Judge Murray Snow (Mormon, nominated by W)
Early life and education
Snow was born in Boulder City, Nevada. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1984. He received a Juris Doctor degree from J. Reuben Clark Law School, at BYU in 1987.
Legal career
Snow started his legal career as a law clerk for Judge Stephen H. Anderson, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit from 1987 to 1988. He was in private practice in Phoenix, Arizona from 1988 to 2002. He was a judge on the Arizona Court of Appeals from 2002 to 2008.
Federal career
Snow was nominated by President George W. Bush on December 11, 2007, to a seat vacated by Stephen M. McNamee. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 26, 2008, and received his commission on July 23, 2008.
He likely listens to Glenn Beck.
Herein lies the problem with the judiciary. Both Bushes and Reagan selected conservative justices like Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, but also moderates like Sandra O'Connor and David Souter. Democratic Presidents, from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama, almost exclusively appoint liberals. Ultimately, we must overturn not only the decisions of the Roberts, Burger, and Warren Supreme Courts, but the very concept of judicial review of Congressional legislation or state legislation. This precedent was set some 200 years ago with Marbury v. Madison. Until the Congress limits the authority of the Federal courts, we will suffer the effects of judges legislating from the bench, a bad idea even if conservatives were to dominate the courts.