Voting record clouds Obama's judge picks

It's about time we balance the legal scales

Goes around, comes around. When one party lowers the bar, they have to limbo under it eventually.

For the last two Republican administrations, Congressional Republicans have acted more like Democrats than Reagan Republicans. I hope they change. Judges are the most important issue facing us under an Obama administration. There is no history of Republicans holding tight against the most liberal nominations. So quite frankly, I think my hopes will be dashed, and we will get judges who ignore the constitution for generations.

It would be nice if the Republicans fought back, but I am not holding my breath waiting.

"It's about time we balance the legal scales" Legal "scales" are not balanced through political affiliations, they're balanced through observance to, and abidance of, established law, including the rights and limitations enumerated by the Constitution. Judges are not suppose to establish "rights" like abortion and Gay Marriage, that's left up to Congress through the legislative process. When the courts begin to establish laws, they tip the balance of government in their favor.

dittoman wrote: Goes around, comes around. When one party lowers the bar, they have to limbo under it eventually. ____________ Well put. Happy Thansgiving.

I hope Republicans are every bit as cooperative on Obama nominations as Democrats were with Bush nominations.

What hogwash. In the first place, the use of the filibuster to oppose judicial appointments was perfected by Senate Republicans during the Clinton administration, killing far more nominations than were affected during the 12 years of the Bush administration nominations. In the second place, even a cursory read of the panel discussion quoted above makes perfectly obvious that Obama was not complainint about the Warren Court. He was providing an analysis. The same transcript reveals that Obama, in fact, thinks courts should NOT be the focus of any effort to effect redistribution; indeed the distribution being discussed was not about wealth at all but about funding of school districts. This is worse distortion than the folks at Fox!

To 33rdSt - You're obviously misinformed. There is not a single instance of the GOP filibustering Clinton nominees on the Senate floor. Do even understand what a filibuster is? If so, can you give me one example of one Clinton nominee who was filibustered? Not until this administration have we seen completely partisan filibustering any federal judicial nominee in US history. Sorry, Obamabot, but that's a fact.

The elitist illuminati will side with him, that's a given. He sided with all the liberals in the Senate, so it will be the same now.