Comments on: Is Bush reaching out on Supreme Court appointments?

By: Bostonian

Bostonian — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 23:18:54 +0000

I’m with Kyda.

If Americans wanted Democrats to pick the judges, then Americans would have voted for Democrats. That’s the system.

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:01:49 +0000

Here come de judge, here come de judge, first among de equal branches, here come de judge!

By: Swede

Swede — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:34:51 +0000

President Bush doesn’t need a litmus test and he won’t be pressured by special interests because he knows his own mind and knows who he wants to nominate.

My hope is for a strict constructionist. And my belief is that the founders anticipated the need for an adaptive constitution by building in the ability to amend it. Instead, it is being ever increasingly modified by jurists who, not finding support for their positions within the confines of the constitution, are willing to borrow their precedents from outside institutions, and abrogate the power of our legislative branch of government in the process.

By: Kyda Sylvester

Kyda Sylvester — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:02:02 +0000

And that’s Ms. al Kyda to you (boy did I get a lot of that right after 9-11; it wouldn’t even be an issue if people would pronounce al Qaeda properly, but I gave up long ago and learned to let it go).

By: Kyda Sylvester

Kyda Sylvester — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:52:13 +0000

Buddy, I think the Constitution is a living, breathing document and should reflect the times in which we live. And I expect President Bush to nominate justices who feel the same.

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:00:49 +0000

I want to join the Constitutional Revolutionaries–how ’bout you, al Kyda?

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:50:48 +0000

I hope he nominates Ralph Neas and Norman Lear. I want a good centrist Supreme Court that disagrees with the Constitution. That way we can join our allies in the mideast and have a terror war. I’d really like that. Really.

By: Kyda Sylvester

Kyda Sylvester — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:27:45 +0000

I suppose it’s all right for Bush to reach out to Democrats, as long as he then rejects most, if not all, they have to say on the matter. If I wanted Democrats selecting SCOTUS nominees, I would vote for Democrats for president.

By: David Thomson

David Thomson — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:27:20 +0000

President Bush needs to pick a nominee who shuns postmodernist rhetoric. Our rights are in danger when judges ignore the actual Constitution and instead refer to their prejudices and willy-nilly progressive inclinations. The progeny of Michel Foucault and Paul De Man must not be allowed to do further damage with their decisions based on “emanations and penumbra.”

By: Curmudgeon

Curmudgeon — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:03:22 +0000

I’m not sure what to make of this, since all acts of “consultation” will have to be mere window dressing, or else surrender. There is no middle ground. Any nominee acceptable to the Democrats (let alone pleasing) will be unacceptable to Bush’s base as well as libertarian (small “L”) allies such as me.