…and taking the country with you. I’m talking Supreme Court vacancies, folks. You want proof of Judicial Activism? On the Supreme Court? In the 1960s? Here ya go:
From a memoir about clerking for Justice Goldberg in 1962-63:
Working for him was an eye-opening experience. His first question in approaching a case always was, “What is the just result?†Then he would work backward from the answer to that question to see how it would comport with relevant theory or precedent. It took me a while to get used to that approach. The way I had learned the law at Harvard was that you looked up the answer in a book. The law was composed of “neutral principles†that you could apply to get the proper result, and you never really asked whether it was just or not.
Justice Goldberg opened my consciousness to the fact that the overarching purpose is about justice.
Jesus Christ! Emphasis mine. Well, at least Goldberg was honest about it.
Any of y’all still thinking about not voting for McCain this fall, crap like the above from Hillary/Obama’s nominees is why you will roast in Hell if you don’t. I like my Supreme Court applying neutral principles of law, thank you very much.
h/t Volokh.
Roast in Hell? Egad, sir, enough of the warm fuzzies, already!
Anyway, you’re too late. As a resident of the Left Coast, you’re ALREADY roasting in Hell. Surely, God cannot forgive anyone who would put up with this travesty on His version of life. We are already condemned, sir.