Posted on 10/21/2014 9:51:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The life of a Supreme Court justice would be “a little bit too monastic” for President Obama, according to an interview he gave the New Yorker about his legal legacy.
Obama also praised the Supreme Court’s recent decision not to review lower-court rulings that struck down state prohibitions on same-sex marriage, saying he believes that the Constitution provides gays the right to marry.
And he said that 81-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg “gets to decide, not anybody else, when she chooses to go” into retirement.
Obama made the remarks to the magazine’s legal correspondent, Jeffrey Toobin.
Toobin noted that the president has now nominated about a third of the nation’s federal judges — including Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — and that on nine of the nation’s 13 appeals circuits, a majority of judges were chosen by Democratic presidents. When Obama took office, Republican appointees were a majority on 10 of the circuits.
Obama said he takes pride that he has appointed more women and minorities to the courts than any of his predecessors.
“I think there are some particular groups that historically have been underrepresented — like Latinos and Asian Americans — that represent a larger and larger portion of the population,” he said. “And so for them to be able to see folks in robes that look like them is going to be important.....
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Which also means that Ginsberg has no say in the matter of when she will ‘go’.
“Toobin noted that the president has now nominated about a third of the nation’s federal judges — including Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — and that on nine of the nation’s 13 appeals circuits, a majority of judges were chosen by Democratic presidents. When Obama took office, Republican appointees were a majority on 10 of the circuits.”
That is horribly troubling and without disqualifying or impeaching his judicial appointments, his ramrodding of liberals to our federal courts will devastate the country within a generation.
The fool does not know the significance of Marbury and he wants to be on SCOTUS.
He doesn’t have the IQ for the job.
I’d have no problem with Ted being Chief Justice after eight years in the White House, though.
We’re supposed to be a diverse society. Yet people want SC justices to look like them. Which is it?
No worries, they both lost their law license.
Liberals say that people want justices to look like them, meaning being of the same skin color or ethnic background.
Whether that’s true is debatable in my opinion.
For example, I am white but admire Justice Thomas. He is a different race but I like his opinions and rulings. I would not want to have a liberal white justice replace Justice Thomas just to have someone of the same ethnicity on the court.
Actually, I think liberals want to have liberal minority or liberal women judges. Conservatives of any background ethnicity or sex need not apply.
The Supreme Court is jayvee stuff to Obama. I think he the cohort of billionaire puppeteers who run him have their eyes on his becoming world dictator as U.N. Secretary General.
The US Supreme Court is not a representative body. There is no proportionality requirement for the delegation of seats on the court.
Obama also praised the Supreme Court’s recent decision not to review lower-court rulings that struck down state prohibitions on same-sex marriage, saying he believes that the Constitution provides gays the right to marry.
I don’t recall that I ever read about marriage anywhere in the Constitution which would leave marriage entirely up to the states if I read the Tenth Amendment correctly.
No, he wants to work at the YMCA.
Or as a Boy Scout leader.
Or in a Turkish prison...
Where is this right? Explicitly, where is it?
I’m not sure whom dropped that trial balloon about Odunga being nominated to the Supreme Court, but that person/organization should be ridiculed loud and often.
Never happen,
This jive punk ass poser might have to actually do some work were he a supreme.
Besides,you think this narcissist a-hole wants to be just one of the gang?
I think he will come out of the closet and anounce he is a mooselimb and with the help of the 49 member states who are active in the u.n.and are moosie dominate he wants to be head of the u.n.
That’s my big takeaway from the article. He’s left a gigantic mark on the judiciary.
He promised to “fundamentally transform” the nation, and has done so here in a particularly sneaky way - by appointing judges to enact his will for decades after he’s left office. I’ll be an old man, and his nominees will still be on the bench, issuing bad decision after bad decision.
The liberals use the judicial branch as their personalized ultra-veto pen.. they don’t like a law? They challenge it in court and have their robed goons knock it down, creating specious legal “reasoning” out of thin air to do the job. Even when they’re out of office, we’re still fighting their appointees’ dirtywork.
And if Hillary gets in, it’ll be decades before we recover. The judiciary will be gone at that point.
I need some Pepto. It’s waaay too early to work myself up like this.
If he could persuade Ginsberg to retire, he could appoint himself, Harry Reid could push it through the Senate (changing the rules to make a simple majority all that is needed), and he could resign the Presidency five minutes before being sworn in as Supreme Court Justice.
Don’t you have to show valid ID to be a justice?
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