Posted on 10/29/2009 5:18:11 PM PDT by Kaslin
Judiciary: The nominee for a California federal district court is an ACLU activist and another advocate for the empathy standard of jurisprudence. He also has a problem with "America the Beautiful."
The nomination of Edward Chen is the latest in a series of nominations of people who have no particular fondness for the traditions of law and justice. These nominees see racism everywhere, and believe the courts should be used as instruments of social justice and not to discern the intent of the Founding Fathers who wrote the U.S. Constitution. They believe their "life experience" should be the final arbiter of justice.
Chen's nomination was forwarded by the Senate Judiciary Committee to the full Senate last Friday. He currently serves as a federal magistrate in San Francisco and is a lawyer with a long history working with the American Civil Liberties Union.
In an article for the California Law Review, Chen wrote: "Simply put, a judge's lifetime experiences affect the willingness to credit testimony or understand the human impact of legal rules upon which the judge must decide." Where have we heard this before?
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He's worse.
The wackos are in charge.
After all those WASPs that George W. Bush nominated to the bench like Miguel Estrada and Janice Rogers Brown, I think it’s refreshing that Obama is nominating minorities. (Do I have to tag this?)
I miss President Bush
Like the courtroom scene in last year's An American Carol, with James Woods and Dennis Hopper trying to fight off all the ACLU zombies rushing the bench with writs and motions.
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