areas properly left to the executive and legislative branches, but that he will not condone efforts by those branches to exceed their constitutional authority.
In that is a philosophy. And it works for me.
That is not what I think of as philosophy. There is no doubt the man is strong defender and practitioner of judicial restraint.
Like I said, I expect him to be a good, solid judge. But not of the Scalia/Thomas mode.
LOL !
"There is no doubt the man is strong defender and practitioner of judicial restraint."
See, to me that implies that he will not rule like Ginsburg, Souter, et al, because he knows his proper role. That's the core of the philosophy we hold dear.
"But not of the Scalia/Thomas mode."
There was no reason to know that Thomas would be of the Scalia/Thomas mode. But he turned out to be. I believe Roberts will as well.
Well said.
Callahan, like Gonzales, is Hispanic. There has never been a Hispanic Supreme Court justice.
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This "reporter" perhaps should have check up on Justice Cardozo before trying this on us.
>> He was returning to the White House Sunday to attend the Red Mass, a service for those in the legal profession. <<
Lessee how many others find it obvious that the mass would be called the Red Mass.
Ha! awesome post!
I'm thinking that Brown would be the favorite of freepers! Just a hunch!
"There was no reason to know that Thomas would be of the Scalia/Thomas mode."
You just have to wonder....I wonder if Thomas' philosophy sort of crystalized during his confirmation hearing? Wouldn't it be just all to awesome to figure out that he would have been a big time moderate, had they just let him sail through, but since they treated him like crap, he is still giving payback to the left? Ha.
This is not all that implausible. Remember he was a big Danforth staffer. I doubt if ultra RINO Danforth would have been quite as supportive of another Scalia.
Janice Rogers Brown, you say. :)
Good points. I'd like to think that the libs brought him on themselves!
Are any of them even moderately pro-life?
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