The Warlocks Of Southwick

IBD ^ | JUly 26, 2007

[Kaslin]

The Judiciary: Unnerved by the Supreme Court's tilt to the right, and with a possible vacancy looming, Democrats are once again blocking qualified judicial nominees to please the special interest groups they serve.

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We have noted the rightward tilt of the Supreme Court after the Bush appointments of Justice Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts. The recent decision that integration plans in public schools in Louisville and Seattle were unconstitutional — with Roberts declaring that "the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race" — indicated that the court was adhering more closely to the Founding Fathers' interpretation of the document they wrote.

Now, with the possibility of one or more vacancies on our highest court, Democrats and their special interests are revving up in a way not seen since the "gang of 14" brokered a deal to end judicial filibusters in exchange for taking the "nuclear option" of simple majority-vote confirmations off the table. They're afraid Bush will further shift the courts to the right, perhaps for a very long time.

Enter Judge Leslie Southwick, President Bush's nominee to a seat on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. Not just any seat, but the seat held by Charles Pickering after a recess appointment by Bush. Pickering's confirmation was blocked by a malicious campaign that branded him a racist despite praise for his record on civil rights.

[Lexinom]

In one case, PFAW President Ralph Neas laments that the Mississippi appellate-court judge used "gratuitously anti-gay" terminology in describing lesbians. The term, used in a custody case between a father and a lesbian mother, was "homosexual lifestyle."

How bigoted can you get?

oooooooooooooooo. Homo Sexual Lifestyle! Well, dog my cats...

If the Democrats resurrect their politically unjustified obstructionism, perhaps the nuclear option should also be resurrected. And in case the GOP needs a winning campaign issue, this just might be it.

It certainly may be. There is no justification for this obstructionism, so why not put them before the jury of the American people?

[sergeantdave]

“the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race”

This reasoning will blow past the racists in the rat party. The only way to resurrect freedom in this country is to shove it down the rat’s throats via judicial decisions, because the jellyfish encrusted in congress certainly won’t.

We need one more catatonic communist on the SC to go down, replaced by another originalist. The drooling Stalinist Stevens is my first choice. He should have been impeached years ago for sedition and hanged.

[IrishMike]

If the Democrats resurrect their politically unjustified obstructionism, perhaps the nuclear option should also be resurrected. And in case the GOP needs a winning campaign issue, this just might be it.

[George W. Bush]

McConnell’s promised to get tough on judicial nominees. He’d better deliver.

[Badeye]

McConnell’s promised to get tough on judicial nominees. He’d better deliver.

Yep. And he shouldn’t take an advice from Trent Lott.