With Sonia Sotomayor on her nomination in 2009
Posted on 09/26/2020 9:31:48 PM PDT by ebb tide
With Sonia Sotomayor on her nomination in 2009
Joe Biden has said that he will only appoint “living” constitutionalists to the courts. Unless they find unstated rights in the Constitution, he won’t name them: “I would look to judges, potential nominees, they would have to acknowledge the fact that there are unenumerated rights that are nonetheless constitutional rights; they’re not mentioned by name in the Constitution.”
In other words, his ideal judge is a left-wing activist willing to legislate from the bench according to whatever the liberal zeitgeist demands. Biden calls Trump an enemy of democracy, but what could be less democratic than Biden’s view of the courts? He seeks to achieve through them what he can’t accomplish legislatively. His judges would regularly deprive the people of the freedom to govern themselves.
Biden has opposed Trump’s judges not for their lack of legal credentials but for an originalism that impedes the Democratic Party’s ideological whims.
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Do not forget the 9th Amendment...
...though the 1st and 2nd are uppermost in my mind.
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