On the topic of stalled judicial nominations, let's listen to the wisdom of New York Senator Charles Schumer (D):
"I also plead with my colleagues to move judges with alacrity -- vote them up or down. But this delay makes a mockery of the Constitution, makes a mockery of the fact that we are here working, and makes a mockery of the lives of very sincere people who have put themselves forward to be judges and then they hang out there in limbo."
Wow! I hadn't realized that Mr. Schumer supported an end to the Democrats' obstructionist tactics.
Unfortunately, consistency of principle is not Mr. Schumer's strong suit. He spoke these words about stalled Clinton nominees.
Well, they say payback's a bitch. I can only hope that Senator Frist and the rest of the Republicans in Congress can effect a rules change so that no president of any party will have to have his choices for the federal benches blocked on strictly ideological grounds.
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As always, you make good points.
You are, of course, correct that judges don't MAKE laws, they interpret them. Unfortunately, I think some judges didn't get the memo.
How else do you explain the fabrication of a "right to privacy" out of whole cloth? Or using that non-existent right to further determine a right to sodomy or gay marriage exists?
A lot of people, myself included, are sick of such jurists. We want judges who will read the Constitution and determine whether or not a law is consitutional and not depend on what the International Criminal Court or the High Court of Jamaica says.
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