When Ideology Rules Us

The American Thinker ^ | May 09, 2009 | Bruce Walker

[Scanian]

The unfolding spectacle of which leftist cipher should be appointed by Obama to replace departing leftist cipher, David Souter, on the Supreme Court underscores just how purely ideological justice in America has become. At first blush, conservatives might have taken some hope from Obama's promise to look for "those on the outside" to be on the court: there is no more underrepresented group in government or politics than conservatives, and there is no group more subject to the unfair application of the law than conservatives.

The left, of course, does not care at all about the qualifications of any nominee. Robert Bork was profoundly qualified and yet utterly unacceptable. The left, also, does not really care about demographic representation: ask Clarence Thomas, Miguel Estrada, Janice Rogers Brown, or Priscilla Owen. The left cares only about having enough Lords in our American House of Lords so that the Constitution can be bent into any purpose that suits the agenda of the left.

It should be that justices are impartial, learned, honorable, and independent. But that ideal exists only when everyone with political power has the same tacit covenant with unprejudiced, individual justice. When justice is dragooned into a political movement or an ideological agenda, then justice no longer exists. It is not just judges who have become advocates of causes instead of neutral referees. Prosecutors have also pandered to racial and gender hatred (as in the Duke Lacrosse Case) or vicious partisan persecution (as with Scooter Libby or Tom Delay

[chuck_the_tv_out]

“departing leftist cipher, David Souter”

Damn some people are so dense.

No, it would be “unreasonable for 0 to appoint a leftist” to replace this guy. You start saying souter was a leftist you give 0 carte blanche to replace him with a harder leftist

[Congressman Billybob]

Thanks for posting this. As often occurs, FreeRepublic is on the issue before the rest of the press. See below.

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[SuziQ]

At first blush, conservatives might have taken some hope from Obama's promise to look for "those on the outside" to be on the court:

Huh? Was there ANY conservative who took that to mean someone other than a wild eyed liberal? I assumed it meant someone outside the DC bubble, possibly even someone who isn't a sitting judge. I'm thinking an Ivory Tower liberal, like Cass Sunstein, he of the "Living Constitution".

[RicocheT]

Obama’s promise to look for “those on the outside” to be on the court actually means look for a judge that will trash the Constitution and Bill of Rights. A judge that will OK Obama’s statist socialist laws and regulations. A judge that will bend to the Congress and Administration so the third arm of our government, the courts, no longer serves as a balance of power instrument.