No. He ought to throw curve ball and announce liberal candidates to enhance his campaign.
No, he should not go full retard, but there are some conservative Democrat judges that he could pick, and I think Merrick Garland was one that Obama thought would get through the senate specifically because he is not an ideological liberal (Garland that is)
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He struck down the DC handgun laws and is pro-liberty and 1st Amendment, though he has shown preference for the governments power and regulatory authority.
That does not make him a screaming Marxist idiot.
The appellate court judge blends a penchant for judicial restraint associated with conservatives with a deference to executive power more typical of liberals.
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Those decisions might suggest Garland is a doctrinaire liberal — the left’s answer to Antonin Scalia. But in fact, the appellate court judge blends a penchant for judicial restraint more frequently associated with conservatives with a deference to executive power more typical of liberals.
“He has a reputation for being a judge’s judge rather than a liberal’s liberal,” according to Yale law professor Akhil Amar, who said his “very best students every year all apply to him” for clerkships, regardless of whether they’re liberal or conservative.
As far back as 1985, Garland laid down his judicial philosophy in a Harvard Law Review essay. Garland pleaded for judges to support greater “agency discretion” instead of imposing their own views. His reluctance to interfere with federal agencies from the bench mark him as a moderate; his willingness to live with the more statist result marks him, in most instances, as liberal....
“I don’t think Garland looks at who is president,” said Chapman University law professor Ronald Rotunda, a conservative. “I think he’s deferential to executive power.”
In his Harvard Law Review article, Garland wrote that Congress had “plainly” left up to executive agencies “the choice of the best means of effectuating [their] statutory purposes.” He opposed judges imposing their own desired policy outcome. “Adoption of a ‘best’ policy requirement,” Garland wrote, “would all but guarantee substitution of the court’s judgment for that of the agency.”
Garland has largely followed through on that philosophy of restraint....
