Posted on 12/26/2002 12:13:55 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:59:50 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Hard-rock conservative Republicans for years have berated the U.S. Supreme Court for dictating controversial social policies by constitutional fiat. Abortion and school prayer are exemplary. Their sound track is familiar: Judicial restraint is the hallmark of enlightened judging; judicial activism means judicial rule like Platonic Guardians, thus shriveling government by the consent of the governed.
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And anyway, Republicans using the courts to further their agenda of saving traditional America from the scumbags is a welcome switch. You just know that if a white Republican proposed half the things that Ward Connerly proposes, he would be buried as a "racist" by this writer, Bruce Fein, and by every scumbag liberal newsroom from coast to coast.
No thanks. Let the courts handle it.
Actually, I think he is arguing the opposite. He's tough to follow but I believe he is chiding Republicans for not pursuing a colorblind society legislatively. He says that instead, Republicans are hoping for relief from the courts in a couple of racial preference cases.
"Republicans in Congress are too gutless to take a stand against affirmative action and want the Court to do it for them. Which makes them fans of the judicial activism they hypocritically denounce."
The point isn't too different from what we hear on FR all the time, it's just expressed in 'educationese'.
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