Pat Buchanan suggests: Too many Jews on U.S. Supreme Court bench

haaretZ ^ | 5/16/10 | staff

[Nachum]

American conservative political commentator Pat Buchanan wrote a column titled 'Are liberals anti-WASP' last week, in which he suggested that if Supreme Court justice nominee Elena Kagan is confirmed, there will be a disproportionately large number of Jews on the Supreme Court bench.

In his column for World Net Daily, Buchanan lamented the fact that since 1965, no Democratic president has nominated a black Supreme Court justice, but that "if Kagan is confirmed, Jews, who represent less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, will have 33 percent of the Supreme Court seats."

[restornu]

I wonder about Pat why smear a whole race he should have said too many secular humanist on the Supreme court.

[Kid Shelleen]

If she is in the IV League left wing inner circle then her religion is socialism.

[Kenny]

I am so sick of the blatant media manipulation. The put this out in the hope that conservatives will think we have an anti-semite in our mix.

[dayglored]

> ...but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.

EXACTLY.

Moreover, there is no reason whatsoever that the SCOTUS should look like (sex, religion, etc.) a cross-section of Americans. The whole idea is to get people on the court that are wiser than the average joker, and know the Constitution. Your average joker is (unfortunately) neither very wise, nor sufficiently familiar with the Constitution.

[Spok]

Buchanan doesn’t like Jews because they’re Jews; Obama just hates who Jews who support Israel. They share disparate but equally reprehensible viewpoints.

[plain talk]

That’s funny - I have never heard Pat complain about too many Catholics on the SC - oh yeah - he’s Catholic.

[Outlaw Woman]

Mark Levin.........what an outstanding justice he would be!

[stop_fascism]

Who would ever think that Buchanan is an anti-semite.

[exbrit]

Given that he’s a raging anti-semite, perhaps he’ll be happy when muslims are on the supreme court.

[nathanbedford]

Roosevelt sought and got credit for nominating the first Jew to the Supreme Court. Lyndon Johnson won approval for appointing the first black. Ronald Reagan was praised for appointing the first female . Barack Obama was credited for the first Hispanic.

All of these ethnic groups and women demanded these nominations of one of their own. Many of them decried a court staffed only with white males. Each "first" was applauded by the diversity crowd. In half a century we have managed to turn a co-equal branch of the federal government into an affirmative action slut machine. If an appointment can legitimately be praised for advancing the interests of a favored ethnic racial or gender group, cannot those not so favored legitimately complain?

If we appoint a judge on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, and gender, anyone who fails to complain if his group was ignored is a fool. I fully expect the Mormons to begin pressuring for the appointment of one of their own. Next in line will be the Muslims. Will Jews be accused of bigotry if they complain someday that they had no place on the court but the Muslims own 33 1/3% of the court?

Why do we on the basis of these remarks accuse Pat Buchanan of bigotry? As a white male Protestant I want more white male Protestants on the court to defend me against the diversity pirates on the court. I did not start out this way, they made me this way. I refuse to unilaterally disarm.

If they move the race war to the court, I will wage war in the court because I want to survive. I will not blame Pat Buchanan for telling the truth. I will not claim racism where none exists but I will insist on having my race, my gender, and my religion represented. I will put the blame where it belongs, on the race mongers who created this situation and not on a courageous messenger who tells us the Emperor has no clothes.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Buchanan is not a conservative.

[lightman]

After Kagan takes the bench, the Court will consist entirely of Jews and Catholics.

Of course, I could care less. The issue for me is judicial philosophy

Which is why I detest the exclusivity of the nations's highest court being comprised solely of Harvardites and Yalies.

[Brilliant]

The last 4 Presidents have also been from Yale and Harvard.

[dtrpscout]

There are too many Reform/Liberal/Secular Jews on the SCt. This is the standard spoiled and over-privileged ultra-liberal American Obama-supporting Jew. There are NOT NEARLY enough Conservative/Orthodx/Netanyahu-common sense Jews on the SCt. Just like there aren’t enough Black’s like Clarence Thomas on the Sct. See the difference?

[Argus]

More to the point, liberals, who represent 30% of the US population, will have half the SCOTUS seats.

[AmishDude]

I think non-lawyers should be represented on the bench.

First, law school is easy and is reserved for people who are too stupid to do mathematics.

Second, the law is a corrupt incestuous protection racket.

There is no reason that this single profession should have exclusive province over one-third of our representative republic, especially a third that has increasingly decided that it can arbitrarily override the wishes of the elected legislature based only on their desires and whims.

It is time we put people in black robes who will hold these people accountable.

[northwinds]

It is a bit odd that a group who represents 2% of the U.S. population would have one-third of the seats on the Supreme Court.....I think that if one-third of the Supreme Court were suddenly Muslim most here on FR would have a problem with that. And the fact that there are no Protestants is a little troubling to me as well.

[LibLieSlayer]

I have despised this racist nazi for years... and his sister is just as evil.

LLS

[dtrpscout]

PS: If the answer eludes, it is not the religious denomination, race, etc., its the philosophy and morality (morality: i.e., one’s ideas of what constitutes right vs wrong).

[dfwgator]

Oh come on, Pat lost a dear relative in the Holocaust, he fell out of the guard tower.