This is absolutely terrifying:If Barack Obama is elected president, mutual friends say the best course for Hillary Clinton might be nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court rather than staying in the Senate.Clinton is also talked about as suitable for secretary of state in an Obama administration. The consensus among her friends is that she would not be content forging a lifetime career in the Senate, as Sen. Edward M. Kennedy did after he lost the 1980 presidential nomination.
A footnote: The last confirmed Supreme Court nominee without prior judicial experience was Lewis Powell, a prestigious attorney from Richmond, Va., named by President Richard M. Nixon in 1971. No high court selection has had so modest a legal background as Clinton since President John F. Kennedy named football star Byron (Whizzer) White in 1962.
Of course, it is terrifying because Hillary is an outright liberal politician. The Supreme Court is supposed to be devoid of politics. To date, the left has at least had the decency to pretend to nominate non-political judges. I suppose there would be one commendable thing about a Hillary nomination: the left would finally be admitting that they see the Supreme Court as an extension of the legislature where they need dutiful liberals to legislative their agenda from the bench.
No comments:
Post a Comment