“I’m voting for whomever can stop more liberal Justices. Hoping (relatively speaking at this point) it’s Perry, but yeah, I’ll vote for Willard if it comes to that. For the Court.”
Which illustrates that the judiciary has become entirely too powerful. The Founders erred terribly with respect to the federal judiciary, which has been embezzling power since 1803.
Absolutely correct. There was a time when even a “policy leftist” appointed to the high court recognized that, gosh darn it, the law did not allow or guarantee every leftist RESULT desired.
But can you think of the last “policy liberal” who, once on the Court, declined to “find” that the law (conveniently) always happened to guarantee his preferred liberal result? Felix Frankfurter?
In contrast, Scalia an Thomas, and to a lesser degree others, have fought the good fight by insisting “this Court shouldn’t even have the power to be deciding this issue in the first place” on issue after issue.
But all the more reason to vote in 2012 so as to prevent more young Sotomayors and Kagans from arriving on the bench in place of aging Scalias.