Monday, October 31, 2005

Supreme Court Nominee Alito

I wish I had more time to write; this blog could be so much more interesting.

Since I don't have much time, I'll just say this:

I am so incredibly sick and tired of hearing Bush preach from his frickin' soapbox about liberal activist judges and how they 'legislate from the bench'. What exactly does he think his latest conservative activist judge intends to do? While I'm sure Rove & Co. will coin a different term for Bush to use, Alito will do just what Bush claims he won't put a judge up to do, legislate from the bench.

Bush, it is time for some honesty. Can you and your group, for once, stop trying to cover everything up? Step up, 'be a man', and tell us the truth. Tell us that you only think white males are worthy of the Supreme Court. Tell us that you intend to stack the court with conservative men with the intention of overturning Roe v. Wade. Tell us that you intend to make Christianity the national religion before 2008. Tell us that you intend to have mandatory Christian prayer in schools. Tell us that you like setting records with our national debt. For once, please tell us the fucking truth.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Conservative judges won't necessarily legislate from the bench any more than all liberal judges will. But liberal judges certainly are more prone to do it (think of the definition of liberal vs. conservative). The responsibility of judges is to interpret the law, not create or modify laws with their rulings.

Alphadork said...

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you. My purpose was not to say who will legislate from the bench more or less; it was to speak out against Bush's hypocracy and inherent contradictions. Honestly, "legislate from the bench" is a cooked-up term that can be interpreted as "interprets laws in a manner I do not agree with."

To help clarify, my point is that Bush constantly attacks "liberal" judges for interpreting the law in manners that change the way the law is looked at or upheld. Yet, now he has nominated someone who will do just that which Bush speaks out about, but it is OK in this instance because he will change the laws the way Bush wants them to be changed. That doesn't seem right to me.