03-18-2016, 11:39 AM
we need to be all over Mitch McConnell, Grassley (judiciary comm), and your senators to hold off. The Dems have done this to republican presidents. It is the senates job to advise and consent and there is no timetable requirement. If there is one thing we don't need them to cave on it is this. I hope these spineless clowns hold their ground for once.
Scalia once said, "As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to 'do what the people want,' instead of what the document actually commands, politicians who pick and confirm new federal judges will naturally want only those who agree with them politically"
Also, "That's the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It has to change with society, like a living organism, or it will become brittle and break. But you would have to be an idiot to believe that. The Constitution is not a living organism, it is a legal document. It says something and doesn't say other things."
I wish I could remember the quote and I can't find it right now, but he mused that the nomination process of a Supreme Court Justice has become so political and consequential, that it shows the SCOTUS has become too powerful and beyond the scope of the court which is to interpret law.
Scalia once said, "As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to 'do what the people want,' instead of what the document actually commands, politicians who pick and confirm new federal judges will naturally want only those who agree with them politically"
Also, "That's the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It has to change with society, like a living organism, or it will become brittle and break. But you would have to be an idiot to believe that. The Constitution is not a living organism, it is a legal document. It says something and doesn't say other things."
I wish I could remember the quote and I can't find it right now, but he mused that the nomination process of a Supreme Court Justice has become so political and consequential, that it shows the SCOTUS has become too powerful and beyond the scope of the court which is to interpret law.