Posted on 08/05/2015 11:12:14 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Before long, there will be some vacancies on the Supreme Court. Americans who care about the relentless expansion of governmental power that’s turning us from a nation of free, self-reliant citizens into a gaggle of supplicants should start thinking about the kind of justice they’d like to see on the Court.
More precisely, they should start thinking about the kind of judicial philosophy they’d like to see.
The nation’s population of “progressives” (i.e., people who believe, contrary to all reason and evidence, that America needs still more government dictates) has had little if any occasion to lament the justices nominated by Democratic presidents. The “liberal” bloc on the Court hardly ever disappoints them.
In contrast, libertarians, conservatives, constitutionalists, and people who just dislike the Nanny State have often lamented the nominees of Republican presidents, including Earl Warren, William Brennan, Sandra Day O’Connor, David Souter, and most recently, John Roberts. Those justices often put their stamp of approval on federal powers that would have left the Founders aghast.
It is imperative that we avoid making similar mistakes in the future. I believe that the most effective way of identifying nominees who won’t turn tail when pressured to vote for unconstitutional power is to find judges who have expressed a coherent philosophy favoring liberty.
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I can’t think of someone who follows the Constitution better than Barrack Obama.
I want his influence on the third branch to be longest most influential in the history of the united states. The presidency is not nearly as powerful as a strong judiciary. Look at the chaos a weak SC has created
Janice Rogers Brown.
Black, female, and conservative as the day is long.
Judge Judy or that black woman TV judge. Give it the gravitas it deserves.
“A solidly conservative federal judge who’s under 50...”
I agree. That judge can stay in there for the next 25 years and hopefully have a major impact.
A state supreme court justice who’s solidly conservative would be a good nominee too...
A President Trump could appoint former Solicitor General Rafel Eduardo “Ted” Cruz to the seat!
Robert Bork died in 2012. I imagine he'd have a hard time making it through the confirmation hearings.
Kate Upton for Ruth Ginsberg. I’d go for that. The downside would be covering those huge tracts o’ land with a black robe.
You beat me to it. Or Scalia, or Thomas.
Janice Rogers Brown
From Wikipedia:
Her libertarian political beliefs have been expressed in her speeches, most notably one she delivered to the Federalist Society at the University of Chicago Law School in 2000. Brown’s speech mentioned Ayn Rand and lamented the triumph of “the collectivist impulse”, in which capitalism receives “contemptuous tolerance but only for its capacity to feed the insatiable maw of socialism.” She argued that “where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates, and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies,” and suggests that the ultimate result for the United States has been a “debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible”.[16]
Her remarks gained particular attention, however, for her thesis that the 1937 court decisions upholding minimum-wage laws and New Deal programs marked “the triumph of our own socialist revolution”, the culmination of “a particularly skewed view of human nature” that could be “traced from the Enlightenment, through the Terror, to Marx and Engels, to the Revolutions of 1917 and 1937.” She called instead for a return to Lochnerism, the pre-1937 view that the Constitution severely limits federal and state power to enact economic regulations. In an exegesis of Brown’s speech that was largely responsible for bringing it to public attention during her confirmation process in 2005, legal-affairs analyst Stuart Taylor Jr. noted, “Almost all modern constitutional scholars have rejected Lochnerism as ‘the quintessence of judicial usurpation of power’”, citing in particular “leading conservatives — including Justice Antonin Scalia, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and former Attorney General Edwin Meese, as well as [Robert] Bork”.[17]
In a speech to the Federalist Society, Brown called the group a “rare bastion (nay beacon) of conservative and libertarian thought” and that the “latter notion made your invitation well-nigh irresistible.”[18]
In the same speech, she gave hints of her philosophical foundations. She described private property as “the guardian of every other right”. (This might have been a reference to a book published late 2007 titled “The Guardian of Every Other Right: A Constitutional History of Property Rights”.) Later in her speech she described collectivism as “slavery to the tribe” and that government was a “leviathan [that] will continue to lumber along, picking up ballast and momentum, crushing everything in its path”.[18]
Ted Cruz
If he doesn’t win presidency, Ted Cruz.
Mike Lee would be an interesting choice.
Out of the Box... how would someone thoughtful like Bobby Jindal work out?
Willett from Texas?
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