That’s the Point
- 05.06.2008 - 6:22 PMIn the back and forth between John McCain and the Democrats over today’s speech on judges, Barack Obama’s campaign chief uttered this unintentionally incriminating comment:
Barack Obama has always believed that our courts should stand up for social and economic justice, and what’s truly elitist is to appoint judges who will protect the powerful and leave ordinary Americans to fend for themselves.
Actually, judges aren’t supposed to stand up for some poorly defined notion of social–let alone economic–justice. The job of federal court judges is to interpret the Constitution and statutes. As for letting people “fend for themselves,” there are two other branches of government out there (you’ve heard of them, maybe?) which spend quite a bit of time attempting to achieve social fairness and practicing economic redistribution.
So, if McCain’s staffers were smart, they’d respond to David Axelrod’s confession that his boss believes in judicial imperialism with: “See, told you so.”
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May 6th, 2008 at 7:33 PM
Mullahs of the west.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:48 PM
How I wish judges would leave me alone to fend for myself.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:53 PM
I would be so thrilled if a McCain Presidency could nominate a couple more John Roberts to the SC.
May 6th, 2008 at 10:41 PM
Please, can we get the Democrats on the record like this a little more often…
Except it does scare me a little, because many Americans agree with Axelrod’s sentiment when it works in their favor.
Unfortunately, many of my fellow Americans don’t understand the separation of powers and checks and balances, in the manner they work under our Constitution. Sad.