Slog - Comments on McSCOTUS http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/mcscotus There's a stunning four-paragraph riff in yesterday's lead New York Times editorial that shatters the GOP line on "activist" judges. And more importantly, it catalogues the willful lapses, about faces, and hypocritical standards that fell from Republican nominee-in-wating John McCain's mouth during his speech at Wake Forest University Tuesday where he (surprise) pandered to the right wing. In the speech, billed as a definitive statement on his judicial philosophy, McCain cited Bush SC appointees John Roberts and Samuel Alito as models of the kind of "strict-interpretation" judges—i.e., abortion isn't a right—that he would name to the Court. (Never mind that... Copyright 2008 Thu, 08 May 2008 09:24:26 -0800 Thu, 08 May 2008 11:47:08 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle Most of the evil dead who are all that animate the lifeless corpse of the 19 percent deadenders of the GOP base nowadays got their start in Seattle.

Sad, but true.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/mcscotus#c1019672 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/mcscotus#c1019672 2008 Thu, 08 May 2008 09:54:32 -0800 Comment by Trevor What's the solution to conservative right wing ideologue judges? I know! Let's have our Democratic majority broker a "compromise" that would "cement Republican conservative control of the [U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals] for the foreseeable future no matter who is elected president." Just so long as they get to add a Democrat to the permanent minority, that's OK!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/washington/08judges.html

]]> Trevor http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/mcscotus#c1019815 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/mcscotus#c1019815 2008 Thu, 08 May 2008 11:18:48 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Nah, let's just have President Obama nominate Hils for the Supreme Court.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/mcscotus#c1019870 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/mcscotus#c1019870 2008 Thu, 08 May 2008 11:47:08 -0800