McCain unveals plan for Judiciary

by minnesotaryan, Tue May 06, 2008 at 04:48:32 PM EST

I'm sure everyone knows this, but somehow I keep seeing people talk about how terrible Hillary/Obama is and how they won't vote for Hillary/Obama if he/she steals the election from it's rightful owner Hillary/Obama, so I just thought I'd post the obvious:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/06/m ccain.judges/index.html

Now goddammit quit planning on staying home or voting for McCain if your candidate doesn't win the primary!  Keep fighting now, but please think of the children! Why won't someone please think of the children?




Tags: supreme court, mccain, children, trick daddy (all tags)

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Re: McCain unveals plan for Judiciary (none / 0)

Short, but essential diary.

Yep - to all those who want to cry and take their ball home.
This is probably the most important aspect of the 2008 election.

Take a clothespin come November,
But vote Dem.


by johnnygunn on Tue May 06, 2008 at 04:55:05 PM EST

Re: McCain unveals plan for Judiciary (none / 0)

I saw this earlier, thanks for the diary.  Apparently, the two co-chairs of McCain's legal team, who presumably would have the most influence over McCain's judicial appointments, are:

Ted Olson, former Solicitor General under Bush who argued Bush v. Gore before the Supreme Court, probably the leading name in the conservative legal establishment that gave us Roberts and Alito; and

Sam Brownback, a Senator so wingnutty he makes Rick Santorum look centrist.

This is just one more example of how McCain's reputation as a "maverick" could not be more wrong.  On judges, one of the most important issues to the Republican base, he's going to follow the party line in lockstep, just as Bush did.

Even if you think Obama might nominate mushy centrists, or Clinton might nominate corporate-friendly DLCers, there's going to be a tremendous gap between the judges they would appoint and the Roberts/Alito clones we'd get from McCain.  If the courts matter to you, the decision in November should not be close.


"Another problem we have...is that in election years we behave somewhat as primitive peoples do at the time of the full moon." --Harry Truman
by Steve M on Tue May 06, 2008 at 04:57:44 PM EST

The Indiana ruling was enough for me (none / 0)

It's pretty clear that the Supreme Court is starting to be staffed by people who don't even believe in the court's power to make precident... which, if you ask me, is one of their most important jobs... don't take it me, take it from Brown vs. the Board of Education.

I wrote a diary earlier today on Rep. Keith Ellison speaking out against these jackasses.  It's fresh on my mind.

Thanks for the diary.


In this avalanche, the pebbles get to vote.
by Dracomicron on Tue May 06, 2008 at 05:28:58 PM EST


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