Keep wall between judiciary and politics (Mario Cuomo Whining Op-Ed)

USA Today | July 21, 2005 | Mario M. Cuomo

[RWR8189]

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[RWR8189]

Methinks Cuomo still got sour grapes that no one ever tapped him to be on the SCOTUS.

[kingu]

But that's not what the Founding Fathers intended. They wanted to create a high and impenetrable "wall of separation" between the judicial branch and the two political branches — the presidency and the Congress

Actually, the Founding Fathers intended a very week court subservient to all, including that piece of paper called a Constitution. Black robed tyrants were never desired. The creation of law was solely invested into Congress' paws, the courts had zero to do with it.

I do find it strange that he argues against someone being appointed who has a particular viewpoint because they might change the previous viewpoint which was just fine because it matched the author's viewpoint.

Yeah, I get confused reading this junk too.

[John Valentine]

That "wall between judiciary and politics" was climbed over with supreme ease - and with no complaints from Mario when the Bent One nominated Ruth B. Ginsberg and Stephen Breyer.

[goldstategop]

The Framers mean the courts to be a political body. The entire process of naming judges involves political considerations and they involve reward for party service, ideological allegiance, and philosophical outlook. Contrary to Mario The Pious, judges have never been named to serve on our courts in the entire history of our country on the basis of merit alone.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[ZULU]

Who let the Gargoyle out??

I thought he was decorating a roof at Notre Dame Cathedral.

[Tom_Busch]

Yeah, I was wondering if he is going to be urging Breyer and Ginsburg to resign from the court.

[gridlock]

Despite that history, in his first few years, President Bush appeared to go out of his way to select federal court candidates who favor ending or curtailing abortion rights, and support other political objectives that have not been accomplished by the political branches of government but might yet be done by the judiciary.

It is at this particular point where Mario Cuomo, as he does in every argument, stands reality on it's head.

Given the example of abortion, the objective of restricting abortion has been accomplished by the political branches of government in dozens of different ways, large and small, over the last 40 years. It is the judiciary that consistently frustrates that objective and imposes contrary law. President Bush has sought, if anything, to limit the ability of the judiciary to thwart the political branches of government.

Most people tired of Mario Cuomo's "white is black/day is night" arguments some time ago. They are such an artifact of the 70s, that one wonders why USAToday is wasting the ink. Mario Cuomo is famous as being the biggest self-promoter to never be tapped for a position on the Supreme Court. This makes him an authority on what the court is not, not on what the court actually is.

[Phlap]

Mario would be on the court if he didn't have so many skeletons in his closet one of whom is likely Jimmy Hoffa.

[stevem]

Most political analysts believe that President Bush, by nominating Judge John Roberts, seeks to put on the Supreme Court a justice who will help achieve significant changes in laws through judicial decisions that the political branches of our government have failed to deliver. That would include limitations on abortion and the separation of church and state.

This guy is insane. They had a nut who was governor in NY.

[AFPhys]

For once, I'm glad that we can't repost a full article on FR.

[old and tired]

Cuomo is a horse's ass.

Ever since he made that idiotic speech at Notre Dame explaining how he can be both Catholic and pro-abortion, I've believed he's made a deal with the devil.

What bugs me about Cuomo as much as Cuomo himself is all the people who think he's brilliant.

He's a whiny, liberal slimeball.

[gridlock]

What bugs me about Cuomo as much as Cuomo himself is all the people who think he's brilliant.

Some folks love Mario because he gave them a way to avoid the uneasy task of living up to their faith. They feel indebted to him.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

What bugs me about Cuomo as much as Cuomo himself is all the people who think he's brilliant.

Based on one keynote address.

The guy is a subversive fool.

[par4]

You also have to consider his stellar career as a talk show host when you discuss his brilliance. Apparently, he was so erudite that no one understood him (or cared to be lectured to).

Just the man to tell the rest of us what to think.

[ConservativeMan55]

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Senator Coburn comments on John Roberts.