Posted on 05/04/2005 2:39:01 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Issues & Insights
Wednesday, May 4, 2005
Profile Of An Extremist
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Washington: Ever wonder just what it is about Janice Rogers Brown that prompted the Democrats to so fiercely oppose her nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals? It's her radical position on the Constitution.
Or rather, it's her dedication to constitutional limits that has enraged the left. They don't want anyone on the bench who might get in the way of federal policies and programs that can't withstand constitutional scrutiny.
Brown, the African-American daughter of an Alabama sharecropper, happens to believe the Supreme Court's protection of the government's expansion of the 1930s was "the triumph of our own socialist revolution."
California Supreme Court Justice Brown says that same enlargement of Washington's power "inoculated the federal Constitution with a kind of underground collectivist mentality. The Constitution itself was transmuted into a significantly different document."
Tough words. No wonder Brown is getting rough treatment in the Senate and media.
She dares to utter what has become obvious to many — that when it comes to governing, collectivism, not constitutionalism, is often the guiding principle.
The left will scratch, bite and claw to beat down any judge who believes, and is willing to say, that the federal government is a "leviathan" that's "crushing everything in its path," as Brown has. Those holding such views see Brown's refusal to accept more taxes and spending to feed the leviathan as proof of her judicial activism.
"Her intellect notwithstanding, she has no business on the federal bench," concludes Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial page editor Cynthia Tucker. "Her views are well outside the mainstream." Tucker conveniently confirms the left's conviction that mainstream thought, which is to say public whim, trumps the Constitution as this nation's guiding principle.
Brown is more than a constitutional rabble-rouser...
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
We need more like Brown. Thanks for posting this story.
The left hates her most because of the color of her skin. She has opinions that people of color are not allowed to have.
"Brown, the African-American daughter of an Alabama sharecropper, happens to believe the Supreme Court's protection of the government's expansion of the 1930s was 'the triumph of our own socialist revolution.'"
Someday, I'm gonna watch her being sworn in as Chief Justice. She absolutely rocks.
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