Comments on: McCain Makes a Promise About Judges

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By: ted goldman

ted goldman — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:11:25 +0000

McCain promises?

Unless he thinks we’re all fools, only actions will make a difference.

Such as:

McCain goes to Senate floor and demands a national identity card.

(Fat Chance of that)

McCain states on Senate floor the names of possible future Supreme Court appointments.

McCain and his “gang of 14″

propose a sweeping tax reduction bill.

McCain admits that his campaign finance reform bill was a failure, and a joke.

McCain go into a Senate closet and, in the Senator’s own words, “go hump himself”.

By: shua nedy

shua nedy — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:36:04 +0000

For all those who are concerned McCain will use support for CFR as some kind of litmus test – is it possible to do this: In the confirmation hearings, the nominee can be asked if he had made any commitments to the President on how he would rule on this issue.
Is that something that could be done?

By: Gekkobear

Gekkobear — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:17:03 +0000

Could he maybe pick Judges who would avoid “interpreting” the Constitution instead of ones who would avoid interpreting “laws” as he has said in every press release including this one?

Sure it would jettison his baby CFR, but if he said that (and I believed him) I might actually vote for him.

Right now? Not so much. He’s got a lot of history attacking the Constitution and damaging our rights with CFR and his 2005 lawsuit against the FEC.

He’s going to have to actually acknowledge the holes he’s punched in the Constitution before I’d trust him to fix them.

By: gregh

gregh — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:04:51 +0000

Excuse me but McCain’s statement is about as blatent an admission as you’re going to get that he wants to nominate justices who will uphold whatever legislation Congress passes without regard to whether they view it as un-Constitutional or not, specif: McCain-Feingold.
In Wisconsin Right to Life, four justices (Souter, Ginsburg, Stevens and Breyer) agreed with McCain’s view that Congress had acted in accord with the Constitution when they passd McCain-Feingold.

By: Eric R. Ashley

Eric R. Ashley — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:45:58 +0000

Maybe I lack poetry in my soul, but that is simply not clear enough.

I’m not sure what he’s saying. And I don’t have the rose-colored glasses that seem so prominent in the liberal wing of the R party.

“John McCain walked across a street, and started with his right foot….He MUST be a conservative!”

Now, I’ll go take the meds our host has prescribed us. Anything to take my mind off the coming liberal created crack-up of the R party.

By: Tom Grey

Tom Grey — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:12:26 +0000

What the anger at McCain should be leading to action is in more focus on the 100 Senators, and especially those up for re-election this year, and most especially on the Dems.

Neither McCain nor Obama is really a Super Savior, and the many other Congress members are more important than the difference between McCain and other Reps (including Ron Paul, on judges).

I’m not convinced the Gang of 14 was so bad, in that it did get Roberts & Alito confirmed. It wasn’t great, how many other judges are still waiting?

Of course, I haven’t yet seen the Professor note a case where he thinks Miers would have voted differently than Alito. As an anti-elitist, I kind of liked Miers not being a judge.

Many Rep elitists are also anti-Huckabee. But majority pro-Christisn pro-life places are the best hope to get Senators who are pro-life judges. And importance the good Professor, a pretty strong anti-Huck voice, seems to always overlook.

By: Eric Baum

Eric Baum — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:39:51 +0000

I intend to nominate judges who have proven themselves worthy of our trust that they take as their sole responsibility the enforcement of laws made by the people’s elected representatives, judges of the character and quality of Justices Roberts and Alito, judges who can be relied upon to respect the values of the people whose rights, laws and property they are sworn to defend.
Funny, I don’t see the word “constitution” here. As I read this, it says: I have a litmus test. I won’t appoint any Justice who might overturn McCain-Feingold or otherwise apply the constitution to rein in whatever lawmakers care to do.
Seems to me, McCain is taking the conservatives for idiots.

By: Danaidh

Danaidh — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:07:02 +0000

Wishful thinking complete with a straw man argument. Not very persuasive.

I’ll be voting for a third party candidate this year.