Obama Will Make the Supreme Court Liberal for Decades
Posted on October 28, 2008
This is one of the most important reason you need to get out and vote for McCain!
The net result is that the legal left will once again have a majority on the nation’s most important regulatory court of appeals.
The balance will shift as well on almost all of the 12 other federal appeals courts. Nine of the 13 will probably swing to the left if Mr. Obama is elected (not counting the Ninth Circuit, which the left solidly controls today). Circuit majorities are likely at stake in this presidential election for the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeal. That includes the federal appeals courts for New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and virtually every other major center of finance in the country.
On the Supreme Court, six of the current nine justices will be 70 years old or older on January 20, 2009. There is a widespread expectation that the next president could make four appointments in just his first term, with maybe two more in a second term. Here too we are poised for heavy change.
These numbers ought to raise serious concern because of Mr. Obama’s extreme left-wing views about the role of judges. He believes — and he is quite open about this — that judges ought to decide cases in light of the empathy they ought to feel for the little guy in any lawsuit.
Speaking in July 2007 at a conference of Planned Parenthood, he said: “[W]e need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that’s the criteria by which I’m going to be selecting my judges.”
On this view, plaintiffs should usually win against defendants in civil cases; criminals in cases against the police; consumers, employees and stockholders in suits brought against corporations; and citizens in suits brought against the government. Empathy, not justice, ought to be the mission of the federal courts, and the redistribution of wealth should be their mantra.
In a Sept. 6, 2001, interview with Chicago Public Radio station WBEZ-FM, Mr. Obama noted that the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren “never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society,” and “to that extent as radical as I think people tried to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical.”
He also noted that the Court “didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it has been interpreted.” That is to say, he noted that the U.S. Constitution as written is only a guarantee of negative liberties from government — and not an entitlement to a right to welfare or economic justice.
This raises the question of whether Mr. Obama can in good faith take the presidential oath to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution” as he must do if he is to take office. Does Mr. Obama support the Constitution as it is written, or does he support amendments to guarantee welfare? Is his provision of a “tax cut” to millions of Americans who currently pay no taxes merely a foreshadowing of constitutional rights to welfare, health care, Social Security, vacation time and the redistribution of wealth? Perhaps the candidate ought to be asked to answer these questions before the election rather than after.
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Great choice. I think this opinion points readers in a number of important directions for understanding potential ramifications of (if elected) Obama’s said motivations behind choosing justices. Substantial in both raw facts and opinion. Towards this end (but certainly depending on one’s existing understanding of the legal system), I recommend reading some of the work produced by the Federalist Society, of which Steven G. Calabresi co-founded. Look forward to future related posts. Cheers.
Obama is creating the most divisive class warfare since the American Revolution.
Our American Revolution, our kicking the British out, our Boston Tea Party, all of this was about taxation without representation. Obama is setting himself up to represent only a segment of our society.
Obama claims to represent the middle class and the poor. This is pure deceit on the part of Obama; he is simply promising welfare checks in exchange for votes. Obama promises to lift up our middle class and poor. This will never happen under an Obama regime.
Obama has declared war upon those of us who are hard working and successful. I am not writing the middle class and poor are not hard working; no insult is intended.
Obama believes taking money from the successful then giving this money to others will cure our economic problem. This is plumb stupid. This socialist philosophy does NOT create jobs nor create new wealth. This philosophy only moves money around, only plays musical chairs.
The only cure for our economic problem is creation of new jobs, increasing pay scales, improving productivity and grabbing a larger share of the global market for goods and services.
Adding benefit to this is decreasing government spending and effecting programs which help people with health care costs along with helping people become better educated.
Taking money from the affluent to give to the less affluent will not create new jobs, will not raise pay scales and will not increase our productivity. Nor will this help with health care costs nor help with affordable good education.
Obama playing money musical chairs will prove a horrible financial disaster.
McCain is firm but fair. McCain is offering good common sense.
McCain is offering creation of jobs and opportunity. However, there is a caveat. McCain is saying to America, “I will provide opportunity but you must be willing to work to enjoy benefit.”
Opportunity and hard work, this is our American way.
Obama’s welfare and laziness, this is an insult to our traditional American values.
Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation