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."

[Nachum]

How about just nominating a few more like Justice Scalia, Pat?

[mnehring]

Is it not obvious why he is MSNBC’s token Conservative(sic).

[hennie pennie]

*ping*

[WKUHilltopper]

If he’s worried about too many Jews...let’s see how he likes homosexuals on there.

What a dope...no wonder he’s the token conservative.

[o_zarkman44]

And there are absolutely NO Protestants on the Supreme court either.
for a nation based on Judeo-Christian heritage, a large segment of the population is not represented in ideology of Protestant upbringing.

[hinckley buzzard]

Pat is apparently captive to the bogus notion that the Court "needs to look like America." Justices don't represent anybody. They are supposed to interpret the law and render judgments. That's all. Buchanan has the same idiot idea that Laura "We need more women" Bush has. And they are both muddleheaded.

[Kid Shelleen]

did he really suggest that or was he trying to make a point about liberal hypocrisy and diversity?

[MNJohnnie]

Article VI US Consitution.

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.

[devere]

NAZIs are also underrepresented on the Supreme Court. Pat could fill that lack, but then we’d have still another Catholic!

Enough of ethnic and religious politics. Let’s just have the best legal minds on the Supreme Court. That should eliminate Elena Kagan.

[omega4179]

Too many Marxists - I don’t care if they are Catholic Protestant or Jewish.

[BradyLS]

I think he’s pointing out that libs, who are oh-so concerned about “diversity” never apply the rule in their appointments.

[Nowhere Man]

That's one thing I find troubling about Pat. He hits it dead on on many issues but on this one, he's off target. He is looking more and more anti-Semetic each day. I know not all Jews voted for Obama or democratic, true a majority did, but I think they might begin to wake up since Obama is screwing Israel left and right.

My concerns are her stances where she is not SC material, she would restrict freedom of speech, what she wrote sounds a lot like the old Fairness Doctrine. She seems to be a barking moonbat. One interesting thing though, she can win a Chas Bono look alike contest. B-D

[BradyLS]

...or was he trying to make a point about liberal hypocrisy and diversity?

That's how I read it.

[Brilliant]

I’m sure he meant it. If you buy into the lib argument that the Supreme Court should represent the diversity of America, then this Court does not represent the religious diversity of America, and it is getting less so. 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. But if you’re a liberal and you’re not a hypocrite, then I would think you would have a problem with that.

[ckilmer]

You need to go to downtown washington dc someday and visit some the government departments there. what you’ll see is that blacks and hispanics are over represented as a percentage of their population by 4-5 times. In most departments — its clear that in the next generation most of them will be run by blacks or hispanics.

that’s your tax dollars at work.

[Bernard Marx]

That's how I read it.

Me too.

[Ransomed]

The problem is wacky liberals, no matter the faith or lack of faith.

“for a nation based on Judeo-Christian heritage, a large segment of the population is not represented in ideology of Protestant upbringing.”

Maybe the trend has something to do with all the Protestant presidents.

Freegards

[BloodnGuts]

That’s what I got from it - that the court is getting packed with leftist homos and eshewing our Christian European majority.

I think it has been 50 years since the Dems nominated one.

[joe.fralick]

Re Kagan, I put myself through the ordeal of reading her University of Chicago Law Review article on the free speech cases, to see if her views on hate speech and the like are as dangerous as some say.

I found the article to be pretty non-ideological. My main reaction was that reading her opinions (if she doesn't just let her clerks write them) will be no fun at all. Her writing is punishingly dull and ponderous.

[Clemenza]

The difference between Liberals and Conservatives is that the latter allows for the fact that certain ethnicities are better skilled than others, and that, in a meritocracy, such folks deserve the opportunities available to their talents. We may recognize that the NBA is predominantly black, or that white gentiles are a minority on Ivy League campuses, but we don't see anything that needs to be rectified, as such statistics reflect the facts that certain groups of people disproportionately have certain talents in excess of the general population.

In Pat's case, whenever I've seen him comment on this, it seems to me as he is saying "we have affirmative action against white males in government employment, why not have it in out favor in the Ivies." Such comments wreak of envy and bitterness, which is odd considering 1. Pat attended Columbia, an Ivy League school and 2. Pat is probably one of the few senior citizens not in charge of their own company who is making the amount of money he does as a talking head on a network.

The fact that Scalia is Catholic or that Kagen is Jewish mean little to me. If Scalia's philosophy were rooted in continental Catholic reactionary corporatavism I would not want him on the court, just as I don't want Kagen on the court for her lack of respect for original intent.