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To: The_Republican
The left is now borrowing our rhetoric without the substance. The argument in the article that conservatives are trying to overrule the legislature to impose our agenda is laughable. Normally, our desire is to prevent judges from doing that exactly that, unless there is a specific constitutional basis for doing so that actually appears in the Constitution.

In other words, conservative jurisprudence leaves much more leeway to the legislatures than left-wing jurisprudence, which appoints judges as elite, roving super-legislators who can impose their values regardless of the legislature's decision and regardless of what the Constitution actually says.

5 posted on 05/07/2008 9:59:44 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: ModelBreaker

This author is a complete idiot. Scalia and Thomas believe in deferring to Democracy instead of an oligarchical activist court when answering difficult moral questions— I guess this means that the democrats are against democracy.


6 posted on 05/07/2008 10:03:04 PM PDT by Seven Minute Maniac
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