In case you missed it–Conservative lawyers for McCain
- Posted by Beth on February 1st, 2008 filed in 2008 election, Candidates, General, John McCain, Journalism, Moonbats, Politics, SCOTUS conservatives · law · Republicans
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I saw the news about Ted Olson at the Contentions blog last night, along with the news that Miguel Estrada, Steven Calabresi, and Charles Fried have endorsed John McCain.
What a buncha libs!!!1!1
/eyeroll
Here’s Ted Olson:
Take that, Mark Levin. You aren’t fit to shine any of those mens’ shoes, and neither are the other children on the playground.
Since people are building a strawman in homage to John McCain, regarding how they think he’ll appoint liberal judges to the bench, I’ll offer these quotes. Snagged from the comments at the Volokh Conspiracy:
New York Times, October 6, 1987.
“One should remember that, if our courts are free to go beyond the terms of our cherished Constitution to create new constitutional mandates that some might find acceptable, the Supreme Court in later years could use that free-roaming power to create mandates we don’t like. Neither course is sound. The only sound course for the courts is to apply the law as it’s written, not create it as they might wish it to be.
“Again the issue is not whether Bork is anti-abortion or anti-privacy. The question is this: Is Robert Bork unfit for the Supreme Court because he believes this decision [Roe v. Wade] is logically and constitutionally flawed? I think not.
“Of course we must protect minorities and even majorities from societal discrimination. But this doesn’t mean that, because he’s criticized the methodology the Court’s used, he’s any less committed to full and fair enforcement of the equal protection clause. All it means is that he’s a smart and outspoken enough legal scholar to point out some of the very real problems with the Court’s legal reasoning.”
Los Angeles Times, July 25, 1990.
Republican Sens. Phil Gramm of Texas and Don Nickles of Oklahoma each gave tentative endorsements to Souter. But Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona expressed frustration that the President had nominated a low-profile judge, apparently to avoid the kind of blood bath triggered by the nomination of Bork.
“Any first-year law student would tell you his chance of an eventual appointment to the Supreme Court is directly related to the paucity of writing or speaking on controversial issues,” McCain said acidly. “It gives us a largely unknown quantity in appointments to the bench.”
QED.
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