Fighting For The Judicial Branch

One of the biggest threats America faces in today’s times are those that come from activist judges creating laws from the bench. Its been a nasty fight, and I think we ended up with some well qualified judges put on the Supreme Court that will work towards upholding the Constitution instead of re-writing it. Hopefully the new make up will cripple much of the efforts of the ACLU to rip up and re-write our founding documents. But the fight isn’t over. Filling the seats of the Circuit courts is important too, lets not let our guard down.

Ronald A. Cass has written an excellent piece on this issue today at Real Clear Politics.

After the high-profile confirmations of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Sam Alito, judicial nominations went into limbo. Today, we’ll see the opening gambits on when and whether that will end.

The reason the confirmation process came to a standstill is simple: Senate Democrats don’t want additional conservatives on the bench and hope to stall votes long enough to keep them off until Democrats can reach the Holy Grail of a Senate majority. That could be a very long time coming, though Democrats always are hopeful that their day is at hand.

It’s less clear why Republicans let the nominations wallow in political purgatory. Perhaps, the politicians were simply reading the tea leaves of public opinion. While filling open seats on federal circuit courts is important, it doesn’t get the attention that Supreme Court nominations do.

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Read the whole thing.

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