Posted on 10/23/2005 7:52:28 AM PDT by Crackingham
You say Breyer "is unquestionably highly intelligent".
Yet he seems unable to understand that the people participate in government in elections - of congresscritters and presidents.
We have NO participation in the selection of the 9 unaccountable judges to whom Breyer gives power in the name of "participatory self-government".
Sounds stupid to me. I'm not a Meirs supporter, but the simple idea that we cannot participate in government by having 9 unelected life-term people making the law is simple enough that she could understand.
Now, does she truly understand that, or would she be a 'republican vote' in the unelected congress - that is the question.
All expressed opinions of that case were and are based on an emotional reaction to the harsh status of the blacks in America at that time, not hard law. Hard law is what we conservatives want the SC to use.
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