Posted on 03/16/2009 8:45:03 AM PDT by bs9021
Judgement Call
by: Daniel Allen, March 16, 2009
By some estimates, President Obama may have the opportunity to nominate one-third of federal appellate judges in his first term alone. Presented with such a stunning figure, thinkers and analysts have naturally begun speculate on the best strategy for Obama to employ in his nominations, and to offer advice. The Heritage Foundation assembled a panel of experts on March 11th to offer their insights.
One of the panel’s most interesting discussions centered on whether or not it would be beneficial for Obama to appoint liberal judges to the bench, as they would probably be more inclined to impose stricter limits on certain executive powers. The judges he appoints may come back to haunt him if he seeks to expand the scope of the government through executive leadership.
“Obama might come to regret it if he tilts the federal bench too far to the left,” said Stuart Taylor, a contributing editor at Newsweek. He cited as an example a recent case in which liberal judges voted to restrict the armed service’s sonar training in the Pacific Ocean in order to protect marine life. Although there had been no documented incidents of marine life being harmed by sonar training in the last forty years, Supreme Court Justices Ginsberg and Souter voted to restrict the President’s powers as Commander in Chief.
“If he wants to avoid seeing his national security policy nibbled to death by judicial ducks,” Taylor warned, the President should ask himself while considering nominees, “which group of lawyers and judges tend to be reasonably deferential to the President and Congress, and reasonably modest in expanding judicial power on national security issues?”....
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I hope everyone who voted for Obama (or who failed to cast a serious vote against him) is pleased with the judges they are going to be stuck with.
The judges will lean far left, and the hope is that the Supreme Court holds center-right until 2012.
We'll see many more pro-criminal, pro-illegal immigrant decisions, just like the 70s.
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