Mark Levin discussed Judge Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee with Ed Whelan, Senior Editor at the National Review Online, Bench Memos contributor, and the President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
While the outcome is not likely to change, the Republicans on the Committee need to keep up what they did today.
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People voted for Barack Obama… independents, republicans and even some purported conservatives thinking that he would govern as a centrist despite a past Illinois and US political record that gave him the distinction of being the most liberal of all senators. Now those same people along with democrats and even some liberals are surprised and frightened regarding how quickly and radically he is changing America. Sotomeyor was so well prepped to be questioned by the conservative elements of the senate that if this were 1787 James Madison might step aside and let her write the Constitution.
She concludes that the Founders who, at the time it was written, had certain intentions when they wrote the document. Except perhaps for the Third Amendment those people would have written the Constitution the same way at any time and for all time. Should the First Amendment be changed? Considering that the conservative majority have recently worked hard to undue the damage that the more liberal elements inflicted on that Amendment when they concluded that McCain-Feingold was Constitutional I would suspect that Sotomeyor would not have a problem in restricting speech based upon her surmising that founding principles were not intended at the time to deal with unforeseeable changing circumstances, such as aggressive well funded lobbyists, and so would side with restricting the most sacred of all free speech… political speech.
How about the taking clause of the Fifth Amendment and the Kelo Decision permitting the confiscation of real property by a sovereign, such as the State of Connecticut (or worse yet the local New London government), based upon transferring the deed to whoever will contribute more taxes to the collector?
We know where she stands on the Second Amendment. That position may have been true prior to 1868 but the Fourteenth Amendment changed its applicability to apply to the states as well as the federal government.
Unless she had an epiphany after reading “Men in Blackâ€, while preparing for the current questioning, the recent election of a President, partially based upon diversity, should provide an outstanding example of why we need to understand that nothing, and I mean nothing, trumps a previous performance history. There is no redo from this point forward. This President will hopefully be out in four years and certainly in eight. Many of us may not live long enough to see Sotomeyor step aside but our children and grandchildren may very well have to live under the consequences and pervasive weight of her decisions. The nomination and confirmation of a Supreme Justice requires the best candidates and the strictest vetting since this branch of government has defied even the intentions of the Founding Fathers and their founding principles. It is no longer equal and coequal, because the final arbitrator, the Supreme Court, can not only restrict and undo what the other two branches do but most of all, when it is wrong, there is no other recourse.
Task, your first line contains an error. You said people voted for Obama based on what they were thinking. I disagree. No thinking person voted for Obama. He got elected because people felt he was cool or some such nonsense.
MLF,
You are certainly right, but carefully read what I said. I restricted the possibility of thinking to independents, republicans and some conservatives. While I agree that most independents are camouflaged libs and that clearly lends support to your statement I excluded all dems and liberals because I know, and I know you and everyone else on this site knows, that whomever else voted for Obama voted for form over substance. Interestingly when Obama supported Odinga in Kenya the slogan used was “Vote for Change”. As Ed Koch once stated: “The people have spoken and now they will pay”.
Unfortunately, what I did not say is that some libs did actually think. They thought about how delicious it would be to snatch away your liberty and freedom.