Breyer's Big Idea: The Justice’s vision for a progressive revival on the Supreme Court.

The New Yorker ^ | Jeffrey Toobin

[Mr Rogers]

You say Breyer "is unquestionably highly intelligent".

Yet he seems unable to understand that the people participate in government in elections - of congresscritters and presidents.

We have NO participation in the selection of the 9 unaccountable judges to whom Breyer gives power in the name of "participatory self-government".

Sounds stupid to me. I'm not a Meirs supporter, but the simple idea that we cannot participate in government by having 9 unelected life-term people making the law is simple enough that she could understand.

Now, does she truly understand that, or would she be a 'republican vote' in the unelected congress - that is the question.

[William Terrell]

The current law, custom and constitutional provisions providing for citizenship were accurate, and not a matter of opinion and interpretation. Maybe some of the other legal points brought up in the case were overanalysed, but the landmark rulings were fact, and based on the federal effect on all the states, not just one that provided state citizenship to blacks.

All expressed opinions of that case were and are based on an emotional reaction to the harsh status of the blacks in America at that time, not hard law. Hard law is what we conservatives want the SC to use.