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It Must Be the Heat: This Nominee Drives 'em Crazy
By Paul Greenberg, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
August 1, 2005
In the strange fight over the confirmation of John Roberts as the next justice of the Supreme Court, perhaps the strangest comment yet had to be the one from Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana on CNN's "Inside Politics":
"You wouldn't run for the United States Senate or for governor or for anything else without answering people's questions about what you believe. And I think the Supreme Court is no different." Huh?
Being nominated for a seat on the Supreme Court of the United States is no different from running for the United States Senate or a governorship or anything else? Because a candidate for the Senate or governor is expected to tell us how he feels about some hot-button issue--like abortion, for example--we should expect a nominee for the Supreme Court to do the same? Of course not.
A nominee for the court shouldn't be taking stands on political issues precisely because he is notrunning for a legislative or executive office. Instead he's been nominated for a seat on the highest court in the land, and there is a difference, a big one.
Unlike a senator or a governor, a justice of the Supreme Court is sworn to do impartial justice. Which means he shouldn't even come close to prejudging issues that are likely to come before him.
for full article:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/greenberg080105.asp
By Paul Greenberg, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
August 1, 2005
In the strange fight over the confirmation of John Roberts as the next justice of the Supreme Court, perhaps the strangest comment yet had to be the one from Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana on CNN's "Inside Politics":
"You wouldn't run for the United States Senate or for governor or for anything else without answering people's questions about what you believe. And I think the Supreme Court is no different." Huh?
Being nominated for a seat on the Supreme Court of the United States is no different from running for the United States Senate or a governorship or anything else? Because a candidate for the Senate or governor is expected to tell us how he feels about some hot-button issue--like abortion, for example--we should expect a nominee for the Supreme Court to do the same? Of course not.
A nominee for the court shouldn't be taking stands on political issues precisely because he is notrunning for a legislative or executive office. Instead he's been nominated for a seat on the highest court in the land, and there is a difference, a big one.
Unlike a senator or a governor, a justice of the Supreme Court is sworn to do impartial justice. Which means he shouldn't even come close to prejudging issues that are likely to come before him.
for full article:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/greenberg080105.asp
