To: Owen
All those who clamored on FR for an Alito may want to read this real carefully. This is not going to be a consistent conservative vote on the court. You have only yourselves to blame for it, but you'll find a way to blame someone else. I didn't want a "consistent conservative" on the court. I wanted a consistent judicial conservative on the Court who would interpret the law as written, not as he thinks it should be. Whether that gives a "liberal" or "conservative" result is not something about which a judge should care. Justice Scalia found flag burning to be protected speech. I didn't agree with the result, and he personally hated that result, but I was satisfied because he didn't let his personal views affect his legal analysis.
38 posted on
01/12/2006 12:06:03 PM PST by
XJarhead
To: XJarhead
I didn't want a "consistent conservative" on the court. I wanted a consistent judicial conservative on the Court who would interpret the law as written, not as he thinks it should be. Whether that gives a "liberal" or "conservative" result is not something about which a judge should care. Justice Scalia found flag burning to be protected speech. I didn't agree with the result, and he personally hated that result, but I was satisfied because he didn't let his personal views affect his legal analysis.
Thank you for stating, much more compelling than I could, my views. I am apposed to Judaical activism - weather or not I agree with the outcome of said activism. So, if the SCOTUS overturns RvW for reasons other than 1) it is a very badly written law, OR 2) the 4th amendment privacy guarantee is not the right to abortion, I will be very disappointed in the SCOTUS.
59 posted on
01/12/2006 1:27:20 PM PST by
Talking_Mouse
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