My First Choice
Ok, I don’t know jack about judges. But I do know that I was impressed with what Andrew Napolitano said in his interview with Reason:
Chaos in our criminal justice system comes about when the government acts as if it is entitled to a free pass on enforcing the laws. When people who work for the government, whether they’re traffic cops or FBI agents, prosecutors or bureaucrats, act with the self-confidence that they are not obliged to obey the law….
I had a realization that many [law enforcement agents] were lying. Some of them would acknowledge, not to the extent that I would have them charged with perjury, but in the wink and the nod in a conversation with them afterwards, “Well, we almost don’t care if you found out that we kicked in the taillight.” “We knew,” they’d suggest, “from the profile—Mercedes Benz, New York plates, African-American driver, coming off the George Washington Bridge—it was more likely than not that drugs were in there, and we don’t even care.” They took an oath to uphold the Constitution, and they’re violating that oath when they violate the rights of the driver of that car.
I’ve always considered myself a Barry Goldwater Republican. I want the Democrats out of my pocketbook, and I want the Republicans out of my bedroom. I believe that the Constitution and the natural law mandate that the individual is greater than the state and that individual rights are the whole reason for our success in the Western world. Our cultural successes, our enjoyment of freedom, our financial successes, are all due to unleashing individual initiative and guarding and protecting individual liberty.
On many issues, I agree with conservative thought. It’s not society that causes crimes; individuals cause crimes. I believe abortion is murder. I believe the Second Amendment protects an absolute right to keep and bear arms. I believe affirmative action based on race is an absolutely unconstitutional as well as immoral policy. I also believe that government is best which governs least and that the Constitution only gives 18 specific enumerated delegated powers to the federal government.
I think we could do worse. Of course, he did just say the “A” word. Well, forget it, then.
July 1st, 2005 at 4:36 pm
I wont tell Leisher if you wont.
July 1st, 2005 at 5:25 pm
damn, that was sounding good. He’s toast. That damn abortion thing is going to ruin it for the rest of us.
July 1st, 2005 at 11:36 pm
Yup, the a word aborted his nomination right there. It’s funny how a majority of Senators won’t confirm anti-abortion judges because they’re convinced a majority of Senators would vote to ban abortion if Roe were overturned.
July 2nd, 2005 at 7:34 am
He didn’t even have to say the A-word. He works for Fox News, which means the Left would go absolutely apoplectic if he were nominated.
All the more reason to do so, IMO.
My other top two choices:
Alex Kozinski
Janice Rodgers Brown
And in both cases, I’d nominate Eugene Volokh, or maybe Glenn Reynolds, or Andrew Napolitano, to replace them.
July 2nd, 2005 at 11:52 am
I think one of the reasons we’re watching our rights erode is because so many people are still hung up on the individual vs. state dichotomy, and they haven’t noticed a third entity, the corporation, swallowing up both individual and state. I worry about adding another corporatist judge like Breyer to the bench.
You guys are cracking me up with your “A-word” crap. What world do you live in? Have you paid any attention to Bush’s judicial and political nominations over the past five years? Bush has been packing every court, agency, and committee with fundamentalist Christians from his first day in office. You will be getting an “abortion is murder” nomination.
July 2nd, 2005 at 1:06 pm
Corporations wouldn’t be able to screw you anywhere near as much without the gun of the law (government) aiding and abetting them.
July 5th, 2005 at 12:52 pm
Hellbent, just a clarification: SayUncle is a nice, tolerant guy who enjoys debate. I am not. I am a mean, intolerant, opinionated egotist who has little patience with people like you.
I have seen several of your posts on Les Jones’s site, and some here, and frankly I’m not interested in your opinion. Please save us all some grief and refrain from commenting on my posts.
Thank you.